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I'm Patrick Norton.

And this morning Google dropped the needle on I/O 2014.

Google's annual, Hey Developers and the rest of the world,

here's what's coming from us.

First big news is what's now.

1 billion active users per month up from 538 million

at last year's I/O. And while KitKat, that's the operating

system not the candy, is only on 15% of the Android

devices in use right now, it's no big surprise that Google

announced the next version of Android,

the L Verson of Android at Google I/O this morning.

No cool sugary name yet.

I guess licorice, lollipop, lemonhead,

and lima bean weren't awesome enough.

But Google says Android L will pack in 5,000 new APIs.

Those are the little bits that let

developers do a cool thing with the operating system.

The Dalvik Virtual machine is going away.

This is good in favor of ART, the Android run time.

That's the core of the operating system.

Google claims ART will make Android run twice as fast.

It will be all kinds of native on ARM, x86, and MIPS,

offer better garbage collection, RAM management,

and new graphics features for gamers.

So better gaming, better performance.

I'm excited.

This is a good thing.

Developers of the Nexus 5 or 7 will

be able to run L starting June 26th.

I want it on my Moto G just to get notifications

I can act on, on the lock screen.

By the way, there's going to be new easier ways

to unlock your phone from trusted locations or Bluetooth

devices.

It all sounds really subtle and really convenient.

One less password swipe is me getting

the tunes playing and the map running

in my car that much faster.

It's a good thing.

Something much less subtle, well, it

is subtle from a design sense.

But it's still in your face is Google's material design.

"A new consistent design approach."

Google is going in the opposite direction of Apple it seems.

Our material is grounded in tactile reality inspired

by our study of paper and ink, yet

open to imagination and magic.

Grad students ART using the sides, it kind of sounds goofy.

But it has the potential to finally deliver

quality user interfaces across all Google's products.

This promises to inform Google UI everywhere, Android phones

and tablets online, at Gmail calendar, Google Plus,

and I'd expect the two new Android

platforms Google announced today.

The first Android TV for smart TV apps and navigation.

The first hardware is going to come from Sony and Sharp.

Voice search to find live TV or Google

Play movies and shows and Android games

re-imagined for TV.

That's a shot across the bow in Microsoft

and the Xbox and pretty much everything

else on the planet that connects to a television.

And it sounds like that it might be

more open to working with non-Google Play

sources of video.

Something Amazon's fire TV has utterly, miserably failed at.

The second new platform, Android Auto.

Google's goal is very simple here.

Car and phone integrated seamlessly.

Natch, right?

Google worked with auto manufacturers

and other partners to strip down and refine Android

to kind of re-envision how Android will work.

Google Maps made easier.

Touch targets, simplified interfaces,

"The idea of a conversational operating system with your car.

" Like conversational OS?

Well, the idea that you're going to talk

to your car in a simple and managed way.

You can set reminders while you're driving, for example,

by talking at your car and not taking

your hands off the wheel.

This is all going to be about making Google Now more useful.

I'm really curious to see if checking traffic and getting

directions or just changing tunes

is going to be easy as Google has implied.

This new operating system, the Android Auto

is going to hit this fall.

And Android Auto ready cars will be around

at the end of this year.

Google suggests you have a powerful handset

since the screen in the car is really

being casted by your phone.

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Me, I'm getting ready to fire up Sherlock Holmes

for the next road trip with the boys.

The boys, by the way, will not be getting their hands

on the new Android Wear devices.

One's six, one's two.

You can pre-order the Samsung Gear Live and LG G watch.

Today, yes, get jellyfish warnings,

estimates of commute times, music, say OK Google.

And reply to text messages, tracking calories,

kill the fitbit.

Ask Google questions.

Find out what song is playing.

Google says, "Most people check their phones

more than 150 times a day, often to read a text,

look at the notification, or get some other single piece

of information.

That's a lot of time spent unlocking, swiping,

and entering passwords when your hands could easily

be free handling more important things."

I like the concept.

But we'll see how it goes.

We're also really curious to see if the Moto 360 is

as big is it looks when it arrives later this summer.

Speaking of big, Android won.

"Smartphones for under $100 available in India this fall."

Android operating system, duh, the operating system

will be updated by Google, not the local carrier.

So is a good thing.

Hardware reference platforms will be inspected by Google

to help manufactures build low cost

phones for developing markets fast.

Or as Google put it, for the next billion.

Google's thinking global people.

A little smaller, say your living room,

Chromecast was mentioned.

Later this year, Google's Wii Android powered HDMI streaming

stick will get Android mirroring.

Finally, you'll be able to see what's

on your phone or tablet on your TV.

Backdrop, AKA, a customizable home screen is coming.

And people will be able to stream to your cast

without having to be on your Wi-Fi network.

That's kind of cool.

Other tidbits dropped in a link, the keynote

included Project Volta, Google's efforts

to improve battery life for all Android devices.

The news of the Chrome OS is going

to get the ability to run native Android

applications eventually.

And Drive For Work, AKA, unlimited storage

on Google Drive for $10 a month, which

is going to include enterprise friendly controls

and tools to help managers track employee's work.

Huh.

I don't know how I feel about being tracked.

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