What a crazy day it has been in the world of Android and Google. Our homepage is flooded with announcement posts from the many new things Google showed off. The keynote speech had everything: new designs, new products, new platforms, and even some protesters. Googlers talked for nearly three hours about many exciting new things. If you didn’t have time to watch it all you can catch up now.
The full keynote speech is now available on YouTube to watch in full. Here are some of the things to watch out for:
- Android has 1 billion active users in the past 30 days (and other interesting numbers from IO)
- Google shows off new “Material Design” in Android L [VIDEO]
- Google responds to Apple’s shoddy adoption rate numbers with claim that 93% of Android users get new features
- Android ‘L’ migrates to ART runtime, abandons Dalvik
- Android Wear demoed on the LG G Watch, shows new features
- Samsung Gear Live smartwatch announced; available to order alongside LG G Watch later today
- Android TV announced as Google’s next evolution of the smart television
- Chromebooks can now run Android apps and mirror notifications
- Google unveils Android Auto, first supported automobiles arrive later this year [VIDEO]
- Google announces exciting new features for Chromecast at Google IO 2014
- Android for Work to bring KNOX-based security and improved device management for enterprise
- Google Fit gets formally announced at I/O
- Google I/O attendees receive not one, but two Android Wear devices
3 hours? Much rather read, thanks guys.
Awesome