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Nexus Special #51: Google I/O 2017


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Notes
  • Google I/O Keynote (Google I/O '17) - YouTube
  • Google I/O 2017 keynote in 10 minutes - YouTube
  • 01:45 | Google Lens
    • So, like Google Goggles?
    • So, like, Bixby?
    • So, like, Amazon Fire Phone?
    • 04:03 | Google.ai
      • Build and train machine learning models on our new Google Cloud TPUs
      • Making AI tools available to more people
      • Save time with Smart Reply in Gmail
      • 06:48 | Your Google Assistant is getting better across devices, from Google Home to your phone
        • Introducing typing support, rather than just talking. Finally.
        • Lens integration (think Google Now style)
        • Now on iPhone (probably crippled)
        • Google Assistant SDK
          • “Google Assistant Built In”
          • Italian, Korean, and Spanish later this year
          • 11:30 | Actions on Google
            • Supporting transactions: payments, identity, notifications, etc all pulled from your Google account
            • What’s next for Google payment and loyalty experiences
            • “I was in control of what I shared every step of the way”
            • Supporting smart home devices
            • 13:22 | Google Home
              • Coming to new countries: Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan
              • Proactive assistance, notifications
              • Hands free calling on Google Home
                • Any landline or mobile number in NA, for free
                • Uses your actual number, somehow
                • Adding a bunch of new music and video services to the Assistant
                • Adding Bluetooth support
                • Enhanced sharing to screens
                  • Better integration with Chromecast by person’s voice
                  • Starting actions on the Home, then bringing them to another screen like your phone
                  • 21:35 | 500 million people using Google Photos, and three new ways to share
                    • Suggested sharing - prompts you to send good photos to the people who are in them
                    • Shared libraries - if there is someone you already share pretty much everything with, Photos can share everything with them automatically
                      • Can set it to only share photos of specific people or after a specific date
                      • Can set some to go into your main view, others only go into your library.
                      • Photo Books
                        • Literally a physical book
                        • You can select a whole bunch of pictures, and Google Photos will suggest the best ones to put in the book.
                        • You can tweak the book before checkout, of course.
                        • Google Lens will be available within Google Photos
                        • 27:40 | YouTube
                          • 360° videos will be watchable on TVs
                          • Super Chat - live stream viewers can pay to highlight their comment
                            • New API allows creators to rig things to happen when viewers use Super Chat
                            • 31:53 | Android: celebrating a big milestone together with you
                              • Picture-in-picture
                              • Notification Dots
                                • App icon on home screen can have a dot on it to indicate that a notification is waiting
                                • Auto Fill
                                  • Chrome’s password autofill is coming to Android apps outside Chrome
                                  • Copy+Paste
                                    • Double-tap on text, and Android guesses what part of the text you want selected.
                                    • Designed for proper nouns, links, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses
                                    • Keeping you safe with Google Play Protect
                                      • Making the scans that Play already does more visible to the user
                                      • Play Console Dashboards
                                        • Tool for Android developers to see what is affecting performance in their app
                                        • Kotlin is now an officially-supported language on Android
                                        • Android Go
                                          • A version of Android designed for low-memory, limited connectivity devices
                                          • Many Google apps have been optimized for the situation
                                            • Eg YouTube Go, which allows you preview stills from a video and choose the video quality before watching.
                                            • To encourage other developers to do the same, they are highlighting apps that are optimized in the Play Store
                                            • 51:37 | Standalone VR Headsets
                                            • The latest on VR and AR at Google I/O
                                              • Working on a reference device with Qualcomm
                                              • HTC, Lenovo are creating headsets
                                              • 54:10 | Tango
                                              • More on Daydream, Tango, and Developer tools for VR and AR
                                                • Asus ZenPhone AR coming
                                                • Google Maps will have indoor navigation. “VPS” Visual Positioning System.
                                                • 58:08 | Google For Jobs
                                                  • Shows up in a regular Google Search
                                                  • Clusters different terms people use to mean the same thing
                                                  • Filters by many criteria
                                                  • Making AI work for everyone
                                                  • Attributions
                                                    • "Wepa" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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