We’re less than a month and a half away from Google IO, arguably one of the most exciting tech events of the year, especially considering the rise of Android and other great products Google has in the pipeline including Chrome OS and Google TV. But taking a look at the 2011 Google IO sessions I’m a little disappointed.
There are 52 sessions listed. Android has 18 sessions. Chrome has 8 sessions. And that’s being generous by filtering using Android and Chrome tracks; if you look at session titles, Android is named in 15 titles while Chrome is named in only 2. Meanwhile, Google TV gets the complete shaft: it doesn’t have it’s own “track” and is only mentioned in 1 session title.
Here are the session names for your browsing pleasure:
- Fireside Chat with the Android
- Honeycomb Highlights
- Designing and Implementing Android UIs for Phones and Tablets
- Android Development Tools
- Android Market for Developers
- How to NFC
- Current Issues in Android Game Development
- Taking Android to Work
- Android Protips: Advanced Topics for Expert Android App Developers
- Android + App Engine: A Developer’s Dream Combination
- Building Android Apps for Google TV
- Leveraging Android Accessibility APIs to Create an Accessible Experience
- Evading Pirates and Stopping Vampires using licesnse Verification Library, In-App Billing, and App Engine
- Optimizing Android Apps with Google Analytics
- HTML5 versus Android: Apps or Web for Mobile Development?
- Best Practices for Accessing Google APIs on Android
- Memory management for Android Apps
- Large-scale Data Analysis Using the App Engine Pipeline API
- Storing your Data on Google’s Cloud
- HTML5 & What’s Next
- Chrome Web Store Lessons Learned
- HTML5 Showcase for Web Developers: The Wow and the How
- Mobile Web Development: From Zero to Hero
- Beyond Javascript: Programming the Web with Native Client
- WebGL Techniques and Performance
- YouTube’s iframe Player: The Future of Embedding
- Using ARIA to create accessible interactive web apps
- Google Checkout: A Foundation For Payments
- Chrome Dev Tools Reloaded
- Bring the Cloud to Your IDE with Google Plugin for Eclipse 2.3
- Fireside Chat with GWT and Cloud Tooling team
- High-performance GWT: best practices for writing smaller, faster apps
- Highly Productive GWT: Rapid Development with App Enginge, Objectify, Request Factory, and gwt-platform
- Javascript Programming in the Large with Closure Tools
- Kick-ass Game Programming with Google Web Toolkit
- Super Browser 2 Turbo HD Remix: Introduction to HTML5 Game
- Build Aggressively Compatible Android Games
- Building Game Development Tools with App Engine
- Managing and Visualizing Your Geospatial Data with Fusion Tables
- Location Based App development using Google APIs
- Map your Business, Inside and Out
- GIS with Google Earth and Google Maps
- Designing Maps Applications for Usability on Mobile and Desktop
- High Performance KML for Maps and Earth
- Secrets and surprises of the Google Geo APIs
- Launch and Grow Your Business App on the Google Apps Marketplace
- Storing Everything in the Cloud with Google Docs APIs
- Identity and Data Access: OpenID and OAuth2
- How to Get Your Startup Idea Funded by Venture Capitalists
- Turn Space On Your App Into Cash In Your POcket
- Building Custom Client Libraries for Google APIs
- Google One Pass: A simple, flexible, Web API for paywalls
We’ve got to give Google TV some flack because afterall, it’s built upon Android and Chrome in the first place. But Chrome, with an improving browser and complete Operating System with brand new hardware soon launching for the first time, I thought more than 2 sessions would be dedicated to Chrome in one way or another.
