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Google I/O 2014 schedule

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Here's hoping they announce a different, more usable fork of the Google Glass operating system and SDK, because the currently-public Glass software has gone far off the rails, and is in worse shape feature-wise than it was a year ago at the last Google I/O. As a developer and power user who made a serious attempt to make Glass work, I am pissed at how Google has handled this so far.

Well, a year ago the GDK wasn't even out yet so I'm not sure I'd say that.

But since XE16 Glass has taken a step backwards both in daily usability, and from a dev perspective (no more static cards from GDK apps? Touchpad no longer scrolls ListViews? and so on...)

A year ago, you could at least ignore the whole GDK mess and run regular Android apps, with a bluetooth keyboard/touchpad. But XE12 (the December update) broke the Android dialog-box API, and XE16 removed both external keyboard support and the ability to navigate Android apps with gestures.

Just curious what does this mean to the new users of Glass? Don't update?

Updates cannot be refused. If you root your device and reflash with an old version, you will find the updater is extremely aggressive and can't be disabled. On top of that, once a device has had XE16 installed on it, XE11 (the last version that I found acceptable) and earlier versions are rendered unbootable.

Not being able to search the descriptions of all the talks is a bit annoying. It looks like clicking on a talk fetches the description and other data from the server, so I can't even search the initial loaded js/html to find what I want.

(specifically I'm trying to find out which talks are focusing on Dart and Go, and I can't find any way to actually do that).

Also, I like how some of the speaker photos are 20MB PNG files that have been resized in CSS to about 120px wide. For those keeping score at home, that's more than 1KB of data per displayed pixel.

Yes, the searchability does not appear to be great :/

Dart sessions are called out here, FYI: https://plus.google.com/+dartlang/posts/VV11S22FvLr

Edit: copying the list here.

Connecting Cloud to Web https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule/session/c1d65645-3...

Upgrading the engine mid-flight https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule/session/22e6b6c0-c...

How we built the Chrome Dev Editor https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule/session/3888155e-3...

Making music with the mobile web https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule/session/6f73856f-9...

Seems like they're making a lot more of an a big deal about polymer and web components than dart. You can find those right away just from the titles.

Seems like this one will involved Dart.

"Upgrading the engine mid-flight: How Google improves its web apps without downtime"

At a glance I saw no sessions on Go.

Well, they did just sponser GopherCon a few weeks ago. I suspect that in order to drive adoption they don't want it to be perceived as a Google-specific technology.

I didn't see any on App Engine either. Strange...

App Engine is rolled under the cloud services. Drill down into the description of some of the Cloud Services talks; you'll probably find App Engine mentioned.

Looking forward to the sessions about ART, Game development and what might come in terms of new tooling.

At a glance, IO2014 seems clearly focussed on:

- Design.

- Pushing Chrome/ Web apps

- Games and wearables on Android

Seems like the start of pushing mWeb instead of apps for consuming web content.

glad there are a good number of talks on wearables. I hope they announce a better looking Glass though. As much as I love using Glass, it's just not aesthetically pleasing.

Same goes for other wearables like smart watches - needs more emphasis on design than just a display slapped on to a watch strap.

What I actually like about Google IO, it's its geekness. From homepage to the actual event. Also, Google has proven that geekness could have aesthetics.

Irrelevant but I like how the two scrollbars overlap each other when you scroll down far enough.

Are all the times shown in PST?

Any news on the rumour that there will be a nexus 8 announcement at the con?

I'd really want to hear the whole "rumor" speculation about this consumer-level Glass launch at Q4 of 2014 which is again speculated at a much cheaper price. Will they "exchange" my explorer edition if I buy it now...that's always the hard question.

No new Nexus devices?

I would assume they would be in the keynote?

EDIT: just checked: only hardware they unveiled in the 2013 keynote was a Google Play Edition Galaxy S4, but in 2012 they introduced the Nexus 7, among other things.

Unlikely, but possible.

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