8 main news from Google I / O 2015
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
The head of Google's called today's event "aspect of mobile devices and smartphones." The presentation was presented the generation of Android M, announced the restart of Android Pay, several new features Android Wear, Google Photos, and Brillo - OS for the Internet of things. We've put together eight major moments presentation.
Keeping high quality photos and videos in Photos will be free
As previously expected, Google unveiled new application to store images and video clips. Its concept and interface largely overlap with those of the Photos, Apple presented earlier. Your music library is sorted by the date, place and subject matter, and Google smart algorithms are able to make pictures of GIF-images, to determine the most important ones, and create video cutting. The main surprise was the news that the storage of photos up to 16 megapixels and video up to 1080p in the cloud will be free and unlimited.
Maps and voice guidance will be made available offline
This innovation has become part of a whole set of changes for the slow Internet users. Search Pages are optimized traffic savings of up to 80%, and accelerate loading four times. YouTube will be able to work offline, offering upload videos to store within 48 hours. Maps and, most importantly, navigation loaded offline. This will be a good solution in a situation of traffic economy abroad.
Google Now service will be available in any system application
Novelty called Now On Tap, and launched a long press of the Home button. This function is to understand the context and provides useful information on the basis of what is displayed on the screen of your smartphone. It becomes smarter and Google Now: you do not need to formulate its request in a formal form; if it is clear from the context, the service will display the correct results.
Gadgets Internet of things will be able to "communicate" with each other
Weave and Brillo - two new products that the company introduced for the Internet of things devices: thermostats, smart windows, lights, cameras. Weave - a language for the exchange of information between gadgets and Brillo - OS, on which they will work.
Watches Android Wear will permanently display important information
This feature has become a major OS in conjunction four innovations to wearable art. Clock display in monochrome displays time card tips, shopping lists or transport timeout notice. This information remains always in sight, and the power consumption is almost no different from that in the standby mode. In addition, the developers have implemented a navigation system hands gestures, drawing Emoji on the screen and a redesigned launcher.
Permissions requested by apps, will be less
This innovation will free you from having to constantly adjust the set of permissions required by the application. Now they are requested once, but their number is significantly reduced.
Gadgets will be discharged slowly
Considerable attention was paid to energy use Android. New Doze mode uses sensors to determine the state, during which the gadget is inactive. In such a case, it becomes particularly deep sleep increased energy saving mode. According to statements made by Google, Doze can double the battery life.
On YouTube, videos will appear three-dimensional 360 °
YouTube in the summer will be supported stereoscopic movies a la virtual reality. It is implemented through Jump - video shooting technology for virtual reality.