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First Day Event Summary of Google I/O

First Day Event Summary of Google I/O

AndroidNova.org proudly brings you a summary of what;s launched/covered at Google I/O conference on 15 may 2013.Hold a deep breath as Google Entertains you with their breathtaking updates.Lets start the summary from Google Play Game services.

 

Google Made the  Games much more better

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Any gaming platform has its own social network, and Google’s cannot be left behind. Your Play Games identity will be managed by—you guessed it—Google+, but that’ll bring a whole bunch of social features to the table. The new app includes matchmaking and mulitplayer game options, an achievement system, saves that sync between devices linked to your account, and leaderboards in both “global” and “friends only” flavors. Basically, everything you’d expect to find rolled into a console gaming experience, for this generation anyway.

Of course, these features will only apply to Play-powered games, which will be tagged with a little controller-shaped badge for your identification convenience. Google Play Games will be lauching to Froyo+ device today, via a Google services update.

Better Google Maps with great battery backup and awesomely accurate location service

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Fused Location Provider is a new feature present in Google maps which will use all your phone’s sensors to find your location. Google’s claims that the location mode will use less than one percent of batter per hour when activated. However, we don’t know what  battery capacity Google’s talking about, and also that it would be an awesome achievement.

Second best about maps is improved geofencing. This is a an extreme leap in the app current update. since it will let your phone know when you enter an area that it should turn on functions, or perform certain tasks, but Google didn’t say much more than that it’s working on it. It’s been a big need on Android for a while now, though, so it’s encouraging.

And lastly is a smart detection of activity, which means your accelerometer will know when you’re walking, running, biking, or driving. Nice feature for people interested in activites where enormous movement is involved.

Google Play Music Subscriptions

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You can now buy a music subscription from Google.Google Play Music subscription  launches in the US today. It costs $10 per month. Everybody gets a 30-day free trial, if you are early birdie then only 8$.

During today’s Google I/O keynote, Google introduced All Access, which it is better for music discovery than its competitors like spotify. At first, it seems like a simple on-demand-meets-radio service with the personalization options you would expect. It works on phones, tablets and web browsers.

From a design and UX perspective, the innovation comes from the degree to which it’s easy to switch between the hands-on and hands-off experiences. If you don’t know what you want to listen to you can just hit “Listen Now” and start listening to something like we do for FM Radios or internet Radios ,”hear whats being played on air”.

The best part of the offer is You can get to keep the awesome features that came with Google Music. They’re totally integrated. It’s on-demand music, radio, and online storage locker for your personal collection all in one place.that’s icing on the chocalate cake for us

Google has never tried  a streaming music answer to services like Spotify and SoundCloud. Google has the infrastructure to make this sound service a success. We’ll have to wait and see which service comes out on top.

Recon Instrument’s Jet: Google Glass by a third party manufacturer

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Three years ago Recon Instruments came out with one of the first goggles with a HUD.  And today at I/O, Recon is debuting the Jet, a Google Glass-like set of shades that the company says is comparable to a tablet or smartphone (or Glass).

We don’t have much specifications about Jet other than a set of specs that include:

Wi-Fi, GPS, a dual-core processor, ANT+, Bluetooth, GPS, a HD camera and multiple sensors.Recon claims to have native apps built that allow users to browse the web, stream video, connect to Facebook, keep track of your activities and the like. 

Samsung Galaxy S4 Oppa Google Style!!!

 

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Whatever Google does it does that in style. Yeah that what it proved with the Google Layered Samsung Galaxy S4 ie S4 Google Edition. If you have been an regular and advanced android user then you might have noticed that bloatwares like Touchwiz ,Htc Sense slow you phone down. Google understood this and released it own version of the Samsung Galaxy S4. Yes. The samsung galaxy S4 is the new Nexus. The phone will be launched on June and will comprise of latest Android 4.2 Jellybean.

The new S4 with pure Google costs $649. It will be available on Google playstore from June. Being a Nexus now Samsung Galaxy s4 will receive all the android updates like the other Nexus Devices.  Samsung galaxy s4 is the first phone withexynos octa ie 8core processor(though 4 cores cud run simultaneously) packed with a 2GB of ram and Full HD display. The main feature of this s4 is that it would bootloader unlocked and factory unlocked thus custom rom development will be awesome.

 

 

Google Play for Education

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Google Play for Education sorts apps by grade level and subject matter, making it easy for teachers to find exactly what they want to teach to their student. It can also push content to any associated tablets—think books, lessons, and relevant YouTube videos—all at once, through the same mechanism.

But this feature requires every student to have a Google Account, which means they’re more likely to use Google’s other services and become entangled in Google’s cloud environment. It would be insanely wrong to run Play for Education without student accounts, and there’s nothing wrong with marketing your products to people freely. But it’s worth noting that the sooner you start leaning on Google for your apps and content, the harder it is to switch down the line if you’re so inclined.

Google Play for Education launches this fall , while app submissions will be accepted as soon as this summer.

Google Hangouts the new era of unified messaging


The long-speculated Babel all-in-one chat service has finally been revealed as Hangouts.

Google Talk, Hangouts, Voice, Google+ messenger: all of it is finally integrated into one monster of a unified chat service. Taking on the Google Hangouts name does make sense, too, since Google has been recently for trying to add as many users onto Google+ as they can.

Users finally get a synchronized chat across virtually every single one of your devices, with the ability to go back through chat history, delete messages, and grab files on every single one of them. You can hold group chats with any number of friends, and just like the Hangouts you know and love, you can also move straight into video chat from the text based or image based hangout.

What’s more, the new Hangout version will be hitting multiple platforms, coming  on Android, Chrome, iOS and of Gmail.Sorry! blackberry users.

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Published on: February 16, 2013
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As if the horrifying wave of trojans affecting Android devices was not enough, Google is also sending users’ personal information to Google Play developers without permission – a massive privacy violation if there ever was one.

Concerns over this possible Google privacy issue have emerged after an Australian app developer; Dan Nolan discovered that he had access to the personal information of users who downloaded his Android app in Google Play.

So what information does Google Play actually give to developers? Well according to Nolan who is the developer of ‘Paul Keating Insult Generator’, he has a list in his developer dashboard of all the buyers of his app along with their full name, billing zip code (sometimes the town as well) and email address.

The image below shows a broad overview of what developers see when you buy an application from Google play.

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While Google’s terms of service (ToS) clearly state that personal information is required to be provided, and that it will share address and personal information if you purchase a subscription to a magazine. Both app developers and consumers agree to this sharing of personal information by accepting the ToS. Google’s privacy policy says what information is collected but does not detail how personal information is shared with developers after an app purchase.

According to Nolan,

“such information is enough for developers to track down and harass users who left negative reviews”. 

Describing the issue as a massive oversight by Google, Nolan has asked Google to fix the issue immediately.

Let us know what you think about this issue in the comments below.

Android closes gap on Apple in apps race; expected to hit 1 million apps by June

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Published on: January 22, 2013

The ‘number of apps’ is still the defining factor of a mobile ecosystem, and plays a major role in tempting people in switching to a different operating system. Apple and Google have always been in this app war but previously Apple always had the head start with its App store.

But according to a new report from The Sociable, the number of apps on Google Play, the new avatar of the Android Market, is estimated to have touched 800,000 this month, that’s a shade more than 775,000 available on Apple’s App Store. Google had actually got close enough with 700,000 apps in October.

The Google App development is growing at a faster rate than the iOS. It took about 2 years from the launch of the Android Market for Google to pull together 100,000 apps, and new predictions say that about 2.5 years after hitting that milestone, and with such pace the rebranded Play Store is expected to hit 1 million apps by June 2013. Hurray!

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If we all need 1 Million apps and if all those apps are useful or even functional is another question but hey, congratulations Android! So if you want to be able to have access to this wonderful soon to be one million Android App store, get yourself a nice Android Phone if you don’t own one already.

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After trolling the Indian developers by removing India from the app merchants list in September.Google has now  some really good news for Indian Android App Developer.Over the last year, Android device activation in India have jumped more than 400%, thanks to low cost android devices and the buzz created by Samsung,Reliance regarding Android OS, this phenomenon has bought millions of new users to Google Play and driving huge increases in app downloads.Google also provided  some hint  its Play Store statistics yesterday

In the last six months,Google Play Store statistics suggest that,  Android users in India downloaded more apps than in the previous three years combined, and India has raced ahead to become the fourth-largest market worldwide for app downloads. to allow developers gain from this growth
from 19th October y, developers in India can sell paid applications, in-app products, and subscriptions in Google Play, with monthly payouts to their local bank accounts.

They can take advantage of all of the tools offered by Google Play to monetize their products in the best way for their businesses,.

If you are an Android developer based in India, you can get started right away by signing in to your Developer Console and setting up a Google Checkout merchant account. If your apps are already published as free, you can monetize them by adding in-app products or subscriptions. For new apps, you can publish the apps as paid, in addition to selling in-app products or subscriptions.

After preparing  your apps and in-app products, you can price them in any available currencies, publish, and then receive payouts and financial data in your local currency. Visit the developer help center for complete details.

Along with seller support, Google also adding buyer’s currency support for India. We encourage developers everywhere to visit your Developer Console as soon as possible to set prices for your products in Indian Rupees and other new currencies.

Some parts of this content are sourced from Google Blog

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Published on: October 8, 2012

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Google’s Android 4.1 JellyBean update released last summer was too good to be honest and with Project Butter, gone were the days of a laggy UI for which Android was always mocked for. And now with the Android 4.2 release reportedly next month, we are in for a real treat, according to AndroidandMe.

According to a report posted by AndroidandMe, which seems to be getting hold of a lot of Nexus information these days, Android 4.2 will be packed with Project Roadrunner, an improved Play Store , Customization Center, enhanced Google Now, revamped stock video player etc. Now lets see what they actually are,

New Customization Center

Customization has always been Android’s strong point and it’s counterpart iOS’s headache. Well it’s going to get even more better with the new Customization Center. Sounds kind of like the theme engine that’s been in CyanogenMod based ROMs for quite some time now.

This is going to the place where average users will be able to customize new ringtones, language packs, background, launchers etc and do basic level modifications. The possibilities are endless with the range of options provided by the Google Play Store. There are two new features: templates that change the appearance of all (newly introduced) dynamic icons at once, and post filters that change the appearance of the whole UI – something like Instagram.

This approach will give Google the ability to update multiple devices more quickly without having to wait for manufacturer skins. OEMs, on the other hand, will be able to update their custom overlay in the Customization Center on their own time, where consumers can later download the UI if they so choose to.

By the sound of it, Google seems to have finally provided a solution to the manufactures that shall allow for consumers to update their base Android operating system, without having to wait for their respective OEMs.

New Project Roadrunner

If Project Butter was about a snappy and lag free UI operating at 60fps on sufficient hardware, then Project Roadrunner is about battery life.

With many Android devices getting quad-core processors, Google is looking to supplement the better specs to play nice with software that doesn’t command so much battery.

Hopefully, Project Roadrunner will enhance battery life the same way that Project Butter enhanced the overall responsiveness in Android 4.1.

Updated Google Play Store

There are reports about addition of new features like personalized search, optional promotional campaigns with notification center integration, more billing options, and easier in-app micro-transactions. Something that will help developers generate more revenues hopefully.

Enhanced Google Now

Google Now in Android 4.1 vs SIRI in iOS was a good battle, but not when it came to system level functions. Now in Android 4.2, users might be able to instruct Google Now to adjust volume, brightness and turn Bluetooth off/on. It’ll extend well beyond a feature that accesses stuff on the Web, it’ll now be a tool that easily takes care of simple functions for an average user.

Updated Video Player

The stock video player app is set for a major redo and is set to provide new APIs for other video services to tie in. AndroidandMe believes this to be a part of a bigger media streaming service that Google is soon preparing to offer.

Conclusions

There is a possibility of these being limited only to Nexus branded devices and standrad devices being left out.

All of these features are expected to be announced by Google at a joint event with LG next month, where they are expected to unveil the first smartphone certified by the overhauled Nexus program – the LG Optimus G Nexus.

Source: AndroidandMe

Stay tuned to www.androidnova.org for more details to come.

Whether you’re looking for directions, checking email or sharing a picture with friends, apps are now an indispensable part of life. And if you’re using Android, it all starts with Google Play, home to 675,000 apps and games. That’s a lot of choices. Google Play has crossed 25 billion downloads of those 675,000 apps, and to celebrate that, they are offering some great discounts for the next five days.

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If you are new to Android, or if you are already an android user and you wanted to download some apps or games that you really like but could not do that because it was too expensive or you thought it was too much for that app so here is your chance, you might want to take advantage of the upcoming sale on the Google Play store.

We do not have the full list of the apps that will be available for this sale but  Google says it would include the apps from top developers including Gameloft, Electronic Arts, Rovio, runtastic, Full Fat and more. They all will just be available for 25 cents ( Isn’t that awesome ? ). And they will also be offering special collections like 25 movies you must own, 25 banned books, 25 albums that changed the world and our 25 top selling magazines, all at special prices.

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According to Google “ Every day you’ll be able to choose from a collection of apps from some of the world’s top developers including Gameloft, Electronic Arts, Rovio, runtastic, Full Fat and more. And all for just 25 cents. We’ll also be offering some special collections like 25 movies you must own, 25 banned books, 25 albums that changed the world and our 25 top selling magazines, all at special prices. Visit Google Play a little later today to check them out.”

“Twenty-five billion is more than twice the distance, in miles, that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has travelled since its launch 35 years ago. It’s the amount of time, in minutes, that have passed since some of our earliest ancestors began to set foot in Europe. And now, thanks to all of you, it’s a Google Play milestone. We look forward to the next 25 billion.”

I’ve already purchased a few of my favorite apps including Gameloft’s Asphalt 7 for a mere 25 cents ;) Its your time now go grab all your favorite apps.

Cheers !

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Howdy Readers,

At first news broke out at that rockstar’s Max Payne (add play store link) is now 99 cents or 50 Indian rupees at the google play store. It could have been a move to promote the game which didn’t get great reviews from users. Well now it now turns out that games and apps are starting to get discounted prices as well. That means the end of summer sale is back and it’s making its debut in the new look google play store. Most the include gameloft games and popular 3rd party keyboard app swiftkey 3. Click Here  for all the discounted apps. More apps and games will be soon added to that list. Most of the discounted apps should be priced between Rs. 49 to Rs. 100. So what are you waiting for? Go get ‘em and make the most of the Google play store end of summer sale.

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