Information about Android is being relegated to a aspect present at Google’s annual developer convention, Google I/O, subsequent month. On Monday, the corporate introduced it might share details about the most recent updates coming to the Android ecosystem at an upcoming digital occasion known as “The Android Present: I/O Version,” airing on Might 13.
The choice to maneuver the Android portion of Google I/O to its personal separate occasion forward of the beginning of I/O suggests this 12 months’s developer convention may very well be much more AI-heavy than common. AI information and updates have been already taking on an more and more longer portion of the Google I/O shopper and developer keynote addresses.
Google, nonetheless, is framing this shift in a different way.
As an alternative, the corporate says there have been “so many new issues to share” about Android that it selected to create a particular occasion — an I/O version of its Android Show video podcast — as one other technique to share the most recent information and adjustments. It additionally notes that Android will proceed to have a presence at I/O in keynotes and technical periods for builders.
Nonetheless, shifting a bulk of the Android information to a digital present forward of the principle occasion is a notable programming change for the developer convention. Whether or not that’s as a result of there’s “an excessive amount of information” or as a result of Google determined Android’s information didn’t require as excessive a billing as in earlier years stays to be seen.