19 May 2011

Google I/O 2011: Keynote Day One & Two

If you have at least a little interest in Google's Android platform, you MUST watch these!

They announced Android 3.1 (Honeycomb). More importantly Android 3.1 is not only for tablets, it is for Google TV as well! Google TV is getting the the Android Market

 

 


 

27 Oct 2010

Google TV is coming to 10,000 lucky developers

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Google TV is coming to 10,000 lucky developers

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 | 12:07 PM

 

 

Google TV is now available in Best Buy and Sony Style stores across the nation, as well as online through Amazon.com. We’re excited that consumers are finally taking these out of the box and have been hearing a lot of positive early feedback. And while people may think that Google TV is great now, we can’t wait for them to see what’s coming.
 
First and foremost, as with Android for mobile, we’ll continually push new system updates with new features and bug fixes as they become available. But just as important, we are focusing our efforts on empowering the developers of the world to make Google TV an even better experience, through websites that have been built with the TV screen in mind.
 
For users, better-looking and more interesting websites means that the overall Google TV experience is even better. We want to encourage a new generation of TV developers to come forward to make this vision a reality. Which is why, over the next few weeks, we’re planning to give away 10,000 Google TV devices to help developers start building for TV.
 
This morning, we gave away more than 3,000 Google TV devices to attendees of the Adobe MAX conference. Additionally, we’ll be reaching out to thousands of web developers in the Google Code community to offer them a free device. Finally, if you are a professional web developer who wants to help make the Google TV experience even better and you don’t happen to fall into one of those two groups, please submit an entry to our Google TV Web Developer Promotion and include a short summary about the type of interesting website your company would like to create or optimize for Google TV. We’re planning to select 2,500 winners from those entries to receive a free Google TV device.

We can’t wait to see the new sites people will build. Until then, check out some of the latest Spotlight sites that have just launched on Google TV. A few of our favorites include Net-A-Porter, which lets you watch runway videos and shop for high fashion; Meegenius, a place where you can read and customize children’s books; TuneIn, a personal radio for your TV; and The Onion which always gives us a good laugh.

As we’ve always said, the coolest thing about Google TV is that we don’t even know what the coolest thing about it will be. The experience is in the hands of its users and developers, and everyone is invited. Come play.

Posted by Amanda Surya, Google TV Developer Relations Team

 

via googletv.blogspot.com

I'm hoping I can get one of these babies!

19 Oct 2010

Developing AIR Apps for the TV

Imaging building an application that runs on any computer, the iPhone, iPad, Android mobiles and tablets, AND on the TV!

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Well Adobe is doing that! Using their AIR framework, a developer can write an app that runs on one platform, and then be able to repurpose most of that code, so it can run on all of the other platforms.

Click here to view the sneak peak at AIR for TV!

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11 Jun 2010

Flash Player 10.1 on Google TV

I think this is FREAKING AWESOME! Can't wait to get my hands on one of these!!!

21 May 2010

Android becomes a Man, but is it Ready to be the King? And Google TV is born!

Androids

Over the last couple of days, it has been interesting to say the least with all of the exciting news coming from the Google I/O (Developer) conference. It was rather amusing to see a large number of fair & well-deserved smart remarks directed at Apple, iPhones & iPads.

Day 1, the big news was the Chrome Web App Store.

Day 2, it was all about the little green dude... Android! The Android OS seems to have finally matured past the point of playing catch up with Apple's iPhone and now seems to be setting its own agenda.

 

Android 2.2 (FroYo) Developer's Note:

  1. Speed - faster VM & JIT compiler 2x-5x faster apps
  2. Enterprise - 20 new features including Exchange support
  3. Data Backup API
  4. Cloud-to-Device Messaging API
  5. Tethering and wireless hotspot
  6. A better Browser:
    • V8 video. 
    • The Android browsers dusted the iPad browser hands down in decoding JavaScript. 
    • Eventually web apps will be able to access the device hardware such as the camera & accelerometer. 
    • Flash Player 10.1 support within the Browser. 
  7. Android Market - Search can search within apps and removable storage. 
  8. Apps on SD. 
  9. Application can be set to auto-update. 
  10. A stack trace reporting feature for developers to better help with debugging. 
  11. Android Market account tied to devices. 
  12. Devices will be able to download application OTA (Over-The-Air) directly from your computer. 
  13. Music is now purchasable on the Android Market!
  14. Non-DRMed music purchased on iTunes will be able to play on your Android device.
  15. AdSense for Mobile Ads - Google's counter Apple's iAds I'm sure. Expandable ad formats within apps which can use maps and the click-to-call feature.

CNET's Stephen Shankland: "Basically, Google is working to reproduce iTunes abilities with just a browser, no iTunes." 

 

Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.

Imagine your computer, mobile phone and TV viewing experiences all being blurred together. This is exactly what Google is doing! Its a fact a large quantity of people spend hours of time watching YouTube on their computers and mobiles, now imagine watching that on your 1080p HD TV. Lets take it one step further, how about watching that YouTube clip and then sharing it with your buddy from your TV. Its no longer a dream, its coming later this year (Fall 2010) to a BestBuy near you. 

 

What you need to know about Google TV:

  • Running the Android OS + Chrome Browser
  • Will be integrated with with Sony TVs that are coming out.
  • Will be available as a standalone box (thanks to Logitech) and will work with your current TV. Will require a keyboard & pointing device. 
  • Better searchability of the program you like. 
  • More interactivity with your favorite programs. 
  • Allows your to record future episodes of your favorite shows and ties directly to Amazon Video so you can purchase previous episodes. 
  • Access to Android Apps! You will be able to login to your Android Market account, buy an app on your phone or computer & have it automatically downloaded to your Google TV.
  • You can watch YouTube directly on your Google TV.
  • Will be able to interact with Facebook, Pandora, Flickr, etc...
  • NOTE: your Android phone can be used as a remote control.
  • You will be able to login to your Android Market account, buy an app & have it automatically to your Google TV.
  • Watch & listen to your podcasts directly on you Google TV. Podcast via Google Listen (http://listen.googlelabs.com/). 
  • Notably: the NBA.com has create a Google TV site that allows for more interactivity while you consume sport. This is the future!

 

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Google TV Developer's Note:

  • Developers will be able to build both Android apps as well as Web apps and access them on Google TV.
  • Google TV currently runs on Android 2.1 & has the Google Chrome browser & Flash Player 10.1.
  • The SDK will be released early 2011.
  • Best part... its all OPEN SOURCE! This will happen late 2011.

 

Adobe AIR for Android Developer's Note: its nice having a little green guy and Google as friends! 

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Ever since Apple decided to take their arrogance to the next level and Google joined Adobe's Open Screen Project, this really have panned out well for Flash and AIR Platform Developers. Yesterday, Google pretty much said Flash is part of Android.

WARNING: As a Flash/AIR developer, you now have the responsibility to optimize your all of content so that it runs well across all device. If users have a bad experience with Flash on these Android-based devices it will reflect bad on ALL Flash content. 

So what does this mean to you as an Adobe Flash or AIR developer?
  1. You can develop Android apps using AIR for Android which is now in beta (developer access only). SIGN UP HERE!
  2. As a Flash Developer, you can develop Flash Apps and content (720p & 1080p videos) for Google TV. READ MORE HERE...
  3. AIR for Android will work on Google TV eventually. Top priority is optimizing AIR for Android on mobiles.
  4. General tips for designing websites to work on Google TV

 

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