Google IO 2018' Keynotes Highlights

4 min readMay 9, 2018

Hey Developers from all over the world. GoogleIO 2018 is happening at Shoreline Ampitheater , CA on 8th May 2018. For those who doesn’t know what GoogleIO is — “It is 3 days long event from the Google to bring all the developers and tech industry from all over the world and share/showcase their plans .”

(L) GoogleIO 2018 Badge ; (R) GoogleIO 2018 Swag kit

The most important part of the Google IO is Keynote by Sundar Pichai. Where they share their achievements and future plans for the Google as the company , for communities and Developers around their products and technologies.

Two majors bugs were fixed last year by Google Team :)

Burger’s cheese position is fixed and fixed the physics law of beer foam.

This year’s highlights are:

Theme : Information is very useful and hence Google is going to work on make it more useful and accessible to the world.

Information more useful, accessible and useful for world.

#1 Google Home +assistant

New technology *wavenet* to improve the assistant voices.
6 new voices in assistant is available
Just say Hey Google and after that you can have contextual — *continue conversation*
multiple actions — You can now ask assistant to do multiple task in 1 action
Pretty please — For families with kids. Kids can ask assistant to do work by adding ‘Please’
Smart Display
Through Google assistant you can order foods — Dunkin donuts, Starbucks and many more are partners.
New visual experiences of assistant on your android phone will be out.
Google Maps — share ETA etc with just voice. The Google assistant in google maps this summar
Google assistant can make the calls on your behalf for appointments and in very natural language.

#2 Artificial Intelligence

AI is doing marvellous job in Healthcare
AI is able to predict patient timeline based on different parameters
AI is able to predict the problems which a doctor can also.
AI is for Accessibility — looking to listen . Audios + visual cue
Gmail new design [smart compose of emails ]

#3 Digital well Being

Dashboard — on your phone to show you how much time you are spending on which app.
kids — You can make your devices more kids friendly
Notifications digest — Now, silent the notifications in which better way
Google News initiative — New and Improved Google News is launched

#4 Google News

AI Powered and redesign Google News
With Global you can also have Local news and events
Based on Google material design Theme.
Newscasts — preview of the story
Full coverage — Can get into the depth of the news and how it is covered .
Newstand — publications to follow and check no more sign-in only gaccount *Subscribe to Google*
Available in 127 countries

#5 Android P