Tuesday

Google I/O 12 - The Android Sessions

Google I/O is an annual developer-focused conference held by Google in San Francisco, California. Google I/O features highly technical, in-depth sessions focused on building web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, Chrome, Chrome OS, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.
Google I/O was started in 2008. The "I" and "O" stand for input/output, and "Innovation in the Open"*. The format of the event is similar to that of the Google Developer Day.

2012 (June 27–29, 2012)

It is being held at Moscone Center West in San Francisco and has been extended to three days, instead of the regular two.^[7]
Google is giving away the following hardware to attendees:

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Day 1

The Main topics throughout this day were Android, Google+ and Project Glass. A keynote was held on this day.^[8]
Official Announcements included the following:

Jelly Bean (4.1)
- Project Butter
- Google Now
- 16 new gestures in Android
Nexus 7

Google unveiled the world's first Quad Core 7 inch tablet at this event. It runs on the latest version of Android platform, Android 4.1 (Jelly bean). This tablet is specially designed for this new version and helps you experience Google Play to the best possible extent. As a part of Google Play, Google announced the introduction of magazines to Play. In addition, you can now purchase movies apart from renting them. A wealth of TV episodes of popular shows are also being added to the Play Store for your viewing pleasure. And Nexus7 comes with a taste of all these to whet your appetite – pre-loaded movie (Transformers: Dark of the moon), Book (The Bourne Dominion), Mags (Conde Nast Traveler, Popular Science), Music (songs from Coldplay, Rolling Stones and other popular bands) along with $25 credit that you can use to buy apps, music, books and anything else that you fancy from the Play Store.

There is no day marked out specially on the calendar specifying the release date, but you can start pre-ordering the Nexus7 on the Play Store right now. Shipping is expected to start around mid-July. This facility is available in the U.S, U.K, Canada and Australia.^[9]

Nexus Q
Project Glass
Android surpassed 400 million activations worldwide
In-App Payments: new pricing and subscription options for integrating Google Wallet

Official Releases included the following:

Offline maps for Android
Version 2 of the Google Drive SDK
Google+ Hangout apps
Google+ Hangout app metrics
New 3D Imagery for Google Earth for Android
New and updated Youtube API's
Public transit data now included in Google Maps API
New Youtube Android Mobile App

Day 2

The Main topics throughout this day were Google Chrome, The Cloud and Project Glass. A second (and final) keynote was held on this day.^[10]
Official Announcements included the following: