This week we have Google I/O 2015, the Google developer conference that is often used to launch the most important news and updates on Android For the year. If last year we experienced a torrent of news, this year, we assume that it will follow the same line, although perhaps we are not facing one of the largest versions of Android as if it has been Lollipop compared to others.
Last year we had Android Auto, Android TV, Android Wear or Android Lollipop, and this year it's the M's turn with a supposed code in name that would be Macadamia Nut Cookie, or macadamia nut cookie. We already know that they like strange or complicated things like KitKat did at the time, so Android Macadamia Nut Cookie is out of the question. Hopefully not, and is something smaller like Lollipop or KitKat. Below we will list some of the most important news that we will attend to in the coming days.
Before starting with a small compilation, there is always the surprise and the arrival of many news that have not been filtered in the continuous rumors that appear before the arrival of an event of this category.
Android M
Android M preview to be presented by Sundar Pichai at the biggest event of those two developer conference days. A preview that arrives, like Android Lollipop, so that developers can be ready for the release of the final version for fall. This time, as it is not expected to be a big update as Lollipop was, it may not take long for operators to update phones and tablets to this Android M version.
The m, at the moment it goes through Macadamia Nut Cookier, and the final name, remains to be seen, but for now this is the rumor we have in hand. Possibly it is not the definitive one, because it has already happened before with Lemon Meringue Pie or Key Lime Pie and then it has nothing to do with it.
One of the novelties that Android M will have will be 2-year warranty to receive system updates and security patches for three years from the date of purchase of the product. This means that for this version of Android the Nexus 4, Nexus 10 and Nexus 7 2012 will not receive Android M, but they will receive security updates.
Another feature of Android M will be its focus on battery and RAM. Performance will be the goal for this version and certain features that help not literally drain the battery.
To finish with Android M, another rumor is the integration of fingerprint scanner technology to be part of the hardware in Android by default. For the rest, an Android M that will not be a great change compared to Lollipop, but we will have to see if Google has hidden any ace up its sleeve.
Brightness and the Internet of Things
Google's plans are to launch a version of Android, a la Android Wear, which would use nothing more than 32 or 64 MB and that would be your approach to the Internet of Things. I already spoke recently what this operating system, which is known, for the moment, as Brillo, would mean.
An operating system that will arrive to give power to the different devices that we have at home as would be the refrigerator, oven or many others. One of the qualities of the system, apart from being able to incorporate it into products with very few megabytes of RAM, is its price, since being free it will make things easier when reaching agreements with the different manufacturers that would like to incorporate it into their devices.
Brightness is the step to bring Android to any device that you have in your house.
Material Design
The new standard in Android design is Material Design, and We have seen it in the large number of apps as well as in the operating system itself. A wonderful interface with flat colors and animations that give the user a great user experience.
For this Google I / O 2015 it is wants to enhance its use with several sessions related to Material Design that will give the key to a better implementation.
The spin off of Google Photos
Google Photos will have its space at Google I/O 2015 and all to offer a great quality that Pichai will surely present to us with great fanfare. This great quality is the ability to organize all images that we have in the device according to the objects and faces that are in them, be it cars, panoramas or food.
An application that will arrive with all the flavor of Material Design with many animations and hopefully the final version that doesn't need any more changes for a long time, since it looks like the "homeless" app that goes from one place to another.
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Android Wear 5.1.1 has arrived recently and has opened the door for the arrival of Wear at Google I / O 2015. If we were already in its presentation last year, now Google wants to dedicate several sessions to help developers to better incorporate it.
In the news that may be presented, we can have several applications for fitness that will have to do with Android Wear, so we are waiting.
Web applications
Google wants Google Play and all its apps to mix with the web apps themselves. The connecting link is Material Design with a design that is perfectly suited for various platforms.
We have an example of this with Google Play Music, which in its recent major web update shows this union with the same design language and which we were commenting on in detail from these same lines in Androidsis. Polymer 1.0 is the tool in charge of creating this type of web apps and that we will surely see again at Google I/O 2015.
Controlling everything with your voice
This novelty may be incorporated with Android M and we already saw weeks ago how Google is integrating third-party apps into Google Now to have up to 3 voice commands to control them. And it doesn't just stay here, since the goal is that everything can be controlled on Android with our voice so that we forget once and for all having to interact with the phone with gestures or from the touch screen.
More for Android Auto and Android TV
Google put the accent on the ability it offers the user to carry their multimedia content through different devices, be it the television, the tablet or even the car audio player.
This Google I / O will serve to take another step in this direction and improve the experience with second screens, programming guides or creating information channels itself. New APIs for controlling the apps in the vehicle and, ultimately, some minor changes that continue the development of both Android Auto and Android TV.
Potpourri of novelties
Project Loon, Nest, Tango, Google Cardboard or Chromecast 2 are some of the novelties of not so much renown, but that will have their place for this Google I / O 2015. From what is Tango with spatial experiences, Nest and its integration in home automation or Google Cardboard for a low-cost virtual reality that it will surely have its followers.
Google is also expected to bring us a Chromecast 2 that improves video streaming through this device and without forgetting the Ara Project news for a modular terminal.
While we can anticipate some of the most relevant news of Google I / O 2015, remains in the hands of Sundar Pichai, the one who gorges us with a few more extras, that leaves us for a few days stunned trying to assimilate those news that we wait so much for the event to be held on May 28 and 29 in San Francisco.
