We believe it is the best cross platform toolkit we’ve seen to date, but apps developed in Kotlin/Swift are still so much better. It’s probably best described as “Google’s first class citizen for cross platform development”. Google sometimes appear conflicted on Flutter on one hand they have a great ecosystem in Kotlin + Jetpack Compose, and on the other hand they claim Flutter is a first class citizen. For a developer conference, we were surprised how little of the developer keynote referred specifically to Android development We suspect little attention was applied to this area this year, and it shows. Google announced enhancements to Jetpack Compose, Kotlin and the ability to view Crash reports from the app store directly in Android studio. Based on the demo, Android Studio Bot gets a double thumbs up from us. AI Assistants can really help in the generation of boilerplate code which already utilise features such as size classes and accessibility features. Each feature needs to be designed and coded for, and tested in light mode and dark mode the same applies for multiple screen sizes. This isn’t just coding effort, but design and testing too. Features such as: Ensuring the app works at all orientations and all device sizes, managing adaptive text sizing, providing multiple languages, and properly supporting accessibility become real multipliers of effort. Tapadoo’s Take: One of the things that can really explode the effort of a mobile app are the bells and whistles that Apple/Google like to showcase. Their AI assistant, Bard (based on PaLM2) can write code, and they also demoed “Android Studio Bot”, an AI assistant that works right in the Android Studio Development Environment. Google unveiled their Large Language Model PaLM, along with an API which they are making available to developers. What’s new for DevelopersĪgain, we’re back to AI. We can’t help but think this is aimed squarely as an Alexa competitor. This is exactly what it sounds like: A place to leave the tablet for hands free use such as watching video, which charges automatically, and has a room-filling speaker. The pixel tablet comes with a very nice addition a charging speaker dock. We think these will remain somewhat niche they’ll have a fan base, but most people won’t desire these. ![]() Foldable screens look to us like a solution to a problem nobody has. In the demos, the light reflected off the folding area, meaning the fold doesn’t really ever go away. A demo of using translation that can be read by both the person translating and the person who reads the translation is very compelling but we weren’t wowed by the foldable tech just yet. While the fold is interesting, we like what they’ve done with 2 screens. They also tend to be reasonably priced given the performance. Tapadoo’s Take: We love the pixel phones, as Google devices are quick to receive updates which can be great for our testing. A new Pixel phone (Pixel 7a), a foldable device called the Pixel Fold, and new look Pixel tablet. HardwareĪ number of new devices were announced too. Hard to see why given their EMEA HQ is in Ireland. ![]() Unfortunately, no Bard for us as though launched in 180 regions, Ireland wasn’t one of them. Tapadoo’s Take: This is just the beginning of the massive wave of AI assistants they are finally becoming really useful and will be incorporated into our daily lives very quickly. They showed it working with gmail to help with writing mails, and more. They showed the use of AI in Google’s Office Suite, automatically writing documents, and assisting in writing. They showcased Bard, their ChatGPT competitor, and opened access so there’s no more waiting list. ![]() The launch of ChatGPT seems to have wowed everyone, and made some of the big companies accelerate their AI offerings. I think it is safe to say that 2023 will go down as the year that AI exploded. Here’s our impressions, after the main keynote and developer keynote. As with all of these conferences, we were glued to the screen to see what Google has in store, particularly for Android.Īndroid is, of course, only one of Google's offerings, and each year we keep an eye out to see what new features may be of use to our clients. Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O opened on Monday.
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