The First Day Fei-Fei Li Was Not at GDD, I Missed Her
GDD: I/O conference has an update patch
Last year's GDD Google Developer Day had a lot of important news releases, such as the then Chief Scientist of Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Fei-Fei Li, announcing the official establishment of the Google AI China Center, which was also the first AI research center established by Google in Asia.
However, at the 2018 GDD Google Developer Conference Day, Google seemed to have no interest in making big news. In today's speech session, there were almost no "important and strategically significant" updates.
Even in the sharing session at the main venue this morning, many products, in addition to some updates on user data, were the content of the I/O conference held in Mountain View in May this year.
GDD Today's Highlights
AI & TensorFlow
Anna Goldie, who made a stunning appearance at GDD last year in fluent Mandarin, appeared again. She said that as of now, TensorFlow has been downloaded more than 17 million times, with more than 39,000 commits, 8,500 pull requests, more than 1,600 contributors, and a total download volume of more than 2 million times.
TensorFlow’s official WeChat public account currently has over 70,000 subscribers.
Flutter
In this section, Tao Dong, senior user experience researcher at Flutter, introduced that Google has launched Flutter Release Preview 2, which is also the last preview version before the official version 1.0.
At the same time, it also introduces some usage cases of major domestic companies, such as Xianyu and JD.com.
Android
Chet Haase, technical director of Android toolkit, is mainly responsible for the Android part. He said that in the past two years, the number of Android developers has tripled, and Google Play has helped Chinese developers increase their revenue threefold.
It also introduces important updates on Android 9 pie, Android Jetpak, Kotlin, Google play target and Android studio.
Wear OS
China is the world's second largest market for Wear OS by Google. In response to the needs of developers and consumers, Wear OS by Google has launched a series of new features, such as the ability to quickly display the most important messages and notifications to smartwatch users, rich health and fitness information, and Mobvoi Chinese Assistant is also on standby at all times, ready to provide assistance to users.
Best of the Show: Thousands of People Play Guess the Picture Song
Today, the mini app "Guess the Painting" which has been trending on the Internet for a while now has launched a "Play with Friends" function, which allows users to invite their WeChat friends to play together and guess the painting within 90 seconds.
At the same time, a set of data released by Google showed that "Guess the Painting" has been used by more than one million users in the two months since its launch, and the number of paintings guessed correctly by AI has reached 500 million.
So before today's speech session officially began, as a warm-up, Google launched a live "Guess the Picture Song" game competition, inviting more than 2,000 audience members to participate at the same time.
Finally, the top 3 and top 64 were selected and given souvenirs. In this process, many soul painters were born. These two rounds of games with thousands of people quickly stimulated the atmosphere of the event.
However, judging from the overall activities of the day, this warm-up game seemed to be the climax of the whole day's activities. Thinking back to last year's GDD, Google was still very sincere.