Google I/O

Google I/O (simply I/O) is an annual developer conference held by Google in San Francisco, California. I/O showcases technical in-depth sessions focused on building web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open sources such as Android, Chrome and Chrome OS, APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.
I/O was inaugurated in 2008, and is organized by the executive team. "I/O" stands for input/output, as well as the slogan "Innovation in the Open".^[2] The event's format is similar to Google Developer Day.

Sundar Pichai at Google I/O 2015

Conferences

I/O
Year	Date	Location	Announcements	Hardware	Information
2008	May 28–29	Moscone Center	Android App Engine Bionic Maps API OpenSocial Web Toolkit	None	Speakers were: Marissa Mayer David Glazer Alex Martelli Steve Souders Dion Almaer Mark Lucovsky Guido van Rossum Jeff Dean Chris DiBona Josh Bloch Raffaello D'Andrea Geoff Stearns [3]
2009	May 27–28		AJAX APIs Android App Engine Chrome OpenSocial Wave Web Toolkit	HTC Magic	Speakers were: Aaron Boodman Adam Feldman Adam Schuck Alex Moffat Alon Levi Andrew Bowers Andrew Hatton Anil Sabharwal Arne Roonman-Kurrik Ben Collins-Sussman Jacob Lee Jeff Fisher Jeff Ragusa Jeff Sharkey Jeffrey Sambells Jerome Mouton Jesse Kocher [4]
2010	May 19–20		APIs Android App Engine Chrome Enterprise Geo OpenSocial Social Web TV Wave	HTC Evo 4G Motorola Droid Nexus One	Speakers were: Aaron Koblin Adam Graff Adam Nash Adam Powell Adam Schuck Alan Green Albert Cheng Albert Wenger Alex Russell Alfred Fuller Amit Agarwal Amit Kulkarni Amit Manjhi Amit Weinstein Andres Sandholm Angus Logan Arne Roonmann-Kurrik Bart Locanthi Ben Appleton Ben Chang Ben Collins-Sussman [5]
2011	May 10–11		Android Google Play Music Google Play Movies Honeycomb (3.1) Ice Cream Sandwich Chrome and Chrome OS Chromebooks from Acer and Samsung Angry Birds for Chrome In-app purchases for Chrome Web Store	Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Series 5 Chromebook Verizon MiFi	The afterparty hosted Jane's Addiction. [6][7][8][9]
2012	June 27–29		Android 3D imagery for Earth 400 million users announcement Analytics Google Now Jelly Bean In-app purchases for Wallet Project Butter Chrome 310 million users announcement Chrome for Android is stable iOS app Compute Engine Docs Offline editing Drive App for iOS SDK (v.2) Glass Gmail 425 million users announcement Google+ Hangouts app and metrics Platform for Mobile with SDKs and APIs Maps Offline for Android Enhanced maps in API Transit data in API Nexus 7 Q YouTube Updated 720p HD API Heat maps and symbols in API Updated Android app	Galaxy Nexus Nexus 7 Nexus Q Chromebox	Extended the I/O conference from the usual two-day schedule to three days. There was no keynote on the final day. The afterparty hosted Paul Oakenfold and Train. [10][11][12]
2013	May 15–17		Android 900 million users announcement Updated Search Studio App Engine PHP support Google+ Redesign with photo and sharing emphasis Hangouts Updated IM platform Maps Redesign on web and Android Play Games Music All Access Play for Education Samsung Galaxy S4 to be sold Updated Google Play Services TV Update to Jelly Bean	Chromebook Pixel	The amount of time for all the $900 (or $300 for school students and faculty) tickets to sell out was 49 minutes, even when registrants had both Google+ and Wallet accounts by requirement. There were a fleet of remote-controlled blimpsstreaming a bird's-eye view of I/O. The afterparty hosted Billy Idol. [13][11][14]
2014	June 25–26		Android Auto Lollipop Material Design One Slides TV Wear Chromebook Improvements Google Fit Gmail API	LG G Watch Samsung Gear Live Moto 360 Google Cardboard	The Moto 360 was made available to attendees by shipping it afterwards.[15]
2015	May 28–29		Android Marshmallow Pay Wear Chrome Custom tabs Gmail Inbox availability for everyone Maps Offline mode Nanodegree Now Reduction in voice error Context improvements Photos Play "About" tabs for developer pages A/B listings Store listing experiments "Family Star" badge Project Brillo Project Weave	Nexus 9 Improved Google Cardboard	Marshmallow includes new feature such as: App permission controls Native fingerprint recognition. "Deep sleep", a mode which puts the device to sleep for power saving. USB Type-C support Deep-linking app support, which leads verified app URLs to the app in the Play store. Android Wear adds: "Always on" extension to apps Wrist gestures Nanodegree is an Android course on Udacity Project Brillo is a new operating system for the Android-based Internet of things. Project Weave is a common language for IoT devices to communicate [16][17]
2016	May 17–19	Shoreline Amphitheatre	Allo Android Daydream Instant Apps Nougat Wear 2.0 Assistant Duo Firebase Home Play integration with Chrome OS	None	Sundar Pichai moved Google I/O to Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA for the first time. Attendees were given sunglasses and sunscreen due to the amphitheater's outside conditions, however many attendees were sunburned so the talks were relatively short.[18] Android Instant Apps is a code path that downloads a part of an app instead of accessing a web app, which allows links to load apps on-demand without installation. This was shown with the B&H app.[19] Android support for VR was shown with Daydream.[20] Firebase, a mobile application platform, now adds storage, reporting and analytics.[21] [22][23] The inaugural Google Play Awards were presented to the year's best apps and games in ten categories.[24]
2017	May 17–19		Android O Project Treble Google.ai	Google Home	Google I/O was held at the Shoreline Amphitheatre for the second time.[25] Project Treble is an Android O feature that modularizes the OS so carriers can update their smartphones easier. Google Assistant will be available on iOS devices.[26] A new Standalone (in-built) virtual reality system to be made by the HTC Vive team and also by Lenovo.[27]