What Is Google I/O And Android L?

This years Google I/O was a hit and as always, a full house. Each year, Google holds a 2-3 day conference for developers where it focuses on highly technical, in-depth emerging

technologies and preview's its upcoming software, hardware, goals and projects.

Currently Android has 1 billion monthly active users and it is Google's goal, to double that number.

1 Billion Monthly Active Users

So what was new at Google I/O 2014?

An exciting glimpse of the wave of the near future...on Android. The new upgrade of Android doesn't even have a name yet, they are currently calling it "L".

I call it Android on steroids. Prepare to be amazed over the coming year as Google is in the process of out doing even itself by taking personal computing and raising the bar to new levels.

Android L will have over 5000 new API's under the hood along with a new UI design.

With Android L, Google intends to change the way we use our smart phones as well as all of our other Android devices. Their belief is that with all of our different devices, phones, tablets, pc's or tv's, switching between devices should be seamless and simple. Google intends to make a common platform to allow for one connected experience, no matter what device we are using, so that we have the right information at the right time.

Google will also be the one who pushes out the new updates to all Android devices versus each manufacturer pushing the updates out at various times. Just for an example of what they would like to avoid, I own a Samsung phone and tablet and just one week ago, I received the update to KitKat. This is due to Samsung having built their own UI (TouchWhiz) then put it together with Android. This causes them to have to do customizations at the level of the manufacturer.

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