Google I/O

Google I/O
Date(s) May - June (2-3 days)
Begins 7-8AM
Ends 3-10PM
Frequency Annual
Venue
Location(s) 2008-2015: San Francisco, CA, USA
2016-2018: Mountain View, CA, USA
Founded 28 May 2008
Most recent 8 May 2018
Participants 5000 (est.)
Organized by Google
Website events.google.com/io/
Google I/O 2008

Google I/O (simply I/O) is an annual developer conference held by Google in Mountain View, California. I/O showcases technical in-depth sessions focused on building web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open sources such as Android, Chrome and Chrome OS, APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.

I/O was inaugurated in 2008, and is organized by the executive team. "I/O" stands for input/output, as well as the slogan "Innovation in the Open".[1] The event's format is similar to Google Developer Day.

Sundar Pichai at Google I/O 2015
Sundar Pichai at the Google I/O 2017 Keynote
Google I/O 2017 Android Fireside Chat

Conferences

I/O
Year Date Location Announcements Hardware Information
2008 May 28–29 Moscone Center Android

App Engine

Bionic

Maps API

OpenSocial

Web Toolkit

None Speakers were:

[2]

2009 May 27–28 AJAX APIs

Android

App Engine

Chrome

OpenSocial

Wave

Web Toolkit

HTC Magic Speakers were:
  • Aaron Boodman
  • Adam Feldman
  • Adam Schuck
  • Alex Moffat
  • Alon Levi
  • Andrew Bowers
  • Andrew Hatton
  • Anil Sabharwal
  • Arne Roonman-Kurrik
  • Ben Collins-Sussman
  • Jacob Lee
  • Jeff Fisher
  • Jeff Ragusa
  • Jeff Sharkey
  • Jeffrey Sambells
  • Jerome Mouton
  • Jesse Kocher

[3]

2010 May 19–20 APIs

Android

App Engine

Chrome

Enterprise

Geo

OpenSocial

Social Web

TV

Wave

HTC Evo 4G

Motorola Droid

Nexus One

Speakers were:
  • Aaron Koblin
  • Adam Graff
  • Adam Nash
  • Adam Powell
  • Adam Schuck
  • Alan Green
  • Albert Cheng
  • Albert Wenger
  • Alex Russell
  • Alfred Fuller
  • Amit Agarwal
  • Amit Kulkarni
  • Amit Manjhi
  • Amit Weinstein
  • Andres Sandholm
  • Angus Logan
  • Arne Roonmann-Kurrik
  • Bart Locanthi
  • Ben Appleton
  • Ben Chang
  • Ben Collins-Sussman

[4]

2011 May 10–11 Android

Chrome and Chrome OS

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Series 5 Chromebook

Verizon MiFi

The afterparty hosted Jane's Addiction.

[5][6][7][8]

2012 June 27–29 Android

Chrome

  • 310 million users announcement
  • Chrome for Android is stable
  • iOS app

Compute Engine

Docs

  • Offline editing

Drive

  • App for iOS
  • SDK (v.2)

Glass

Gmail

  • 425 million users announcement

Google+

  • Hangouts app and metrics
  • Platform for Mobile with SDKs and APIs

Maps

  • Offline for Android
  • Enhanced maps in API
  • Transit data in API

Nexus

YouTube

  • Updated 720p HD API
  • Heat maps and symbols in API
  • Updated Android app
Galaxy Nexus

Nexus 7

Nexus Q

Chromebox

Extended the I/O conference from the usual two-day schedule to three days. There was no keynote on the final day.

The afterparty hosted Paul Oakenfold and Train. [9][10][11]

2013 May 15–17 Android

App Engine

Google+

  • Redesign with photo and sharing emphasis

Hangouts

  • Updated IM platform

Maps

  • Redesign on web and Android

Play

TV

Chromebook Pixel The amount of time for all the $900 (or $300 for school students and faculty) tickets to sell out was 49 minutes, even when registrants had both Google+ and Wallet accounts by requirement.

There were a fleet of remote-controlled blimpsstreaming a bird's-eye view of I/O.

The afterparty hosted Billy Idol. [12][10][13]

2014 June 25–26 Android

Chromebook

  • Improvements

Google Fit

Gmail

  • API
LG G Watch

Samsung Gear Live

Moto 360

Google Cardboard

The Moto 360 was made available to attendees by shipping it afterwards.[14]
2015 May 28–29 Android

Chrome

  • Custom tabs

Gmail

  • Inbox availability for everyone

Maps

  • Offline mode

Nanodegree

Now

  • Reduction in voice error
  • Context improvements

Photos

Play

  • "About" tabs for developer pages
  • A/B listings
  • Store listing experiments
  • "Family Star" badge

Project Brillo

  • Project Weave
Nexus 9

Improved Google Cardboard

Marshmallow includes new feature such as:
  • App permission controls
  • Native fingerprint recognition.
  • "Deep sleep", a mode which puts the device to sleep for power saving.
  • USB-C support
  • Deep-linking app support, which leads verified app URLs to the app in the Play store.

Android Wear adds:

  • "Always on" extension to apps
  • Wrist gestures

Nanodegree is an Android course on Udacity

Project Brillo is a new operating system for the Android-based Internet of things. Project Weave is a common language for IoT devices to communicate [15][16]

2016 May 17–19 Shoreline Amphitheatre Allo

Android

Assistant

Duo

Firebase

Home

Play integration with Chrome OS

Google Home Sundar Pichai moved Google I/O to Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA for the first time. Attendees were given sunglasses and sunscreen due to the amphitheater's outside conditions, however many attendees were sunburned so the talks were relatively short.[17]

Android Instant Apps is a code path that downloads a part of an app instead of accessing a web app, which allows links to load apps on-demand without installation. This was shown with the B&H app.[18] Android support for VR was shown with Daydream.[19]

Firebase, a mobile application platform, now adds storage, reporting and analytics.[20] [21][22]

The inaugural Google Play Awards were presented to the year's best apps and games in ten categories.[23]

2017 May 17–19 Android Oreo

Flutter

Google.ai

$700 in Google Cloud Platform Credits Project Treble is an Android Oreo feature that modularizes the OS so carriers can update their smartphones easier.[25]

Google Assistant became available on iOS devices.[26]

A new standalone (in-built) virtual reality system to be made by the HTC Vive team and Lenovo.[27]

Flutter is a cross-platform mobile development framework that enables fast development of apps across iOS and Android.[28]

The afterparty hosted LCD Soundsystem.

2018 May 8–10
  • Android P Beta Version
  • Material Design 2.0
  • Changes in Gmail
  • Android Wear 3.0
  • An Impressive Google Assistant
  • AR/VR Efforts
  • Updated Google Home

Android Things kit

Google Home Mini[29]

Here are the expectations in terms of announcements that will be made at Google I/O 2018
  • Android P - The next OS in line will be revealed in the I/O 2018 Developer Conference - both the name and the features’ applications.
  • Material Design 2.0 - This year, Google will be announcing a series of changes in the globally accepted design standard - Material Design. The design guide will be getting numerous aesthetic updates like greater white space, new translucence, round corners, and bright icons.
  • Android Wear 3.0 - The version will be introduced in Google I/O 2018. It will be made more in sync with iOS framework and would support more apps while getting a concentrated focus on saving the battery life.
  • Gmail Changes - While a series of changes in UI and replies were rolled out in the consumer version of Gmail in past few months. Enterprise version changes will be brought in by Google in Gmail in the I/O 2018 conference.
  • Updated Google Assistant - The event would launch an Assistant that is smarter, is multilingual, and is not dependent on trigger words like “Ok Google” and “Hey, Google”.
  • Updated Google Home - While the chance that a new Home device would be launched is extremely low. The brand will definitely include updates and its plan of expansion in other countries in I/O 2018.
  • AR/VR - Google will be announcing a new set of initiatives in its AR/VR department, both in hardware and software.
  • Flutter - With over 11 sessions planned for Flutter, the SDK will be practiced hands-on in the I/O 2018 Event.

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