Google is improving a lot for developer's favour by adding lots of
flavour in android.
Three new location based
API's-
Fused Location provider- Fused
Location provider basically combines all phone sensors that can detect location
and in turn greatly reduces battery consumption when an app such as maps
requires specific location.So it combines data from a device cellular radio,gps
and wifi to provide more uniform location features in app.
Geofenching- It allows to set
up geographical area and then it trigger events when user enter or leave it. It
has been there in ios 5.1,now google also going to provide api.
Activity Recognition-It can
figure out, whether you are currently travelling on foot, car or bicycle.
Google's Barra also announced
that company is launching Google play game services offering many features IOS
users have in Game center along with additional features such as ablility to
play corss platform between Android Devices and Web-based games.
