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hey what is up guys I'm Kay PhD here and this year wrapped up the sixth annual Google i/o 2013 conference in San Francisco California there are a lot of awesome things that happens and also a lot of memorable things that didn't happen that we expected to happen but if you don't want to watch the three hour-long keynote which I'll include below the like button and if you want to watch the dozens of other hours of sessions this video while it might be a little bit long is a condensed version of that and without no further ado we're gonna go ahead and give you the top ten announcements from Google i/o 2013 alright Koki get it off at number 10 was Android studio now this is a developer conference so we got a respect that there are a lot of developers there and one of the things they showed off called Android studio was a really impressive sort of console looking thing that allows developers to better manage rendering the size of their applications for basically different screen sizes and different layouts in order to abide by androids design guidelines and it actually looked like a pretty cool thing that'll help us see a lot more quality apps in the Play Store number 9 is notification sync across devices so maybe you have the same app installed on more than one device they'll now be able to take advantage of this API I swipe to dismiss an application in maybe an app called whatsapp on my tablet and my phone will no longer display that notification either so if I have a whole conversation in some messaging app on one device and I pick up the other one I don't want that notification anymore so now that's built in number eight is improvements to Google Chrome a lot of people don't know not only is Android the most popular mobile platform but chrome is the most popular browser period so a lot of improvements went into chrome on both the desktop and mobile and the coolest thing about that what they showed was a demo of this racing game that spanned across multiple devices so they connected all the devices together both iOS and Android devices alike and each device had a player and you touch your screen to control your race car across everyone else's device which is really cool the video moved from device to device the sound of your race car moved from device to device it was really cool and was all going through Google Chrome something that people are probably never going to use but definitely an awesome demo worthy feature anyway number seven is the Google Play Music service it's now called Google Play Music all access which is a bit of a mouthful but I'll just keep calling in google music for now but it's a subscription music service so this puts Spotify on watch for $9.99 a month you get unlimited access to all the songs in Google Play and including the ones you already uploaded of course and if you sign up before June 30 if you actually get it for $7.99 a month and you get a free 30-day trial the service itself looks to be pretty awesome and it might still be us only which is really unfortunate because Google has a habit of not making their services internationally available but nevertheless it's pretty cool and the app itself is also really really good I've been using the app for the past couple of days and I'm going on a trip very soon while I'll be using the app on an airplane so I'm making some playlists and everything like that but it's very smooth very fluid it allows you the ability to create a radio station based off of a specific song or playlist and it just creates an endless playlist of songs for you and you can control the order of the queue and everything but you know endless music discovery that's really what it should be all about so Spotify like I said is on notice because Google Play Music all access has arrived number six is the new Google Plus now a lot of people say no one uses Google Plus and that's fine if you think that but Google Plus whether you like it or not is becoming a huge part of tying all the different services that Google has together so your account whether you post things or share things or not is pretty critical and it's gotten a whole UI refreshed a whole redesign a very neat to multiple column cards layout on the desktops now you won't really be able to say you know it looks different on the desktop from the phone from the tablet now they all look the same and that multiple column UI and it also looks really good you get that holo font to get some nice animations you get some smooth scrolling you get a whole bunch of different smart features where if you automatically upload an album of photos as you go around on vacation it automatically uploads them all in full resolution and you get to automatically enhance them and tag your friends faces in them and it'll combine things together and make panoramas when it notices you have certain pictures and it'll automatically take the best photos that are in focus and when people are smiling and the sharpest best contrast once it's very very smart with your photos and gives you a basic highlight reel of all the best photos you took so maybe you took six hundred photos on one trip it'll give you a highlight reel of the best 50 of them based on what it thinks were awesome so that's pretty cool and like I said there are some neat automatic features like automatic hashtags so if you take a picture of say the Eiffel Tower it'll automatically add the hashtag Eiffel Tower to your post so you can discover more posts that have that same thing in them so if you visit some cool landmarks you'll be able to see stuff like that very cool stuff Google+ has some awesome behind-the-scenes improvements using Google's knowledge graph of course number five is Google Play games Google Play gaming is brand new it's basically really gaming focused in the Play Store and it uses app data sync across devices to make it happen now the live demo on stage didn't really work so well but basically this app data sync will allow you to have the same data inside every application across devices perfect example let's say have Angry Birds on my tablet and on my phone I get to level 30 of Angry Birds on my phone and I want to put it down and move over to the tablet I install it on my tablet and I'm already on level 31 that's how it works you basically get the same achievements and the same unlock everything you had on one app on one device we'll move to that same app on a different device there are also achievements and leaderboards among your google+ friends and there's also multiplayer so what's really cool is you could have three different people running you know an iPhone and iPad and a nexus 10 and they could all race against each other and like nudge the person who's playing their iPad by nudging their car on your screen and they'll be able to see you nudge their car on their iPad it's really cool the multiplayer gaming looks very very neat and there's a lot of games they're gonna support that in the coming months so that's really neat so Google Play games number five pretty solid up like upgrade I'd like where it's going even though I'm not a big gamer on mobile I'll probably be gaming more because of this service number for hangouts it's a multi-platform messaging service you'll get it on the web you'll get it in iOS so get it in Android it's almost everywhere and now this was a very confusing announcement because at first we didn't know if it was replacing certain things or if it was just being added to the list of messaging services Google has but basically over the next couple months it'll be slowly eating up and bringing into itself other Google messaging services so right now the Android app will just replace Google Talk and once you get it working it'll basically start the ability to have multi person comment threads and just hang out with people with text and with video and emojis and all sorts of crazy stuff and the app is very fast it's very fluid I've been using it on Android and it's really useful right now there is no SMS support but we've seen a variety of opinions on whether or not this will actually happen I really hope it does because if it does I'm messages in big trouble but the bottom line is hangouts is now a thing I had a separate explaining video on Google babble explained Google babble was its codename when it was being developed by Google so now that it's a real thing you can check out that video and basically get the gist of everything about Google's hangouts app number three is Google now improvements now Google now is one of the biggest selling points of Android it's one of the most awesome things in the Play Store now it's on iOS and now it's also in Chrome and a lot of the improvements first of all you get some new neat cards where you can have reminders and certain voice commands and things work a lot better and some additional features but also in Chrome it got really neat so basically once the Google now experience comes to Chrome you'll be able to just go to google.com and say ok Google how tall is Barack Obama and it'll give you the same response that it would in Google now for Android so they did a bunch of neat demos and basically it's now more contextually aware so you can have almost a very conversation like thing with it so for example I could say how much does it cost to ride this roller coaster in this park and it will tell me that and then I can say how long will it take to get there from here and you didn't have to name it again when you say there and here it knows you're talking about the roller coaster in the amusement park and when you say here it knows you're talking about your current location so it could tell you this information without you repeating yourself over and over again very cool stuff Google now improvements are definitely gonna be a big help number two the Samsung Galaxy s4 with Android 4.2 pure jellybean on and this one caught us totally by surprise is basically a super Nexus I did a separate video on that not too long ago so if you haven't already seen it definitely click the annotation there or if you can't there's a link below of that like button but basically now there is a galaxy s4 out there in the Play Store it'll be available soon with the pure nexus experience on it straight from Google well I didn't know that Samsung had any reason to do this I didn't know that Google had any reason to do this but now it is officially a thing and yeah it's gonna be delivered through the Play Store you'll be able to get this unlocked with an unlocked bootloader with the same bands as the Nexus 4 on AT&T and t-mobile and you also have LTE support which solves a lot of the complaints that were about the Nexus 4 you also get microSD card slot a removable battery is basically a really really great nexus experience and that galaxy s4 and number one at Google i/o 2013 was the new Google Maps experience this I felt was one of the most overarching awesome improvements of anything we saw a Google i/o I think it was one of the most underrated things a lot of people might be talking about Google Maps as if it's it's pretty neat but it's not all of that but it's awesome Google Maps had a huge amount of improvements this year first of all that new design came to the iOS app that a lot of us Android users were wondering why we didn't get now we're going to be getting that so there's going to be an update for Google Maps for Android and there's also a new Google Maps for desktop so when you visit it on the web and you go to Google Chrome or whatever browser you use and open up Google Maps it's going to be nuts the experience in Google Maps is totally overhauled the search interface is now changed so it gets better travel instructions better more intuitive clicking four locations and everything like that you get a much faster experience so zooming in and out and navigating streets it's all very very smart so if you click on a new location it'll start to highlight the streets between your location and that new location it's really really smart also click on locations we'll give you built in card UI so you'll get Google Offers built in and it's also basically merged in with Google Earth so if you keep zooming all the way in who get to Google Street View and you'll be able to just look at buildings in Google Street view zoom slowly out you'll get to an overhead view and satellite view and you can keep zooming out and at the demo they zoomed all the way out and zoomed out to the full earth floating around the solar system and they pointed out that the clouds were actually being rendered in real-time in that earth which was really awesome very impressive they even kept zooming out and showed the earth in a relative position to the moon and the Sun and the stars in the sky awesome stuff definitely very cool so the whole Google Maps experience is totally revamped there's even a new tablet app and tablet experience there's an explorer button so you can explore new places based on reviews there's a new review system which is that a 5.0 star is integrated with Google+ and Zagat there's a ton a ton of Google+ improvements and that's I think easily one of the most underrated and awesome things that happen at Google Plus Google i/o so yeah there you go a lot of stuff happened at Google i/o 2013 and I'm sure a lot more will be unveiled over the coming days weeks and months a lot of the things people were asking were wait a second usually at Google i/o we see a new version of Android that didn't happen and I'm also expecting that we will see Android 4.3 or maybe even four point two point three jelly bean in the coming months number two whereas the next Nexus 7 I also think we're gonna see that soon in the next coming months perhaps later in the summer we're gonna see a 1080p Nexus an updated version of that and there are a lot of other questions about things that also happen during the event and I'll include as much information as I can in the description below so that's gonna be a goldmine of links and quotes basically but yeah a lot of great stuff happened definitely this year and I'm looking forward to the next couple of months and seeing the way things pan out because not everything is fully baked yet like I said Google Hangouts could really use SMS support and a couple of other things could really use some fine tuning and tweaking but other than that yeah that's it top 10 things from Google i/o 2013 the entire day 1 keynote began with a whole spiel about how successful Google's been and how much they're working with developers to include them in further projects and stuff like Google glass and stuff and how there's been 900 million Android activations but I think the best part of Google i/o was the last part of the day one key know where Google Larry Page came out on stage and gave basically a speech about how the future looks for Google for himself for what he thinks of the tech industry and it was very fitting he kind of gave that speech in front of the floating Google Earth in the background so he was kind of talking about how it feels about the whole world as the globe spun behind him it was very cool and the whole speech was really really great so if you do have a chance to watch what he says during that speech before his Q&A which is also very unique there's a link below to that the whole keynote is on YouTube and you can check out that as well so either way that's been it that's been Google i/o 2013 wrap up slash highlight slash summary video definitely feel free to give a thumbs up if you enjoyed and I will talk to you guys in the very next video thanks for watching guys hey