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Posted by Takeshi Hagikura, Developer Programs Engineer Today we're releasing the source code for the official Google I/O 2019 Android app. This year's app substantially modified existing functionality and added several new features. In this post, we’ll highlight several notable changes. Android Q out of the box Gesture navigation Android Q introduced an option for fully gestural navigation , allowing the user to navigate back and to the home screen using only gestures. To support gesture navigation, app developers need to do two things: Extend app content to draw edge-to-edge Handle any conflicting app gestures The Google I/O 2019 app was one of the first apps to support fully the gestural navigation. For more details, check out this series of blog posts about gesture navigation and the commit in the Google I/O app repository that extended the content to draw edge-to-edge. Gesture navigation navigating back and to the home screen Dark theme Another new feature that was in...

Posted by Dave Smith , Developer Advocate for IoT Android Things is Google's managed OS that enables you to build and maintain Internet of Things devices at scale. We provide a robust platform that does the heavy lifting with certified hardware, rich developer APIs, and secure managed software updates using Google's back-end infrastructure, so you can focus on building your product. After a developer preview with over 100,000 SDK downloads, we're releasing Android Things 1.0 to developers today with long-term support for production devices. Developer feedback and engagement has been critical in our journey towards 1.0, and we are grateful to the over 10,000 developers who have provided us feedback through the issue tracker, at workshop events, and through our Google+ community. Powerful production hardware Today, we are announcing support for new System-on-Modules (SoMs) based on the NXP i.MX8M, Qualcomm SDA212, Qualcomm SDA624, and MediaTek MT8516 hardware platforms. These...

Posted by Shailen Tuli Today we're releasing the source code for the official href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.samples.apps.iosched&hl=en">Google I/O 2017 for Android app. This year's app substantially modifies existing functionality and adds several new features. It also expands the tech stack to use href="https://firebase.google.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=1001467%20%7C%20Firebase*%20Brand%20GENERIC%20%7C%20US%20%7C%20en%20%7C%20Desk%2BTab%2BMobile%20%7C%20Text%20%7C%20BKWS%20%5B2017%5D&utm_term=%7Bkeyword%7D&gclid=Cj0KCQjwq7XMBRCDARIsAKVI5Qais3r2YPsnohDN1mzomMUFysiwEJJ5W2V-LfRO_0btHf5SAfMmp5caAofLEALw_wcB">Firebase . In this post, we'll highlight several notable changes to the app as well as their design considerations. The most prominent new feature for 2017 is the event reservation system, designed to help save in-person attendees' time and provide a streamlined c...

Posted by Ritesh Nayak M, Product Manager Last year at I/O we launched the href="https://developers.google.com/awareness/">Awareness API , a simple yet powerful API that let developers use signals such as Location, Weather, Time and User Activity to build contextually relevant app experiences. Available via Google Play services, the Awareness API offers two ways to take advantage of context signals within your app. The href="https://developers.google.com/awareness/android-api/snapshot-api-overview">Snapshot API lets your app request information about the user's current context, while the href="https://developers.google.com/awareness/android-api/fence-api-overview">Fence API lets your app react to changes in user's context, and when it matches a certain set of conditions. For example, "tell me whenever the user is walking and their headphone is plugged in". Until now, you could specify a time fence on the Awareness APIs but were...

Posted by Pali Bhat, VP of Payment Products Thousands of apps and millions of stores accept Android Pay, a simpler and more secure mobile payment experience. Android Pay is now available in 10 markets, with more coming soon, including Brazil, Canada, Russia, Spain and Taiwan. And in addition to our already announced href="https://blog.google/topics/shopping-payments/android-pay-partners-visa-checkout-and-masterpass/">Visa and Mastercard partnerships, we'll soon enable a streamlined mobile checkout experience for PayPal users. The newest ways to pay with Google Yesterday, we announced the Google Payment API, which lets people pay in app or online with any verified credit or debit card saved to their Google Account, via products like Google Play, Chrome and YouTube. Paying with Google in the Wish app For users, the option to pay with Google means breezing through checkout without needing to remember and type multiple lines of payment details. You simply choose your pref...

Posted by: Dave Burke, VP of Engineering With billions of Android devices around the world, Android has surpassed our wildest expectations. Today at Google I/O, we showcased a number of ways we’re pushing Android forward, with the O Release , new tools for developers to help create more performant apps, and an early preview of a project we call Android Go -- a new experience that we’re building for entry-level devices. Fluid experiences in Android O It's pretty incredible what you can do on mobile devices today, and how easy it is to rely on them as computers in our pockets. In the O release we've focused on creating fluid experiences that make Android even more powerful and easy to use, and today we highlighted some of those: Picture-in-picture: lets users manage two tasks simultaneously, whether it’s video calling your friend while checking your calendar, or reading a new recipe while watching a video on a specific cooking technique. We’ve designed PIP to provide seamless mu...