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May 19, 2021
The Google I/O 2021 keynote was a success. By now, you’ve probably heard of a lot of things from Android 12 Beta 1 to Wear OS and the fact that Google has added the best of Samsung’s Tizen to come up with a unified platform. New privacy and security tools have also been introduced. Now we’re learning more about the Google Assistant that will be available soon on more devices. For developers and OEMs, Google has also shared new features and tools that will help you come up with new devices and apps.
New Android APIs are ready for Assistant developers. If you want to try and incorporate Google Assistant, you may start with App Actions. It brings Google Assistant to your mobile app. It’s able to help you complete user queries. Some of the major apps that have used App Actions include Twitter and MyFitnessPal.
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Android 12 s radical new design, Wear OS brought back from the dead, and more: Every big Google I/O announcement
Google I/O day one is just about a wrap, and with it came an absolute tsunami of news. Android is getting its biggest design overhaul in half a decade. Wear OS is being completely pivoted and merging with Samsung Tizen?! Android Automotive is headed to more cars, and as usual, Google announced a smorgasbord of app updates and changes to apps you use every day. We ve got all the big news here, and there s a lot of it, so let s buckle down and get through this stuff!
Everything Google announced at I/O today
Android 12, 3D video calls, Wear OS updates, dev tools and more
This year’s I/O event from Google was heavy on the “we’re building something cool” and light on the “here’s something you can use or buy tomorrow.” But there were also some interesting surprises from the semi-live event held in and around the company’s Mountain View campus. Read on for all the interesting bits.
Android 12 gets a fresh new look and some quality of life features
We’ve known Android 12 was on its way for months, but today was our first real look at the next big change for the world’s most popular operating system. A new look, called Material You (yes), focuses on users, apps, and things like time of day or weather to change the UI’s colors and other aspects dynamically. Some security features like new camera and microphone use indicators are coming, as well as some “private compute core” features that use AI processes on your phone to cu
Google really wants developers to adopt its new Material UI
Android development may have started as a grab bag of poorly integrated libraries with no documentation and running it all in a bad IDE, but things have really turned around over the years. Android Studio makes it easier to build working apps with fewer mistakes; Kotlin makes for more readable straightforward code; and the combination of Jetpack and Jetpack Compose provides a clear direction for faster development. Today s announcement really focuses on Jetpack Compose, but as you would expect from each Google I/O, new versions of each are coming out and they ve got something new for everybody.