San Francisco, CA

Google I/O 20147/28/2014

Juha Ristolainen (@Riussi)

I am a Software craftsman with 14 years of professional experience and a long hobbyist history before that.

I am currently working as a Chief Architect / Technology Director on mobile technologies at Futurice. I have worked with Futurice at all of our offices (Helsinki, Tampere, Berlin and London). I have a wealth of experience in all kinds of mobile platforms from ancient to current ones.

I love technology and I am an early adopter and usually when there is something new in the world of mobile, I am on it like bees on honey.

Having worked in the mobile industry for so long I’ve had the opportunity to work with the current mobile platforms right from the start. I have worked with Android, iOS and Windows Phone from the day they had public SDKs. These are the main tools of my trade. But to keep things interesting I also like to play around with all kinds of new and old things as well. Some of them include e.g. Qt-based platforms like Jolla SailfishOS, Ubuntu Touch and BlackBerry 10 but also things like FirefoxOS.

During my career I’ve also seen a lot of platform reach the end of their lives like Symbian and MeeGo.

Technology Director / Chief Architect, Mobile Technologies

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The event » ~6000 participants at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

› 20%+ female participation

› Significant amount of “Glassholes”

» Viewing parties at 597 locations in 85 countries in 6 continents

» 1M+ live stream viewers

» Lots of topics: Android, Web, Design

› This year the focus was very much on Android

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Android numbers

» Mobile momentum

› 300M+ shipped smartphones in Q4/2013

› From cumulative activations to 30-day active users

› 1B+ 30-day active users for Android

› Mobile Chrome has 300M users (10x growth last year)

» Android tablets

› 62% share of overall tablet markets (up from 46% last year)

› Usage examples:

› 42% of YouTube tablet usage from Android

› App installs increased 236% last year

» $5B paid out to developers since last Google I/O (2.5x growth from the year before)

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Developer Economics

» Developer Economics Survey Q3/2014

› 10 000+ developers surveyed

› Android is pulling ahead of iOS as a primary platform globally (42% versus 32% of developers)

› http://www.developereconomics.com/reports/q1-2014/

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Presenter

Presentation Notes

58% of Android developers use Java 53% of iOS developers use Objective-C 63% of Windows Phone developers use C#

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Android One

» Google also wants to reach the next billion people

» Set of HW reference platforms

› Turnkey solutions for vendors

» Stock Android

› Play auto-installs

› Automatic updates

» Launching with 3 OEMs in India

› Price point dnder $100

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Material Design

» New design language for all of Google

› Not just for phones and tablets but for Android, Chrome and all of Google from mobile to desktop and beyond

› Android L Preview for Android and Polymer for web

› Clear and simple, inspiration from pen and paper. Physical surfaces and edges, seams and shadows, clean typography, animated feedback, bold colours.

› Elevation to UI elements

› Framework will render it in correct perspective with virtual light sources and real-time shadows

› http://www.google.co.uk/design/

› More in Hannes’ presentation later today

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One Android to rule them all

» Extend your existing skills to new form factors

» One SDK for everything

› Android L

› Android Wear

› Android Auto

› Android TV

› (Google Glass)

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New Android L experiences

» Contextually aware

› right info at right time

» Voice enabled

› Major source of input

» Seamless

› Between devices, pick up where you left off

» Mobile First

› Smartphone always with users

› Other form factores rely heavily on the smartphone

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Android L Developer Preview

» First time since the launch of the open SDK there is a preview

» Biggest release in the history of Android

» 5000+ new “APIs”, touching nearly every aspect of the system

» Faster cycle: Google Play Services ships every 6 weeks

› 93% of users are on the latest version across all versions of Android

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Some L highlights

» Material Design

› New theme, new animation capabilities

› 3D views with real-time shadows, elevation

› Activity transitions with shared hero element

» Notifications and authentication

› Access from lock screen

» Mobile web integration

› Recents, app indexing

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Android L performance

» New runtime: ART

› Truly cross-platform: ARM, x86, MIPS

› 64-bits

› AOT, JIT and interpreted

› ~2x performance improvement over Dalvikwithout any changes to apps

› New garbage collector and memory allocator

› Less and shorter GC pauses, separate area for e.g. bitmaps -> less app stutters

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Android L graphics and battery performance

› Mobile GPU performance closing the gap to consoles/desktops

› Android Extension Pack

› Tesselation, geometry shaders, computer shaders, ASTC texture compression

› Coming up in new tablets this fall

› Battery life

› Project Volta

› Battery historian tool

› Battery saver mode

› New APIs

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Enterprise » Enterprise and personal apps in a single device.

» Samsung contributed Knox to Android platform

» Android for Work program with partners

» Native Office file editing in Google Docs

» Google Drive has 190M 30-day active users (85% growth last year)

» Google Drive for Work

› Encryption in transit and on server

› Unlimited Storage for $10 / user / month

› 58% of Fortune 500 companies and 72 out of top 100 universities have gone Google

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Android Wear

» Google’s wearable platform based on Android

» Supports both square and circular screens

» Context aware

» Glanceable information

› Card-based UI

› Navigate up/down

› Drill down or dismiss left/right

» Voice controlled

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Android Auto

» Main uses in the car

› Navigation, Communications and Media

» Redesigned Android for the car

› Contextually aware and voice enabled

› UI adapted for glanceable information

› Available with the public Android L later this year, SDK soon

» Open Automotive Alliance

› 40 new partners in OAA

› 25 brands signed up to ship Android Auto in the near future

› First cars by the end of this year

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Android TV » Smart TV development at a point that mobile was in 2006.

› Everyone has their own tools and APIs

› It’s not feasible to support all

» Google wanted to change that and give TV the same attention as phones and tablets

» From TVs to set-top boxes to gaming consoles

» Lean-back experience (10ft UX)

» Voice control and d-pad

» Google search tailored for TV

» Gaming across devices

» Full Google Cast support

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Chromecast » Now able to stream over the cloud

» Mirror any Android device screen

» Google Cast SDK for Android, iOS and ChromeOS

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And lots more

» Including Google Cloud Platform updates

› Data and analytics: Cloud Dataflow

» Developer tools

› Android Studio out of preview into beta

› Appurify cloud-based testing tools acquired by Google

» Google Fit Platform Preview

› Single set of APIs

› Information was too siloed, Fit provides a unified view into the data

› Partners include Adidas, Nike, Polar, etc.

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Google I/O 2014 material

» I/O 2014 videos: https://www.google.com/events/io/io14videos

» Material Design: http://www.google.com/design/

» Polymer: http://www.polymer-project.org/

» Developer site: http://developer.android.com/

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