2013 GOOGLE IO

• Google I/O 2013 
• 900 Million Android Activations world wide ( double the 2012 figure of 400 million)
• 48 Billion Apps downloaded from Google Play (Apple's recent milestone of 50 billion)
• The revenue per user is up 2.5x what it was a year ago
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• Google Play Games : achievements, cloud saves,  leaderboards , and synchronous multiplayer.  Single Sign on cross platform logins 
• Android Studio: IntelliJ IDEA Based, preview strings of code, colors, layouts and even translations
• Developer Admin: Translation service, alpha and beta testing 
• Google Cloud Messenger:   bidirectional XMPP messaging between server and devices, persistent connections, upstream messaging and synchronized notifications (for multiple devices.) 
• Map API: Geofencing, Fused Location Provider (battery-friendly location API) Recognition Activity (API) - telling user's activity by walking, driving, or biking 
• Integrating Google Maps + Google Earth 
• Google Places: Place Recommendation, Offers, Dynamic Re-routing, Landmarks, Explorer
• "Clicking on a museum creates a map of museums, clicking on restaurant shows similar recommendations, and so forth. And with Google Earth integrated, you can literally fly from outer space right into the interior of a building, thanks to user image uploads."
• Google Play for Education:a content marketplace of apps, books and videos designed for educators in a virtual classroom 
• Google Music Play : iTunes + Pandora + Spotify 
• Google+ : Managing photos , "motion" "Awesome", :Highlight"
• Unified Google Hang out : built into Gmail and Google+, chat with multiple people at once and send media from any device. Everything is synced between devices by Google.
• Now cards: scheduler /reminder
• New Video (VP9) and Image(WebP) format: reducing file size 63%, 31% respectively.
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• GMail + Google wallet 
• Google App Engine to support PHP and Cloud Storage, targeting Amazon EC2 customers
• Google Voice Search coming to Chrome and Chrome OS. Just say “Ok, Google…”
•  Smarter Search: including use of "hot words," letting it take potentially ambiguous queries like "when does my flight land" and use your own data to answer it
• Google Play Developer Console – new features in consoleApp translations
• Revenue Graphs
• Alpha and beta testing
• Staged Rollouts
• Optimisation tips
• Google Analytics
• Referral tracking