Android app will be able to react to your environment currently

If where you have had to know the app on your mobile phone, or you were doing, to What 's close, but if the weather was any such thing to the outside, and, your current situation Do you combine this information to respond to intelligently? Could it be weird or wonderful? We will find out soon, it is so. In this week's Google I / O conference, the company, they have introduced a new tool for that in the current context will be able to create an application to customize yourself and app developers of the user.

For example, streaming music application displays the energetic playlist when you connect your headphones, you can start jogging.

Or, app can issue a warning to stop by the pharmacy to pick up your medicine - but, you are in the vicinity of the store, it would be so only if it was driving, and the store is not actually open year.

In order to enable these types of smarter applications, Google is its I / O conference has introduced a new will be available immediately after the wrap "Awareness of the API".

For example, access to the user's position, they are now, such as the recognition that you are driving your car - in fact, this API, via the other API, available in previous it combines a variety of functions. It also, it means that you can device and interoperability, such as Android Wear of use of the data from things like smartwatches or Chromecast of (Google cast) and Google's new smart speaker,, Google home, close to the beacon and you can sense the device.

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Google, this feature, as a method that may be implemented in future applications, in addition to the above example, we suggested a number of use cases.

For example, in a smarter alarm clock app, to stay until the night before, your first meeting, I was able to decide when to awaken you based on how the second half at the time of the day.

The weather application, Chromecast senses plugged into your bedroom TV, was able to predict the weather for the day on the screen.

Assistant of the application, you can evoke the Google home to tell that the time has come to leave for a calendar event.

App running immediately even if you forgot to start tracking function, there is a possibility to log a run for you.

Because it knows that you take a lot of nature pictures outdoors, the launcher application when you're outside, you can put the front and center of your camera app. And when you want to snap a photo, as an added bonus, it will be tagged weather and activities and it. This is because, as can be searched later, become a part of the photo of the meta-data, "shooting outdoor photos of the running, it was sunny outside."

Developers If you use more than one API, some of these features, it was previously possible. However, Google or drain the battery, the device can be slowly run to use the amount of RAM due to the increase, according to the conditions, I explained that it is calling for more of the API.

This is, even if the user is to uninstall it from their mobile phone, perhaps frustrated in the app, it may lead to.

Masu-around of API

The new consciousness API is, then, not only offers the convenience to request all of the information about the status of the more easily a user, while optimizing for the health of the system, so be it. It or slow the app is a mobile phone, without killing the battery, it means that you get smarter.

App to react to the current situation (fence API), you can request information about the current context of the other user (snapshot API) 1 - consciousness of the API, is actually two separate API It contains.

Google proposed example is interesting sound of is the inspiring part is a little less of the early access use cases of the implementation real world by partners who had to API.



The real estate app Trulia is, for example, uses the API for smart to push notification. It you are walking, and only in the case of a close, it alerts you to visit the open house, is, it's nice outside.

Runkeeper is, you will be able to tag an article running in the current weather.

In order to Gurabuhabu and aviary also personalize their apps, it has been take advantage of the weather.

Latin American music streaming app Superplayer music, however, I'm looking forward to a little more. It is you, you will propose the music based on the location of what you're doing. If it becomes your only gym, it is you, for example, than if you are trying to start a road trip, and proposes a different music.



It will be you to display the right app at the right time meaning - and the Android launcher Nova is to be context aware, we are considering rewriting the app.

When you create an awareness of context mobile experience, in many cases, Yahoo won in 2014. However, people are, so far is their mobile phone of the user interface, with a launcher, the form of like a high-speed flight of the launcher, which has been resistance with overhaul in response to its surroundings, other start-up has been attempted before Thing.



It is to become embedded in the more deeply the app itself, which is why it makes sense for this situational awareness. Instead, they ask you to re-adjust the way you use your mobile phone to the user, experience of using a mobile phone is just notification is smarter, as can be less troublesome, what app doing in response to that, the better and more seamless interoperability with other devices around you.

Tally, credit card, raises $ 15M (1500 million) for the application in order to facilitate an inexpensive management

San Francisco-based tally Technologies, fee, while avoiding the expenses and other credit card membership pain, in venture financing of Series A for people to start a promise application in order to help maintain a good credit $ 15M (1500 million) was raised. Shasta Ventures, led the Series A, previous patron of the company took part - cowboy Ventures and AITV. Silicon Valley Bank also has investment.

According to the tally, CEO and co-founder Jason Brown, to the company has been operating in the longer stealth than this year, it has been tested a beta customer and the service of about three months.

Here, the work of the tally app, Brown describes how are as follows. User is allowed to start to pay these bills from being issued to the credit of the tally line, through a simple credit score check, it is possible to scan all of their personal credit cards to tally you.

"Average and of. Capita 3.7" Brown said, "Most of the adults in the United States, have more than one personal credit card" and, at least 4 out of 10 of all US households, late fees racking, and carry the balance of your credit card, you pay the interest.

8 employees of start-up, the customer is you can avoid all of the late fees and other expenses of these, all of them offers the April to slightly lower position than the average in April of their cards. If customers do not pay off their entire tally balance, the company will make money in April under the, again, they are the amount, will the customer had to pay other banks This promises to be lower than the thing.

Previously, cowboy Ventures has led the seed round of $ 2 million company. Managing Director Sean Flynn of Irene Lee and Shasta Ventures of cowboy Ventures is, will sit on top of the tally of the board. Flynn said, in order to make start-up the service is widely known, and through a phased deployment, in order to bring the user to the application, he said that the plan to use the funding of its Series A.


Tully also, it is possible to provide a credit line, because there is a need to raise institutional capital from there, the customer is, proved to be a good credit risk, we need to develop a partnership in the financial industry there is.

As a company, Shasta was shunned from face the challenge of alternative investment to, or the lending club is now under surveillance peer-to-peer lending platforms such as prosperity, and serious growth away.

Flynn, whether they go to college, not just tally when you need a loan around the big life events such as buying a house, because the appeal of the start-up of services in widely people consistently, other non-bank He said that it seemed to be different from the financial services company.

"Tally, the customer is, to bear the charges or fees for managing a plurality of credit cards, to solve the first problem you do not know the payment to," Flynn told. "They are a lot of people you can apply it is an elegant solution. "

Brown has said the tally, however, have benefited from the success of the alternative lending start-up "before.

Edyn in order to put the home garden on autopilot, debut a smart water valve

User automatically gardens and can be used to irrigate lawns water valve is connected to the Internet: Auckland, Edyn this week based in California, new, began sales of smart gardening equipment.

Edyn water valve, in order to adjust the moisture level in the soil, together with the local weather forecast system, uses the company's Edyn Garden sensor, the data from the soil sensor. If the user wants, they can adjust their own irrigation system using the Edyn smartphone app.

Sold for $ 69, weighs 8 oz less than Edyn water valve, and adapted to the Wi-Fi support and the standard garden hose at the solar-powered. Edyn system, a hose connected to the kitchen sink, if necessary, was designed to be small enough for use in the garden of the window box.

Recently, CEO and founder of Jason Arumburu of Edyn new water valve is in San Francisco, Farmscape maintained by urban agriculture STEM Kitchen & Garden, in how it works showed a TechCrunch.

Edyn previously Fenox venture capital, idea light bulb Ventures, Morning Group, indicator venture, received seed funding from Y Combinator, was the startup battlefield of finalists.

Rachio Inc., Koubachi AG, other hardware manufacturers, such as the parrot of iConservo Inc. and drone high-tech companies, offers a competitive product. But Edyn has gained traction in the market, which was crowded for horticulture technology.

The company's products are sold in stores of Home Depot, the company plans to add immediately the retailer of new bricks and mortar, Arumburu says.

Houzz will win "the best app" in the inaugural Google Play Development Award

Interior design and decoration resources Houzz is, this evening, the developer conference, according to Google, which announced the results of the first Google Play Award at the Google I / O, is this year's overall best Android apps. In previous years, but the company had rounded up a large number of applications for the "best of" list, the new Google, instead of playing the award, in accordance with Apple's model to select the winners in the whole of the various categories you.

Apple is in conjunction with a similar selection, mobile phone, and select the best apps for the tablet, anywhere "most innovative look," Google has taken a slightly different path. This is a 5 in 10 categories select a candidate, it did not distinguish between those that have been built for the tablet and mobile phone.

Google is also, as well, take full advantage of the Google Play game services of the best developers group that was taking advantage of "Google's service," plus Google's new design language, the best to implement the material design an app that reflects the person who gave me the job was finger name.

In addition, "outstanding start-up" and "rather than the early adopters only the" most innovative "app, but - and Google, but you limit yourself to one category only focused on technological innovation, a number I did not chose Kano angle. Movement, probably not all of the best and most creative new applications, designed to inform that it is exclusive to iOS, or has been started on the first of iOS.

The company, since a was the change from Google I / O, also the previous year, were live streaming the evening ceremony.

In the stage, the company, online store and heard the story of the evolution of Google Play has now pointed out that it has reached the user more than a billion people every day. App is obviously a huge draw for this shop - Earlier this week, Google will app, it said the installation from Google Play has reached $ 6.5 billion last year.

Award-winning app, chosen by Google of a panel of experts, such as the quality and innovation of the application, has been evaluated in a number of factors. App is to be thought of either of whether to start the major update during the last 12 months, needed to have had, and.

Houzz is defeated Buzz feed news, Colorfy, the TuneIn radio and Yummly, it has won the "best app" title.

On the other hand, hugely popular crash Royale Alphabear, the king of the collision, MARVEL Future Fight, and topping the hero of the Star Wars galaxy, we walked to the "best game" crown.

From the startup of the world, smart airfare prediction engine Hopper was awarded the "Best outstanding start-up", the app Robin Hood of investment that focuses on the thousand years will take full advantage of the victory grab "material designed for. "

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Smart home technology, you need to work hard in order to create a smarter consumer

Participants of the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, faced a head spin amount of smart home devices this year. You will be able to communicate when the milk and the eggs are missing from the $ 5,000 refrigerator, your light from the mobile apps or TV screen, the lock and the ability to control the thermostat, all of these products and technologies very well displayed - consumers the smart home investment up to the point where some were left behind in order to calculate when the cost reduction, energy efficiency and convenience is translated into improved.

Really smart companies and entrepreneurs, but has built an impressive piece of smart-home puzzle, these works are, to date, have been still connected as has given a smarter consumer rights not.

Parks Associates Home energy management data released in March 2016, 70% of households with the smart energy device indicates report save money on energy consumption due to the decrease. However, research firm, 83 percent of US broadband households, so that they do not know the price you pay for electricity, based on the cost savings, we pointed out the problems of the vendor to sell the smart energy device.

To close the gap between the availability and adoption, all of the stakeholders of the smart home eco-system - device manufacturers, the technology providers, utilities, integrators, and interoperability standards bodies - practical data through, there is a need to expand the focus from the creation of the smart home to give force to the smarter consumer. This can be achieved by several methods.

The need for the Internet of the approach of the things the center

IoT-centric approach of the street that consumers evidence are building their own smart home device at a time, is very important. In 2015 Forrester study, approximately 13 percent of consumers over time, meaning that the consumer to control the plurality of devices, it is necessary to understand how it is possible to work in conjunction with each other, that I found that the use of one or more of the smart home devices.
Is my home security system, will be able to control my lighting system? Is my smart thermostat will vice versa talk to my smart meter, and wonder? In many cases, they put the innovation on the priority of the product with a practically - - These are the smart home vendors is not a question that has been forced to respond to the early adopters, mainstream consumers thermostat, light, lock, and there is the answer to the request before investing hundreds of dollars in the security system appliance.

Smart Home product, the system, if the standard is not able to speak to each other, and the benefits of sufficient incremental to, but you have a nice-to-consumer is left with, to overcome the consumer not need-to-, confusion techniques that can provide, rather than some cost savings, and maximize the problem of savings and address cost.

More products to come to market, approach the center of the IoT will become more important: In a recent Parks Associates white paper, 40% of US broadband households to purchase the smart home devices in the next 12 months indicates that you are planning to add the interchangeability of its IoT is important in order to promote the future adoption of the consumer of smart home solutions.

Promising efforts, in order to IT devices and sensors to improve the interchangeability to simplify how they interact with one another, for example, to align the various wireless standards, such as Beige and Z-wave It is in progress. Consumer in real time, based on the shared devices and sensor data, valuable, by obtaining practical information, more that industry is more likely the, to spur this is connected some, more -device adoption of the mass market from competing you can migrate from standard early adapter to require their own products and significant integration work at the center approach of the IoT.

Data must be extended beyond the smart home

We, phrase, we used the "smart home" quite of this article, the bottom line is that there is a large difference between the connected home technology and smart home technology - it is the data: you can create a smart consumer a practical data.

Market has been encouraged or to see movement from the device and service only a handful a link smart home "island" in the individual easily it is not necessary to be integrated with each other smart home products.

Amazon Echo is an example of a start-up device with minimal expectations, up to the Philips Hue lights from Okeechobee and Emerson connected thermostat, the inside and outside of the smart home devices and services of house voice - consumption in order to activate increasingly high evaluation has received the bulbs to smart Home platform Samsung Smart Things in order to enable the person, to extend the IoT outside of the smart home integration with services such as such Uber and Domino's Pizza .