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TIMOTHY JORDAN: Hello.
I'm Timothy Jordan, and this is I/O Live.
You just saw the keynote where Sundar and team brought you
through the latest product and platform innovations
from Google.
They covered Google News, Android, Google Assistant,
Google Maps, Waymo, and more.
We now have a few special guests joining us to recap just a few
of the announcements for developers.
Hi Wayne, thanks for joining us on I/O '18 Live.
Let's talk about Google Assistant.
WAYNE PIEKARSKI: Hi, Timothy.
Today, we heard about how the Google Assistant
is becoming more naturally conversational and visually
assistive.
There's new voices you can choose from to make the Google
Assistant your own.
We have continued conversation for more natural
back-and-forth conversation.
We have multiple actions so you can ask for multiple things
at once.
And we are pretty pleased with which the Assistant understands
and responds to polite conversation
with positive reinforcement.
These improvements really help everyone
have a more natural conversation with their Assistant.
Also, we unveiled a new visual canvas for the Assistant
across screens, which brings the simplicity of voice
together with a rich visual experience.
I really love the live demos of this one.
And more importantly for developers,
Google Assistant is now on 500 million devices.
It's really easy to build with Actions on Google.
So if you've been trying to decide
if you should build Actions for the Google Assistant,
now's the time.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Thanks, Wayne.
All right, let's talk about Android.
Dan, there was a lot.
Can you try and summarize for us?
DAN GALPIN: I'll do my best.
It's great to see us taking advantage on-device machine
learning at the OS level to improve battery life and system
health.
Whether that's anticipating the way
apps are used with adaptive battery,
we're looking at the way the brightness sliders used
to help anticipate screen brightness preferences.
But most importantly for developers,
you can take advantage of Android's prediction
by implementing App Actions, allowing your app
to be surfaced in places like the Launcher,
smart tech selection in the Play Store search,
and the Google Assistant.
Slices are something I've been closely following.
They allow developers to create an interactive snippet
of their app that can be searched in different places
in the OS using templatized UI.
For developers who want to leverage machine learning
within their apps, we have ML Kit,
which is across platform, hardware accelerated,
Firebase API that supports text recognition, face detection,
image labeling, and more.
Users are going to love what we've
done to simplify things and help with their digital wellness
in Android.
And developers are going to love the way Android will
be surfacing their content.
I'm looking forward to your feedback.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Thanks, Dan.
Mike, what's going on with Google Maps?
MIKE PEGG: Thanks, Timothy.
So the mission for Google Maps for the last 13 years
has been to help you in the real world
and help people everywhere in their everyday lives--
mapping every road, every building, every business
because it matters.
All the great new AI technology you heard about in the keynote
is really helping us to make vast improvements
to build on this mission for our users, things
like automatically adding addresses
from street view images.
Think about rural places in Africa or big cities
like Lagos or a dense urban environment,
places that haven't been well mapped.
Using this computer vision technology,
we can look at these street view images
and literally put new places on the map.
All this new data will help developers in these countries
build new location-based apps for their users.
I'm also really excited about the new features that
will let you know more about trending places
based on interests and context.
This is something I know my wife and I always
struggle with when we're trying to make decisions
on where to take our kids for a family dinner out.
Like, what just opened?
And based on our interests and what we already
like, where should we go?
This will be great for users and local businesses.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Thanks, Mike.
Check out the description below for links to get started.
I'm Timothy Jordan, and this is I/O Live.
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