Welcome to the latest edition of the Google Tracker, an annual series where we chronicle Google's and Alphabet's attempts to take over every aspect of modern life. With Google I/O happening in just a few days (Wednesday, May 17), we wanted to round up everything we know (or everything we think we know) that Google is working on.
So the following is a heady mix of past announcements, acquisitions, software teardowns, rumors from reliable sources, and some speculation. We're not claiming everything (or anything) in this list will launch at I/O—timing aside, this is simply everything we've heard Google is working on.
Table of Contents
- Android O Developer Preview 2 and other Android features
- "Copyless Paste" comes to Gboard
- Android Pay goes hands free
- Android One comes to the US
- What exactly do "Android Extensions" do?
- Google's two "post-app" projects make progress
- New Android TV and Android Wear features at I/O
- Google Hardware, year two
- The Google Home/Google Wi-Fi combo device
- Three(!) new Pixel phones
- A standalone VR headset
- Things the Google Hardware team should probably make
- Android in your car
- The Google Assistant comes to Android Auto
- Android Automotive—The Android Car OS
- Google's Other OSes
- Fuchsia—Google's second smartphone OS dumps Linux
- Android for PCs—is the "Andromeda" Chrome OS/Android hybrid still happening?
- Google Allo's futile attempt to become relevant
- Google takes on Slack with (yet another version of) Hangouts
- Will Google Play ever arrive in China?
- Chrome gets an ad blocker?!
- Material Design on the Web
- Alphabet's "fiscal discipline era" starts a moonshot massacre
- Waymo—Building a totally-integrated self-driving vehicle solution
- Verily—The "Google Healthcare" division is actually doing well
- Calico—Death still isn't cured
- DeepMind would like to play a game
- Will Nest ever ship a new product?
- Sidewalk Labs wants to build... a smart city?!
- Is anything left of ATAP?
- The futuristic Google Campus is finally under construction
- Tune in May 17 for even more Googleyness!
Android O Developer Preview 2 and other Android features
Just like last year, the big Android developer preview release happened before I/O, taking a bit of the excitement out of the event. The first Android O Developer Preview launched in March, so what's left for I/O? Google published a roadmap for future Android O releases and slotted the second developer preview in between "May" and "June." Conveniently, that happens to be when Google I/O is. We'd say it's a lock for the second preview to be introduced at the show.
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