please welcome Senior Vice President, Android, Chrome,

and Apps, Sundar Pichai.

SUNDAR PICHAI: Thank you everyone.

It's great to see all of you.

Welcome to Google I/O. Every year,

we look forward to this date.

We've been hard at work since last I/O evolving our platforms

so that developers like you can build amazing experiences.

So thank you for joining us in person.

I/O is a pretty global event.

We have viewing parties in over 597 locations

in 85 countries in six continents,

and there are over one million people

watching this on the live stream today.

Let's say hello to a few locations.

London.

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Hello, London.

Let's say hello to Brazil.

Everyone is talking about Brazil today.

If it weren't for I/O, I would be there for the World Cup.

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I'm tempted to shout, "Goal."

Finally, let's go to Nigeria.

We're thrilled to have an all-female developer group

in Nigeria, and--

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We're working hard to elevate women in computer science,

so look forward to seeing what they develop one day.

In fact, at I/O this year, we are very excited.

There is over 20% female participation,

which is up from 8% last year.

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And even more excited, we are joined

over 1,000 women in this room today, so thank you.

Of course, I/O is when we talk about our two large computing

platforms, open platforms, Android and Chrome, which

are built from the ground up for developers like you.

Today, we're going to give you an update

on the momentum we are seeing in mobile.

We are living in amazing times, so we

want to talk about the mobile momentum we see

and how we are evolving our platforms to support

that momentum.

And more importantly, we are beginning to think and evolve

our platforms beyond mobile.

You will hear about that from us today.

And finally, we want to talk to you

as developers as to how you can achieve success

on top of our platforms, including an update on Google

Cloud Platform and Google Play.

So let's get started.

If you look at global smartphone shipments,

the numbers are stunning.

The industry shipped over 300 million phones last quarter,

so they are on track to ship well

over a billion phones each year.

So how is Android doing in the face of this momentum?

In the past, we've talked about cumulative activations

of Android.

We're switching and focusing on 30-day active users,

users who are currently using their Android devices globally.

And you can see the number has been doubling every year.

We've gone from 220 million to over 530 million

as of last year's I/O. We are very excited.

As of this year's I/O, we are over one billion

30-day active users.

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The robot is pretty happy as well.

So let's internalize what one billion users actually mean.

Android users, on a given day, send

over 20 billion text messages each and every day.

More importantly, perhaps, they take around 93 million selfies

every day.

The team tells me about 31 million

of these are duck faces.

We estimate Android users take around

1.5 trillion steps per day, and they pull out their phones

and check it over 100 billion times each day.

Important use cases which we are working on addressing,

and you'll hear about it later today.

Developers are building profound experiences

on top of smartphones.

Stories we hear every day.

Few examples.

In Kenya, 40% of Kenya's GDP flows through M-Pesa,

giving unbanked people access to financial transactions

throughout the country.

Netra G. A company uses a smartphone and just

off the shelf accessories to measure your eye prescription,

and they are as accurate as $50,000 equipment

you find in optometrists' offices,

providing very, very affordable care too many people.

And finally, University of Michigan,

they are using for their patients,

they monitor subtle changes in voice quality

using their smartphone to detect early signs of bipolar

disorder.

So the kind of experiences we are

seeing on top of these phones are amazing.

So far, I've been talking about phones.

Let's shift to tablets.

We are seeing amazing growth in Android tablets as well.

There is tremendous adoption of these devices,

and if you look at how we are doing vis a vis the overall

market, Android tablets accounted

for 39% of all shipments two years ago.

That number increased to 46% as of last year's

I/O. As of this year's I/O, Android tablets

account for 62% of the overall market.

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We don't include other variants of Android like Kindle.

If you add that, it would go up a few percentage points.

These are shipment numbers.

Again, we care about usage, so we

view these as leading indicators of where usage would be.

If you take a look at tablet usage,

we're going to use YouTube as a proxy to understand usage.

A year ago, the total tablet viewership of YouTube, 28%

was from Android.

That number has gone up again to 42%.

So we are seeing usage track shipments,

and we are very excited people are

adopting these devices as well.

Another metric of engagement is app installs.

App installs just this year alone on tablet

is up by over 200%, so people are really

engaging with these devices.

So we are very excited we have a billion uses,

but we talked about this at last year's

I/O. Our goal is to reach the next five

billion people in the world.

If you look at a map of the world today, all the regions

in blue, emerging markets, the majority of users,

don't have a smartphone.

When I go back home to India and other countries like that--

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Thank you.

It is exciting to see the impact phones have on people's lives,

but it's disappointing that less than 10% of the population

have access to smartphones.

We want to change that.

So we've been working hard with our ecosystem

on a very important initiative which we call Android One.

So let me talk to you about Android One.

What we are doing for the first time,

if you look at all the OEMs in these countries, each of them

has to reinvent the wheel, and in a fast-paced mobile

industry, they have to build a new smartphone

within nine months.

So we want to pool resources and help everyone,

so we are working on a set of hardware reference platforms.

We identify the components which go into a next generation

smartphone.

These are high quality, affordable smartphones.

We qualify vendors so that we provide

a turnkey solution for OEMs to more easily build a smartphone.

In addition to hardware, we are working on software as well.

So the software on Android One is the same software

you see running on stock Android, Nexus

phones, and Google Play edition phones.

In addition, through Play, we allow OEMs and carriers

to add locally relevant applications

on the device which users have full control over.

And finally, we provide full automatic updates.

All the software in Android One comes from Google,

so we will keep them updated just like we

do with Nexus and Google Play edition phones.

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Let's take a look at one example device which we are working on.

So this is a device with Micro Max.

You can see there's a 4.5 inch screen.

It has features which matter to a country like India-- dual

SIM, removable SD cards, and FM radio.

I'm used to cutting edge phones, and I've

been using this phone for awhile, and it is really good,

and it costs less than $100.

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We are working with many partners.

We are going to be launching this around the world,

but we started this journey in India,

and we are launching this with three OEMs in India

in the fall of this year, Micro Max, Carbon, and Spice.

We are also working with carriers in these markets

to provide affordable connectivity packages

with these devices.

What we are excited is this is a leverage turnkey solution

so that at scale, we can bring high quality,

affordable smartphones so that we can get the next billion

people access to these devices, and we

can't wait to see the impact that it will have.

So we've talked about the momentum in mobile.

The next thing we want to talk to you

is about how we are evolving our platforms, Android and Chrome.

And today, for the first time since we

launched Android with the open SDK,

we're going to give you a preview of the upcoming L

release.

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You will be able to download this later on your development

devices.

We've been working very hard.

This is one of the most comprehensive releases

we have done.

It has over 5,000 new APIs, and we are thinking about L release

not just for mobile, but for form factors beyond mobile.

One of the things, as we thought about L,

we wanted to take a radical, new approach to design.

User experiences are evolving rapidly,

and we wanted to rethink the user design

experience in Android to have a fresh, bold, and new look.

To talk about the design for L, let me invite Matias Duarte.

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MATIAS DUARTE: Thank you, Sundar.

Design is essential in today's world.

It defines your experiences and your emotions.

So we challenged ourselves to create a design that was not

just for Android phones and tablets.

We worked together-- Android, Chrome, and across all

of Google-- to craft one consistent vision

for mobile, desktop, and beyond.

We wanted a design that was clear and simple,

and that people would intuitively understand.

So we imagined, what if pixels didn't just

have color, but also depth?

What if there was an intelligent material that

was as simple as paper but could transform and change

shape in response to touch?

And this led us to a way of thinking

that we call material design.

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We drew inspiration from paper and ink.

However, unlike real paper, our digital material

can expand, reform, and reshape intelligently.

The material has physical surfaces and edges

because the human mind is wired at its most primitive level

to instinctively understand objects

and their relationships.

Those scenes and shadows provide meaning

about what you can touch and how it will move.

In the real world, every small change in position and depth

creates subtle but important changes

in lighting and shadows.

So as part of the L preview, we'll now allow app developers

to specify an elevation value for any UI surface,

and the framework will render it in correct perspective

with virtual light sources and real time shadows.

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Material design is beautiful and bold

because clean, typographical layouts

are simple and easy to understand.