Notes from Google IO 2015

1. May 27 – 29, 2015
Diana Laboy-Rush
GOOGLE IO 2015

2. • “We are in the moment of mobile, 600
million people adopted a smart phone
in 2014”
• Google’s goal = Solving problems for
everyone. Putting technology and
computer science to work for global
problems. At scale so everyone can
use them!
• “We want technology to work at scale
for everyone in the world”
KEYNOTE – PRODUCT LAUNCHES AND UPDATES

3. 8 of 10 phones shipped are
android phones
Technologies of Focus
• Android wear
• Android Auto
• Android-Tv
• Chrome cast
COMPUTING PLATFORMS / ANDROID

4. • Customize phones through App
permissions.
• Location,
• camera,
• microphone,
• Grant permission when use case
calls for it.
• Can see ALL permissions
• Updates are seamless to user
M DEVELOPER PREVIEW, NEW FEATURES

5. • User experience for tapping
links
• Chrome custom
tabs example
Pinterest user
• Link from within App to
another app
• Weblink from inside an
app.
• Apps can auto verify with
server link from the app
M SDK UPDATES

6. • simplicity,
• security,
• choice.
Virtual card # is stored and
used. Leading banking
institutions, and mobile
carriers on board to support.
ANDROID PAY

7. • Glanceable,
• actionable,
• effortless.
• 7 different watches, Samsung Gear,
Asus, etc.
• Always on screens to TELL TIME
• Always on Apps! Always just a
glance away.
• Wrist gestures to flip through apps
ANDROID WEAR!

8. Demo Apps on Wear:
• Four square, geofencing
• Uber, ok google
• City maps.
• Developers are free to develop on top
• 4000 apps developed specifically for
androidwear!
• #androidwear is about choice, choice
in straps and apps, wear what you
want, AND build what you want!
ANDROID WEAR!

9. • “When does IT open? When does MY
plane leave?”
• Answers “Here are the nearest gas
stations.”
•
• The Knowledge Graph is Google's
resource to give you the information
you need when and where you need it!
•
• Action is GETTING STUFF DONE.
Proactively access Apps in Google
Now
GOOGLE NOW
CONTEXT : Where you are means you need different things.

10. GOOGLE NOW
Your smart phone can always be smarter.
• Now on Tap! Takes advantage of M
functionality.
• “What is HIS real name?”
• Natural language, bringing you
answers proactively. Example: Text
from a friend,
• I don't know much about the movie,
Tomorrowland. Tap and hold! Cast
members, IMDB, Trailer on web
• Demo included a text from husband
about dry cleaning. Tap and hold to get
directions.
• Google returns answers, reach and re
engage with users!

11. • Android Studio now supports c/C++
support for {cocoa}Pods dependencies
• Cloud test lab to automate test top 20
android devices
• Firebase used by 90,000 developers now,
• Google Cloud Platform
• Get users and keep them coming back.
App indexing in Google Search available
now Play Store
• Subscribe topics with one touch button
• Engage with users through push
notification, and universal ad campaigns
ANDROID STUDIO

12. • VR tool kits. Campus tours.
• 1 million Cardboard viewers - improved
viewer, larger phones. Magnet button, 3
steps to assemble. Cardboard SDK for
unity iOS and Android.
• @google #Expeditions allows teachers
to take their students ANYWHERE IN
THE WORLD!! #io15
• Jump with Go Pro 16 cameras to
combine multiple viewpoints to view VR
3D video. Camera assembler , available
on YouTube channel
• What is Google Cardboard?
GOOGLE CARDBOARD – GOOGLE EXPEDITION

13. Advanced Technology and Projects KEYNOTE
Projects: SOLI, JACQUARD, VAULT, TANGO, ARA
Project LOON, presented by Women Techmakers
Always ON with Android Wear
DAY 2 – GOOGLE IO

14. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND PROJECTS
One year ago, on June 26, 2014 you met ATAP, a small band of
pirates trying to do epic shit by closing the gap between what if and
what is. A team that is mobile first, lean and agile, open, optimized
for speed. We wanted you to know that about us, but what we
wanted you to remember about us is that ATAP is full of doer-
dreamers like you, who dare to try even when it means we might
fail, and that doing so is terrifying and hard, because it is authentic
and human and scary to believe and dream and do. Now, we've
spent a year in that feeling.
We are reminded every day that we face a choice, play it safe or go
for it. We push each other. We push ourselves. Because it's not
easy, but it is what matters. It's why I'm here, and I suspect it's why
you're back, why we all go back. And I don't mean to I/O. I mean to
that terrifying place where you take the risk and you make
something new. So we're going to go for it. No holding back.
Welcome to ATAP. Game on!
Watch KEYNOTE HERE

15. • Virtual gestures using sensors within the
textiles, to allow your hand to become a
virtual human interface – always with
you, always available, always on.
• All physical controls replaced by your
hand
• Easy to Use
• VERY Ergonomic
• Sub millimeter motions of your hand, be
small enough to fit in the textile
• RADAR can do all of this but it
doesn’t fit in the watch!
• TODAY, we have the first radar gesture
solution that is SMALL enough to fit in
textiles.
PROJECT SOLI
a tiny radar chip for gesture based digital interation

16. • Google set out to make Interactive Garments at
SCALE
• 150x as many garments as mobile phones are
manufactured every year
• Interactive touch panel uses many layers of woven
yarn and thread throughout the textile – much like
layers on a printed circuit board!
“We live in a beautiful, richly textured REAL WORLD but at
an ever increasing need for engagement with the digital
world. And these worlds exist with a certain tension. If
there’s a chance to ENABLE the clothes that we already
love to help us facilitate access to the best and most
necessary of this digital world while maintaining eye contact
with the person we’re eating dinner with.
THIS IS A REAL VALUE!”
Watch the 5 minute Video about Woven Textiles, HERE!
PROJECT JACQUARD
a better smart textile

17. • “Passwords SUCK! We forget them to
our frustration. We reuse them to our
PERIL. We need better methods, and
squirrel noises are not scalable.” –
Regina Duggan, Head of Google’s
ATAP team
• You ARE YOUR PASSWORD!
• Your keystroke patterns – not what you
type, but how you type,
• Your patterns of speaking – not what
you say, but how you say it
• This combination might provide not
only stronger security, but do so
passivley, as a continuum of TRUST!
PROJECT VAULT
next generation of password

18. • Plug into any system with microSD card slot (or SD card slot
• Make use of suite of cryptographic services to manage your
data needs like
• Encrypting data at rest and
• Encrypting streaming end to end communications – ie.
Messaging, voice, and video
Information and algorithms within Project Vault are NEVER
exposed to the system that you plug it into
THE SECURITY ELEMENT that protects the things that are
important to YOU?
Throughput for video – 1MB/S streaming
Modular for transport from device to device
GB Storage for Immutable logging systems (powerful
deturrent to an adversary, where the evidence of their
activities are forevor captured on a separate security
computer in a way that can’t be altered)
PROJECT VAULT
microSD form factor, ultra-secure mini computer

19. “Storytelling is one of the few human traits
that are tryly universal across culture and
all known history. People in societies f all
types weave narratives,m and when a
characteristic behavior shows up in so
many different societies, its roots may
reveal something about our evolutionary
past. WE ARE WIRED FOR STORIES!” –
Jeremy Hsu, “The Secrets of Storytelling –
Why We Love a Good Yarn”
Watch the 4 minute Spotlight Story,
“DUET” HERE
SPOTLIGHT STORIES
more great stories, more happy viewers, push the format

20. “Once we introduce a medium, a mode of
human expression, into the universe, it tends
to persist. Live theatre persists in the face of
cinema. Radio persists in the face of
television. A new format has a certain
timeless ness to it.” – Henry Jenkins, founder
of MIT Comparative Media Studies program
• Look in any direction, the story world is
all around you, and the speakers are
your headphones
• Dynamic Virtual Surround – ambisonics
and binaural rendering
Watch the BEHIND THE SCENES of HELP
here
PROJECT TANGO
Virtual and Augmented Reality

21. • #loonforall What is Loon?:
http://www.google.com/loon/
• Here's the technology behind the
Scale up of Project
Loon: https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=HOndhtfIXSY
PROJECT LOON
presented by Women Techmakers