Google gives us a look at how Notifications will work on Android Wear OS

Google’s been letting the details of Android Wear trickle out pretty slowly. First the company released a flashy video teasing the new wearables OS. Then we went behind the scenes with Android Wear earlier this month, and now Google has released a new video highlighting how the OS will support third-party app notifications.

Any app currently running on Android will automatically work with Android Wear, but to full take advantage of the new platform developers will have to work with a few extra lines of code. Notifications for the new OS will come in three forms: Stacks, Pages and Replies. Stacks group together multiple notifications from the same app in case multiple emails or messages come in at once, while Pages lets you include multiple info cards in a single notification. Finally, Replies are what let you interact with notifications on Android Wear. It’s similar to actionable notifications in regular Android, but focuses on voice recognition rather that typing or swiping.

We also get to see Android Wear in action, and get a sense of how navigation within the app will work. It looks like you’ll be able to swipe up and down to scroll through a mix of notifications and Google Now-based contextual updates. If you want to interact or learn more about a specific card just swipe to the right to pull up more options. We’re sure app developers will find ways to differentiate themselves in Android Wear, but it seems like Google is doing its best to promote a uniform UI.

Google is going to Redisign android completely

 

Android is an open platform where you can edit each and every corener of the interface as of your wish. Still, Google is allegedly working to completely redesign the entire mobile operating system in an effort to make sure all of its apps across all platforms look and operate similarly.

New reports from many websites confirms that Google is going to name its new design “QUANTUM PAPER”

 

a report from Android Police explained that Google isn’t just looking to make sure all of its own apps and user interfaces look uniform, but that the company will also provide tools so that developers can make sure that their apps reflect the same design language. Polymer, a kit of dev tools that are already available, may play a huge role in future of Android. In the end, apps designed for iOS, Android and Chrome (and other places on the Web) will all offer similar design traits. You can see what we mean in the screenshots above, which show different versions of Gmail for the Web and for Android. The shots were first revealed by Geek.com in April.

Apparently Quantum Paper is going to hit Android devices when Google decides to release the next full version of Android. We’re on KitKat right now, so it’s expected to hit whenever Android L makes its debut — and we don’t know when that will be. Google I/O kicks off soon, but it seems like it may be a bit early to hear about this total redesign.

Google Project Tango Tablet Announced!

Google’s 3D mapping Project Tango initiative isn’t just focused on our smartphones. The search giant on Thursday announced its technology will be used in tablets, too, with a new development kit designed to expand Google’s efforts to map anything and everything.

The tablet itself, well, looks like a tablet, but it comes with all the bells and whistles necessary for 3D mapping. On the front rests a 120 degree camera, and on the rear there are three different sensors: one for taking pictures, one for tracking motion, and one for capturing depth, similar to what we saw on the HTC One (M8). Inside Google has equipped the device with a Tegra K1 chip, 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. A pretty beastly tablet in its own right, but built specifically for Project Tango—not for you and me to tote around to Starbucks.

Announced in February, Google’s Project Tango is being developed out of Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group, which also helped with Project Ara. The initiative is basically meant to “give mobile devices a human-like understanding of space and motion through advanced sensor fusion and computer vision, enabling new and enhanced types of user experiences.”

The technology has thus far been living inside a prototype smartphone, but now it’s available in a more powerful and larger gadget. That’ll presumably give developers better tools to capture and process their surroundings, ultimately helping them create better experiences. Project Tango is currently an experiment, but with some further development, the technology could one day help us create more sophisticated mapping applications.

Like the smartphone prototype, Google’s new tablets will not be available to consumers, and will be available in limited quantities.

Google to spend $1 Billion for Wi-Fi Satellites

One of the reports from The Wall Street Journal stated that Google has plans to spend more than $1 billion on Wi-Fi-beaming satellites, though details are not yet officially announced. The search giant reportedly wants to send 180 small, high-capacity satellites up into orbit—lower than traditional satellites—that would bring Internet to places that currently don’t have access . The budget could rise to as high as $3 billion depending on how many satellites Google eventually launches.

Google reveals its self driving car !

We’ve all heard about Google’s self driving cars, but the company recently took one step closer to creating a mass consumer automotive that has no need for human control. Earlier this week Google unveiled its latest self driving car prototype and it ditches the parts that we’re all used to, like steering wheels, accelerator pedals, brake pedals and more. Why? Because Google thinks they’re no longer necessary.

“Our software sensors do all the work,” Google’s director of the self driving car project Chris Urmson said. “The vehicles will be basic – we want to learn from them and adapt them as quickly as possible – but they will take you where you want to go at the push of a button. And that’s an important step toward improving road safety and transforming mobility for millions of people.”