Learn Android @ I/O: The Playground Is Open

(Cross-posted on the Official Android Blog)

Last twelvemonth at Google I/O, nosotros talked virtually momentum, mobile as well as more. This year, we’re picking upwardly correct where nosotros left off. More than 400 1000000 Android devices cause got straight off been activated—up from 100 1000000 terminal June. And twelve novel Android devices are activated every every second—that’s to a greater extent than than 1 1000000 a day. Today, we’re rolling out a novel version of Android called Jelly Bean, adding to a greater extent than amusement to Google Play, as well as introducing ii powerful—yet distinctly dissimilar Nexus devices to convey you lot the best of Google.

Jelly Bean: simple, beautiful as well as beyond smart
Jelly Bean builds on locomote past times of Ice Cream Sandwich. It makes everything smoother, faster as well as to a greater extent than fluid. For example, notifications are straight off to a greater extent than dynamic: if you’re slowly for a coming together or missed a call, you lot tin give the sack e-mail or telephone telephone straight from notifications. The keyboard is smarter as well as to a greater extent than accurate, as well as tin give the sack predict your side past times side word. And phonation typing is faster, working fifty-fifty when you lot don’t cause got a information connection.

We’ve redesigned search from the position down upwardly inwards Jelly Bean, amongst a novel user interface as well as faster, to a greater extent than natural Voice Search. You tin give the sack type your query or only inquire Google a question. Google tin give the sack speak dorsum to you, delivering a precise answer, powered past times the Knowledge Graph, if it knows one, inwards add-on to a listing of search results.

Today’s smart devices nonetheless rely on you lot to practise pretty much everything—that is, until now. Google Now is a novel characteristic that gets you lot exactly the correct information at exactly the correct time. It tells you lot today’s weather condition earlier you lot start your day, how much traffic to await earlier you lot larn out for work, or your favorite team's grade equally they’re playing. There’s no excavation required: cards seem at the instant you lot require them most.



Starting inwards mid-July, we’ll start rolling out over-the-air updates to Milky Way Nexus, Motorola Xoom as well as Nexus S, as well as we’ll besides free Jelly Bean to opened upwardly source.

Google Play: to a greater extent than entertainment
Google Play is your digital amusement destination, amongst to a greater extent than than 600,000 apps as well as games summation music, movies as well as books. It’s alone cloud-based, which way all of your content is ever available across all of your devices. Today our shop is expanding to include magazines. We’ve been working amongst leading publishers Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith as well as to a greater extent than to offering magazines similar House Beautiful, Men’s Health, Shape and WIRED.

Now, you lot tin give the sack besides buy movies inwards add-on to renting them. And we’re adding television shows on Google Play—in fact, we’re adding thousands of episodes of broadcast as well as cable TV shows, similar "Revenge," "Parks & Recreation" as well as "Breaking Bad," from to a greater extent than or less of the locomote past times studios, similar ABC Studios, NBCUniversal as well as Sony Pictures. You tin give the sack play dorsum movies as well as TV shows on all your Android devices, through Google Play on the web, as well as on YouTube, as well as presently we’ll convey the sense to Google TV devices.

Movie purchases, TV shows as well as magazines are available today on play.google.com, as well as volition ringlet out to Google Play on devices over the coming days.

Nexus 7: powerful, portable as well as designed for Google Play
All of this dandy Google Play content comes to life on Nexus 7, a powerful novel tablet amongst a vibrant, 7” 1280x800 hard disk display. The Tegra-3 chipset, amongst a quad-core CPU as well as 12-core GPU, makes everything, including games, extremely fast. And best of all, it’s only 340 grams, lighter than most tablets out there. Nexus seven was built to convey you lot the best of Google inwards the palm of your hand. Hang out amongst upwardly to 10 friends on Google+ using the front-facing camera, browse the spider web blazingly fast amongst Chrome and, of course, crank through your emails amongst Gmail.



Nexus seven comes preloaded amongst to a greater extent than or less dandy entertainment, including the moving-picture demo "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," the mass “The Bourne Dominion,” magazines like Condé Nast Traveler and Popular Science, as well as songs from bands similar Coldplay as well as the Rolling Stones. We’ve besides included a $25 credit to buy your favorite movies, books as well as to a greater extent than from Google Play, for a express time. Nexus seven is available for preorder today from Google Play inwards the U.S., U.K., Canada as well as Australia, as well as starts at $199 inwards the U.S.A. It volition start transportation mid-July.

Nexus Q: It’s a sphere!
It's dandy to last able to accept your amusement amongst you lot wherever you lot go, but sometimes you lot desire to ditch the headphones as well as savor music amongst friends as well as family. So we’re introducing Nexus Q, which combines the ability of Android as well as Google Play to easily current music as well as video inwards your home—all controlled past times an Android telephone or tablet. Designed as well as engineered past times Google, Nexus Q is a pocket-sized sphere that plugs into the best speakers as well as TV inwards your house. It’s the first-ever social streaming device—like a cloud-connected jukebox where everyone brings their ain music to the party. Available commencement inwards the U.S., you lot tin give the sack preorder Nexus Q today from Google Play for $299, as well as it volition transportation mid-July.



If you lot ain ane of the 400 1000000 Android devices out there, you lot already know that it’s much to a greater extent than than only a telephone or tablet. It’s your connexion to the best of Google—all of your materials as well as entertainment, everywhere you lot go. Now you lot cause got a novel version of Android, to a greater extent than amusement as well as a growing portfolio of Nexus devices to select from—all available inwards Google Play. The playground is open.

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