The 2017 Google I/O Conference was officially held on May 17, Beijing time. At this conference, Google brought us the long-awaited Android O operating system, but the final version number of the operating system was not announced, nor was it confirmed whether O is the abbreviation of Oreo. In addition to releasing the latest Android system, Google also released Google Lens, which is based on the view shape intelligent recognition technology. It can perform intelligent recognition according to the camera view, distinguish the information in the image, and also can be used in conjunction with Google Assistant. In addition, it also brings the iOS version of Google Assistant, which has similar functions to the Android version and can call most Google applications and data. In addition, it has also updated the functions of Google Home, added voice phone and other functions, and improved a variety of voice interaction functions. Although no new Google Home product has been released, the functions of Google Home have been greatly enhanced. I believe Amazon Echo will feel great pressure. In addition to the above points, Google has also added AI based intelligent functions to Google Photo, YouTube and other applications and platforms, and Google's entire range of products has gradually entered the AI era.

Android O operating system

Android O is undoubtedly the focus of this conference. The new Android O improves the overall performance of the system again, and provides new development standards. Applications being developed under the new standards will have more stringent restrictions on their permissions and battery usage. The official version will be launched in the summer of 2017, and the developer preview version, named Andriod O, was launched in March. Its latest beta version has been launched on Google's developer website. Surprisingly, the version number and specific name of Android O were not announced at this IO conference. At present, its most important updates focus on the use of batteries, background resident, images and dynamic effects, and add the support of the third-party development language Kotlin. This is quite exciting news for application developers. Its main update content is to improve the battery life, strengthen the control over the CPU occupation and battery consumption of mobile phones, have higher requirements for applications resident in the background, and the multi task management mode is increasingly close to the iOS mode, and applications that do not need to reside in the background will be frozen. It also adds the picture in picture function supported by the native system, and further enhances the system level application split screen support.

Google Home

At the Google I/O 2016 conference, Google launched its first smart home assistant, Google Home, which is equipped with Google's killer function, Google Assistant. Its powerful functions have made it the control center of Google's smart home, and Google Home has also become a strong competitor of Amazon Echo smart speakers. At this conference, although Google did not launch a new Google Home, it has significantly upgraded the functions of Assistant, adding many new voice interaction functions. In addition, it relies on Google's strong search data base, and Google Home is becoming increasingly powerful.

Google Assistant for iOS

Google Assistant has been on Android for some time, and has a relatively large user base. Its intelligence and convenience have brought users a lot of convenience. It is also recognized that Assistant is better than Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Xiaona in the field of voice assistant. Today Google finally brought the Assistant to the iOS platform. The new iOS version of the Assistant has most of the functions of the Android version of the Assistant. However, due to the limitations of the iOS platform permissions, its functionality may be slightly weaker than the Android version of the Assistant, and its interaction is slightly different from the Android version, more like a combination of Assistant and Allo. In addition, due to the addition of Google Lens image recognition technology, the functionality of Google Assistant has been enhanced to some extent.

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