google i/o summary at the google developer group meetup

1. google photo action : if you take a photo and it identifies the person, will ask you do you want to send the picture to that person
2. style photo : keep subject in color and background in black and white
3. took old black and white photo and made it color
4. TPU  3.0: tensor processing unit , liquid cooling
5. 6 new voices for google home  using wavenet 
6. assitant can make calls and book appointment
7. https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html
8. In Google's case, its actual mission statement is: "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful
9. continue conversation no need to repeat ok google everytime
10. smart displays : google home with screen : show the forecast, Android TV does it, but this is separate, show me bakeries nearby, simllar to alexa echo show
11. google sound bar  integrated with andoird TV and google assitant so you can control TV with voice : turn off the light, turn off the tv and play some music on pandora. 
12. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/10/17340224/google-gmail-how-to-use-smart-compose-io-2018
13. Dashboard, App timer, winddown
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia new google os
15. https://flutter.io/ 

    Build beautiful native apps in record time , language is dart

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Getting started with Kotlin

manning book Kotlin in action
https://try.kotlinlang.org/
https://kotlinlang.org/
https://try.kotlinlang.org/#/Examples/Hello,%20world!/Simplest%20version/Simplest%20version.kt
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/koans.html
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/idioms.html
https://kotlinlang.org/
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-examples
http://kotlinbyexample.org

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-workshop has slide deck presenstations

Presentations used for the workshop at KotlinConf:

1. Intro
2. Nullable Types
3. Object-Oriented Programming in Kotlin
4. Kotlin Types
5. Functional Programming in Kotlin
6. The Power of inline
7. Lambda With Receiver
8. Conventions
9. Intro to Coroutines

Starting with Gradle

Gradle tutorialscommand line interface common commands
Creating new gradle builds

Making a trivia game for android phone

Last thanksgiving, I attended  a Google developer conference and got really excited and tried my hand at making a trivia game for andoroid phones. The message was "Voice is the new Search" which meant in the past "Search" revolutionized the internet , similarly, now due to smartphones, everything is moving to voice applications and  developers should focus on developing "voice apps"

I used the tutuorial from

https://developers.google.com/actions/templates/trivia

and made this trivia game on the android phone about mahabharata, an epic story written 5000 years back in India, which 

• asks you a trivia question about the events from the epic in voice, 
• you give it a reply(in voice or text)  and then 
• it answers back(voice and text) whether the reply was correct or not, voices more information about the question and then moves on to the next question

the mahabharata trivia

This will probably work only for me because I have to logged in to the console,  So  this is a screenshot of how the interaction  will actually go

Link to listen to the interactive game audio TODO

Pros:

1. It took me less than 30 minutes to create the game and all it needs is a spreadsheet with 

• question
• answer
• hint
• followup
• spreadsheet for the game

1. There was no coding involved. and the possibilities are endless for creating fun educational games for all ages.

Cons:

1. The only piece I need to figure out is how to deploy the games and make then available to family, friends and the world at an affordable price.