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news conference Google I / O to unify
the course of design and tight integration of most products old and new.
A
tough year for mobile application developers continues. First Apple iOS
thoroughly shoveled the eighth version, forcing the creators to think about the
applications previously unheard of things like widgets. Then, Samsung
introduced the same Tizen-Smartphone and now, I suppose, will actively
encourage programmers to write applications for it. And now Google, set the
heat developers with innovations Android 4.4 KitKat, made it clear that these
were the seeds. True, the full announcement of the new OS did not happen, and
what will be the next sweet dessert, we learn only in the autumn. But a
preliminary version of Android L is about to become available to developers for
experimentation. And the field for experiments represented the widest.
Firstly,
Google unifies the design of their products, including online services, such as
search interfaces Android and Chromebook, using "real design" -
Material Design. It is based on rectangular tiles are animated so that their
interaction and movement were similar to the movement of objects in the real
world, with thin fonts, graphics and concise flat lot of free space to create a
visual overload. In all of this somehow felt the spirit of Windows Phone, but
no direct visual and functional analogies not just designers were guided by the
same assumptions about human perception of information.
It
is worth noting that the Material Design should unify the interaction with
smart appliances of all sizes - from watches to cars and televisions.
"Rectangular tiles", as you may guess, often cards Google Now. By the
way, Google announced the development in all these areas: full-fledged TV
platform Android TV released in the future, Sony and Sharp, and make friends
with Android cars are going to Audi, Chevrolet, Chrysler and even Bentley.
Thereby, announced in winter Open Automotive Alliance can start working on the
implementation of specific technology. Android Auto also works in the paradigm
previously entered service Apple - the car should be "interface" to
the resources of the smartphone, and all communication must take into account
issues of safety, do not distract the driver.
The
platform will allow Android Wear interact with your smartphone via smart hours.
The toolkit is already known - Google Now cards on the screen, simple gestures
to work with them, voice control for more complex cases. Hours LG now available
to order, more elegant version of Motorola will have to wait until mid-July.
Complementing the picture another platform - Android Fit, which allows a
standardized data exchange between Android-devices and fitness applications.
A
snack is another amazing news - cheap and simple Chromebook laptops can run
some Android-app. This can be seen as recognition of Google to the fact that
the world is not quite ready for a laptop, on which there is only one web
browser, and you can - as one more step to building a complete, integrated
ecosystem of Android devices, which is somewhere between a TV and a clock
should be and laptops.
Google
idea is very logical and ambitious. Of course, companies like Google to have
weighty presence in all segments of the electronics market perspective, be it
televisions, computers, watches and gaming consoles. In this case, the user
needs to provide standardized as much as possible similar interface, regardless
of whether the person works with a clock or tablet.
Important
"but" here are a few. Like to "card" interface to
consumers? Let's See. Experience Microsoft said it like it is not everything.
Whether application developers to effectively use the new interface to all
kinds of devices, will be engaged if any mass production, for example,
applications for hours? It is not yet obvious. And the main question - whether
the unification of the interface and control methods is necessary? After all,
each device has its own size and mode of use of which already follow the
requirements for human interaction.
