Key Points To Take Away From Google io 2015

Main Theme - Mobile

	Mobile phone is becoming the first computer for many millions of people.
	Google Android M - Developer preview available - Final build to be out in Q3/Q4 2015.
	Android Auto - released for US and Europe in partnership with auto Majors.

Internet of Things

	Brillo ( for IOT) - release in Q3
	Weave - cross platform - communication layer - release in Q4
	Deep Neural Networks ( 30 Layers) - Okay Google and Image recognition uses this DNN
	Context Aware Information Display - part of Android M.

Google Now

	Assist users in Mobile World
	Context Engine - completely built based on modern Neural networks research. Lots of NLP.
	Answers - Advanced search output - based on context and content.
	Actions - full blown mobile interactions - call, search, share, reminders etc from a result.
	Order Grocery - with Google Now Card + Instacart.

Now on Tap

	With Google M.
	Extremely powerful context aware engine.
	Will be released as part of Android M - later in Q3/Q4 2015.

Google Photos - new product

	Auto back up - free and unlimited
	Organize by months, year - with a simple pinch gesture.
	Very powerful tagging, search and gesture support.
	Share and save what matters.
	Backup Unlimited high quality photos and videos for free ( 16 Mega px and 1080 resolution).
	Already available for General public - Android, iOS and Web.

Google Translate

	BRIC countries will play a major role in Smart Phone adoption and see high growth.
	Mention of Jaipur and Mumbai in the Talk.
	2G is very slow, starting to change the search results and loading content starting Indonesia.
	In India - Network Quality Estimator - currently replaces icons/images with placeholder.
	Working on Offline capabilities - while searching - on Chrome on Android.
	Youtube Offline - a video offline up to 48 hours - (in India and few other countries).
	India is centre of attention now for Mobile growth.
	Powerful Offline Maps - with turn by turn voice directions offline - later this year.

Develop, Engage & Earn

	Android Studio 1.3 - faster build and better memory profiler.
	Full Support for C++ on Android Studio for NDK ( Native Development Kit).
	Polymer 1.0 library for better experience for web app.
	COCOA PODS - Google APIs via Cocoa Pods - for iOS.
	Cloud Test Lab - for automating apps test - will be available in Play Developer Console Soon.
	Firebase
	Google Cloud Platform  - for big data.
	App indexing via Google search results in Google Mobile.
	App indexing pilot is on for iOS.
	Cloud Messaging - coming on iOS.
	Subscription feature in Cloud Messaging.
	Via Chrome - you can engage on Mobile website  - via Notifications ( OS level control).
	Push Notifications for Mobile web.
	Universal app campaign tracking platform - Search, Admob, YouTube - in next few months.
	Conversion funnel in Play Console to improve Play Store listing.
	Google Play - Home pages for Companies - single destination to promote Multiple apps together.
	AdMob+Google Analytics - Mediation ( support for 40 ad networks) - just added Tencent GDT.

Google Play

	New ways to improve Discoverability of Apps - Google Play
	50Billion app installs last year.
	India, Sout-East asia driving the Growth.
	Personalized Play Store listing (Context or person aware).
	Content ( Family friendly) - more secure content discovery for parents.

Android Nano Degree with Udacity (200$/pm)

	Google spent 4million USD to develop the curriculum.

Google Cardboard

	User Experience very important in the mobile world.
	Google Cardboard - 1 million users/viewers.
	Virtual Reality experience.
	Cardboard SDK - both iOS & Android.
	Expeditions with Google Cardboard - virtual reality to class rooms.
	JUMP - capturing world as VR video - releasing this summer.
	GoPro - will be building and selling JUMP 360 degree camera.
	YouTube will support VR videos from summer.

As a whole, we can infer that on android platform Mobile based search, nudges and advertising is gonna get very powerful in future. As for now, Mobile is the new computer - a computer that knows its owner, his/her habits, interests and many more personal traits.