WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE GOOGLE I/O 2018

From competitive tools to simple enhancements, new features will be unveiled by Google at this week's I / O conference. Here are the few essential elements.

---The I / O conference: an opportunity for Google news---

This May 8th from 7 pm will begin the next Google I / O conference. This edition, which will take place in the Shoreline Amphitheater of the firm, will be an opportunity to discuss formally and in more detail the upcoming news about Google, its subsidiaries, software or hardware. In this traditional period of technological revelation, as well as Apple with its "WWDC" or Microsoft with its "Build", the Mountain View giant is relying on this I / O 2018 to present its new interface Material Design 2, in which Android P swaps the old side menus for navigation bars at the bottom of the screen.
The tool wins the passage a system of sign language navigation, a tool already known as a classic on iPhone X. Artificial intelligence is at the heart of the news and development, research in progress in the workshops of Mountain View and their applications will also be revealed.

---Tools under study to compete with Amazon and Apple---

Google also wants to retry the boxing experience, with a Chromecast 4K running directly on Android TV. The novelty is to turn the current passive Chromecasts into more responsive systems that work with a remote control. The project is underway, the certification having already been obtained from the FFC. Side news, the firm plans to recapture Google News, a future competitor Apple News whose AMP system will obviously be integrated into the new Android. In terms of design, Google Chrome will be in the spotlight with a revamped visual and menus optimized for touch screens.

The current operating system for connected watches, WearOS (formerly Android Wear) will benefit from new features, also unveiled at the May 8 I / O. In the face of competition from Amazon Echo, new e-commerce partnerships are being studied to improve the Google Assistant. The program is loaded and the list above is anything but exhaustive, Google will reveal us suprises!