2016 Google I/O The conference was officially held on May 19, Beijing time. This conference brought us the long-awaited new information of Android N and a series of smart hardware and smart home products. What surprised us most was that, Android Wear The system has also been significantly updated.
Five minutes to watch Google I/O 2016 (Youku)
At the beginning of the press conference, the new intelligent assistant system Google Assistant was introduced, which is more like an evolutionary version of Google Now in terms of function, and can communicate with users and solve problems. Its application scenarios are not limited to mobile phones, even extended to home.
The smart home hardware of Google Home is similar to an ordinary speaker in appearance, but it can use the network and Google assistant to control the functions of different home appliances.
Next is the application. Google has brought two applications called Allo and Duo. Among them, Allo brings a new chat experience, supports real-time adjustment of font and expression size, and colleagues support photo graffiti. Moreover, the application can also learn the user's chat mode independently, and automatically identify the words that the user may use in the next step, without requiring the user to manually type a reply.
Google has also introduced a new encryption mode in Allo, which allows users to choose the time to save chat records. Google also brought a new Duo video calling application, which can preview the picture before answering, and supports seamless connection between WiFi and cellular network. Both Allo and Duo will be online this summer.
Android N is undoubtedly the top priority of this conference. It has improved the overall performance of the system, first of all the graphics performance. Vulkan allows the system to use fewer resources to achieve the same performance. It can increase application opening speed by 75% and reduce storage space by 50%. In addition to performance, it also improves the security of the system. It seems that Google has grasped the pain points of users. Google Play itself also provides a more secure network, and formulates new security standards. If any application violates the regulations, it will be automatically uninstalled. Android N also has many optimizations for multitasking. It also supports one click cleaning background tasks and brings the function of split screen multitasking. Android N also adds a notice bar to respond to messages directly. Of course, this function still needs to be supported by the application itself. The new system also brings us more abundant emoji expressions. The new system has a total of 250 new functions. The official version will be launched in the summer of 2016, and the beta version has also been officially met with us.
To meet the trend, Google has also brought VR glasses to us at this I/O conference. Google's VR system is called DayDream, and it can only be officially launched in autumn. Google's VR mainly works together in mobile phones, VR handheld devices and applications. Google will develop relevant certification for VR mobile phones, such as Samsung HTC、 Xiaomi, Huawei, ZTE, ASUS and other manufacturers will have device support, and Android N has also added VR mode. Google's DayDream hardware includes VR glasses and a remote control. The remote control is actually a sense controller, which will play a great role in games and menus. Google will also launch a series of VR applications at that time, attracting many famous applications and game manufacturers to develop different VR content.
Android Wear 2.0 also officially met with you at the press conference. Users can customize the dial according to their own preferences, and add sports information, task management and other functions. For chat, Android Wear 2.0 has added new input methods such as quick response, handwriting and virtual soft keyboard. Android Wear Developer 2.0 is ready for download, and ordinary users need to wait.
In addition to operating system and hardware, Google has also added new mobile web standards and Android Studio 2.2 development tools, which have greatly improved speed, intelligence and platform support. At the end of the press conference, Google publicized their cloud platform, on which we can get Google's applications and use it to give us computing support with powerful supercomputers.
