From making your apps as powerful as they can be to putting them in front of hundreds of
millions of users, our focus at Google is to help you design, develop and
distribute compelling experiences for your users. At Google I/O 2014, happening June
25-26 at Moscone West in San Francisco, we’re bringing you sessions and experiences ranging
from design principles and techniques to the latest developer tools and implementations to
developer-minded products and strategies to help distribute your app.
If you're coming in person, the schedule will give you more time to interact in the Sandbox,
where partners will be on hand to demo apps built on the best of Google and open source, and
where you can interact with Googlers 1:1 and in small groups. Don’t worry, though--we’ll have
plenty of content online for those following along remotely! Visit the schedule on the Google I/O website (and check back often
for updates). As you start your I/O planning, we want to highlight the experiences we’re
working on to help you build and grow your apps:
Breakout sessions: This year, we’ll once again bring you a deep
selection of technical content, including sessions such as "What's
New in Android"and "Wearable
computing with Google” from Android, Chrome and Cloud, and cross-product,
cross-platform implementations. There will be a full slate of design sessions that will bring
to life Google’s design principles and teach best practices, and an update on how our
monetization, measurement and payment products are better suited than ever to help developers
grow the reach of their applications. Sessions from Ray Kurzweil, Ignite and Women Techmakers
will take the stage and make us uncomfortably excited about what is possible. The first
sessions are now listed, keep checking back for more.
Workshops and code labs: Roll up your sleeves, dig in to hands-on
experiences and code. Learn how to build better products, apply quantitative data to user
experiences, and prototype new Glassware through interactive workshops on UX, experience
mapping and design principles. To maximize your learning and give you more interaction with
Googlers and peers, visit our coding work space, with work stations preloaded with self-paced
modules. Dive into Android, Chrome, Cloud and APIs with experts on hand for guidance.
Connect with Googlers in the sandbox: Check out your favorite
Google products and meet the Googlers who built them. From there, join a ‘Box talk or app
review, ranging from conceptual prototyping, to performance testing with the latest tools, to
turning your app into a successful business.
Learn from peers at the partner sandbox: We love to see partners
build cool things with Google, and have invited a few of them to showcase inspiring
integrations of what’s possible. You will be able to see demos and talk in-depth with them
about how they designed, created and grew their apps.
Beyond Moscone, with I/O Extended: Experience I/O around the
world, in an event setting, with I/O Extended. The I/O
Extended events include everything from live streaming sessions from I/O to local speaker
sessions and hackathons. It is great to see so many events taking place around the world, and
we can't wait to see I/O Extended events have another strong year.
We look forward to seeing you next month, whether it’s in-person in San Francisco, at I/O
Extended or online through the livestream!
Katherine
Miller is part of the Developer Marketing team, working on session programming for
Google I/O and developer research efforts. In her spare time she runs (both competitively and
after her 2 children) and memorizes passages from beloved children's books.
By Katie
Miller, Google Developer Marketing