Gadgetory

hi my name is Anita I'm a product manager at Google working on Google now on tap and this is a new feature coming and the new release of android android m and we have an early preview version that we can show you so we can give you a sense of how it works okay and so the goal of this product is that Google and Google now wants to help you wherever you are on your phone whatever you're doing give you some assistance right there in that moment to make things easier for you and so just I'll show a couple of different examples of this because it works across a variety of apps so let's say I'm in inbox you know in any email application and I get an email you know from a friend asking me to go check out a movie and I don't know much about this movie you know I could go fumble my phone go to some other app or go and do something else but Google now on tap can help me right here so I just you know tap and hold and now Google is gonna take the context of what I'm doing and help me with a quick answer about what's what I'm looking at here and so you notice this card has come up here pretty quickly and it's talking about this movie if it's perfect - and the reason we're able to do that is we're bringing Google's knowledge graph which is Google's information about all the things in the world so we know about people places things and this kind of movie and so there's some ratings here this coming from IMDB is love about information about the movie I can go and play the trailer on YouTube so I get some quick information I can decide whether I want to go see this movie with my friend something that's really cool and really important for developers here is you notice these app icons here below so there's IMDB Flixter Twitter and this is coming from Google's work on app indexing we have you know many many apps which are participating app indexing program and if those apps are installed on my phone then they show up here this is a great opportunity for developers to get discovered by users right in context right in a situation where the user might find that useful so if I want to go in IMDB check out more information about this movie go on Flixter look at the rotten tomato reviews go on Twitter see what people are saying about this movie I can do that right here right now on tap really quickly okay so that's one example you know with a movie so let me show you another example here maybe in another app so let's say I'm having a conversation in viber which is a chat app and page which is one of my friends you know send me a message you want to go to Coit Tower this weekend she's never been so again like yeah I could go for my my iPhone trying to figure this out and try understand whether I want to go there but I could use now on tap again I just you know tap on hold on the home button here and Google uses the context of what we're talking about here to show me some relevant quick answer really quickly so here it pulls up something different last time was a movie now this is a place so just from this quick answer again from the knowledge graph I can see okay this looks like some kind of tower in San Francisco and then there's different apps here I could try and navigate there because Google is trying to figure out the next action I might want to take based on this information and I want to check out some more information about Yelp or might want to go to no TripAdvisor and see some more photos or see what people are saying so just I'll click on that here and you see I go right into the TripAdvisor app right to the Coit Tower page deep link there and that's really helpful to the developer here obviously and then I can browse around I didn't have to go funneling around search in trying to figure this out Google's trying to be very helpful to me right away so another way they can use now on tap is also by voice so I'm going to show you example of that so here I am in Spotify and you know Spotify and all these other apps don't have to do anything to enable this functionality it's it comes right there in Android and the next version of em okay Google who's the lead singer so another one here a friend of mine is visiting Japan and he posted some pictures so this looks like a show he went to so I could say something like like a long press obviously here and get some information about this from now on top so this looks like some venue there other you know actions I can take there I can press the microphone here show me more pictures of this place so you see Google when I said this place Google knew that I was talking about this place that I was looking at in the app yeah so that's just show you some examples this works across a variety of apps on is coming in the next Android M release and it's Google trying to be helpful to you with Google now Google now on tap no matter what you're doing on your screen in that moment to give you assistance give you actions and answers to help you what you're doing Thanks