Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • Welcome to Tekzilla Bites.

  • Feed your tech hunger fast!

  • I'm Patrick Norton.

  • And this morning Google dropped the needle on I/O 2014.

  • Google's annual, Hey Developers and the rest of the world,

  • here's what's coming from us.

  • First big news is what's now.

  • 1 billion active users per month up from 538 million

  • at last year's I/O. And while KitKat, that's the operating

  • system not the candy, is only on 15% of the Android

  • devices in use right now, it's no big surprise that Google

  • announced the next version of Android,

  • the L Verson of Android at Google I/O this morning.

  • No cool sugary name yet.

  • I guess licorice, lollipop, lemonhead,

  • and lima bean weren't awesome enough.

  • But Google says Android L will pack in 5,000 new APIs.

  • Those are the little bits that let

  • developers do a cool thing with the operating system.

  • The Dalvik Virtual machine is going away.

  • This is good in favor of ART, the Android run time.

  • That's the core of the operating system.

  • Google claims ART will make Android run twice as fast.

  • It will be all kinds of native on ARM, x86, and MIPS,

  • offer better garbage collection, RAM management,

  • and new graphics features for gamers.

  • So better gaming, better performance.

  • I'm excited.

  • This is a good thing.

  • Developers of the Nexus 5 or 7 will

  • be able to run L starting June 26th.

  • I want it on my Moto G just to get notifications

  • I can act on, on the lock screen.

  • By the way, there's going to be new easier ways

  • to unlock your phone from trusted locations or Bluetooth

  • devices.

  • It all sounds really subtle and really convenient.

  • One less password swipe is me getting

  • the tunes playing and the map running

  • in my car that much faster.

  • It's a good thing.

  • Something much less subtle, well, it

  • is subtle from a design sense.

  • But it's still in your face is Google's material design.

  • "A new consistent design approach."

  • Google is going in the opposite direction of Apple it seems.

  • Our material is grounded in tactile reality inspired

  • by our study of paper and ink, yet

  • open to imagination and magic.

  • Grad students ART using the sides, it kind of sounds goofy.

  • But it has the potential to finally deliver

  • quality user interfaces across all Google's products.

  • This promises to inform Google UI everywhere, Android phones

  • and tablets online, at Gmail calendar, Google Plus,

  • and I'd expect the two new Android

  • platforms Google announced today.

  • The first Android TV for smart TV apps and navigation.

  • The first hardware is going to come from Sony and Sharp.

  • Voice search to find live TV or Google

  • Play movies and shows and Android games

  • re-imagined for TV.

  • That's a shot across the bow in Microsoft

  • and the Xbox and pretty much everything

  • else on the planet that connects to a television.

  • And it sounds like that it might be

  • more open to working with non-Google Play

  • sources of video.

  • Something Amazon's fire TV has utterly, miserably failed at.

  • The second new platform, Android Auto.

  • Google's goal is very simple here.

  • Car and phone integrated seamlessly.

  • Natch, right?

  • Google worked with auto manufacturers

  • and other partners to strip down and refine Android

  • to kind of re-envision how Android will work.

  • Google Maps made easier.

  • Touch targets, simplified interfaces,

  • "The idea of a conversational operating system with your car.

  • " Like conversational OS?

  • Well, the idea that you're going to talk

  • to your car in a simple and managed way.

  • You can set reminders while you're driving, for example,

  • by talking at your car and not taking

  • your hands off the wheel.

  • This is all going to be about making Google Now more useful.

  • I'm really curious to see if checking traffic and getting

  • directions or just changing tunes

  • is going to be easy as Google has implied.

  • This new operating system, the Android Auto

  • is going to hit this fall.

  • And Android Auto ready cars will be around

  • at the end of this year.

  • Google suggests you have a powerful handset

  • since the screen in the car is really

  • being casted by your phone.

  • Hey, while we're talking cars, I love audio books on road trips.

  • And you can get a free audio book from our sponsor,

  • AudiblePodcast.com/Tekzilla.

  • 150,000 titles to choose from, from New York Times

  • best sellers to, hey, if you haven't read them yet,

  • A Game of Thrones, and the rest of the song of Fire And Ice

  • series.

  • Me, I'm getting ready to fire up Sherlock Holmes

  • for the next road trip with the boys.

  • The boys, by the way, will not be getting their hands

  • on the new Android Wear devices.

  • One's six, one's two.

  • You can pre-order the Samsung Gear Live and LG G watch.

  • Today, yes, get jellyfish warnings,

  • estimates of commute times, music, say OK Google.

  • And reply to text messages, tracking calories,

  • kill the fitbit.

  • Ask Google questions.

  • Find out what song is playing.

  • Google says, "Most people check their phones

  • more than 150 times a day, often to read a text,

  • look at the notification, or get some other single piece

  • of information.

  • That's a lot of time spent unlocking, swiping,

  • and entering passwords when your hands could easily

  • be free handling more important things."

  • I like the concept.

  • But we'll see how it goes.

  • We're also really curious to see if the Moto 360 is

  • as big is it looks when it arrives later this summer.

  • Speaking of big, Android won.

  • "Smartphones for under $100 available in India this fall."

  • Android operating system, duh, the operating system

  • will be updated by Google, not the local carrier.

  • So is a good thing.

  • Hardware reference platforms will be inspected by Google

  • to help manufactures build low cost

  • phones for developing markets fast.

  • Or as Google put it, for the next billion.

  • Google's thinking global people.

  • A little smaller, say your living room,

  • Chromecast was mentioned.

  • Later this year, Google's Wii Android powered HDMI streaming

  • stick will get Android mirroring.

  • Finally, you'll be able to see what's

  • on your phone or tablet on your TV.

  • Backdrop, AKA, a customizable home screen is coming.

  • And people will be able to stream to your cast

  • without having to be on your Wi-Fi network.

  • That's kind of cool.

  • Other tidbits dropped in a link, the keynote

  • included Project Volta, Google's efforts

  • to improve battery life for all Android devices.

  • The news of the Chrome OS is going

  • to get the ability to run native Android

  • applications eventually.

  • And Drive For Work, AKA, unlimited storage

  • on Google Drive for $10 a month, which

  • is going to include enterprise friendly controls

  • and tools to help managers track employee's work.

  • Huh.

  • I don't know how I feel about being tracked.

  • But I know I want you like this video.

  • And if you liked it, do us a favor, hit the button.

  • Like it and share it with your friends.

  • Hey, want to see our review of a new Moto G

  • 4G LTE, Motorola's update to the awesome and affordable Moto G?

  • I bought one!

  • And I reviewed it.

  • And please, subscribe to get all of our Tekzilla advice

  • at tekzilla.com or youtube.com/tekzilla,

  • tweet at Tekzilla.

  • I am Patrick Norton.

  • Thank you so much for watching.

Welcome to Tekzilla Bites.

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it