If you’ve played Castle Crashers, you know it’s got a fantastic soundtrack (whoever did their sound engineering deserves a raise!) Well, I spent some time converting all the files to mp3 and adding metadata so I wanted to share my work with you so you can enjoy the awesome music. https://www.mediafire.com/?xbkftble4d4urro [image: CasltleCrashers.png]

I’m kind of surprised that this is the thread that mostly flew under the radar. Android TV actually caught me a bit off guard and I was pleasantly surprised with what it is. First, the UI actually seems really well done. Being google and knowing context helps make the home screen work really well. Granted that I don’t use Google Play Movies, I’m not sure how much use I’d make of the content suggestions (or how accurate they would even be), but maybe it’d give me some inspiration to look up those titles on Netflix :P The second thing that I really liked about this was that google search is first class. Open menu -> “ok google” -> get whatever info you wanted. I could see myself using this all the time for when I think I recognize an actor from a different movie. Or even to get world cup group stats right on my TV! Third is casting. I like the idea of a chromecast, but I don’t know if I’d go out of my way to get one. If it’s part of my TV, though, I’d use that. One thing I didn’t mention in the original post is that Android TV does not need and Android phone. In the keynote, he controlled it with that beautiful red nexus 5 (:heart_eyes:), but he did mention that it needs “just a dpad and voice input”. I’d expect the TVs to come with these simple remotes. Definitely going to be considering one of these next time I’m looking for a TV (which probably won’t be for a few years)

I guess when you lift it up to your face, it ups the brightness, so maybe? LG said you can get up to 36 hours idle out of the gwatch. That’s 36 hours with the screen always on (probably at 30-40% brightness)

It’s like cars that support onstar or services like that. The car has to have support for it, but I don’t expect having support to be a luxury service. The reason to do this over mounting your phone is that the UI is designed for the car. Things that you actually use in the car are up front. Interaction is also intended to be hands free as much as you’re willing to use voice commands. I don’t really see this as a big selling point for the cars, but if the car I as buying had it, I’d be happy with it.

#Cardboard Probably the weirdest part of I/O was the first gift to attendees. As Pichai was finishing up and announcing the gifts, he started out really vaguely with: “You’re all going to get a Cardboard, let us know what you think” [image: Cardboard.png] Turns out, this is actually pretty cool. The cardboard unfolds with a pair of lenses to form a head set like thing. Place your android phone in the holding portion and you’ve got a REALLY cheap VR headset. Google has demos for it as well as a VR toolkit so developers can make their own VR apps. If you didn’t attend I/O and still want to try out Cardboard, there are instructions on how to build your own. You need to buy some lenses (which run on amazon for about $18) to get the focal distance right, but otherwise all you need are some hosehold items! Check it out! [image: CardboardHeadset.png] home

In the keynote I think it kept going. That might change by the time of release.

@Scuzz I think it’ll be a base for both oems and developers to branch from. Much like holo was.

Google I/O launched this morning with a really exciting Keynote. Among a few other things, Google announced a new design paradigm, the L version of android, 3 new niche android experiences, and a few small updates to current google products. The message of I/O 2014 was dominantly unification beyond phones. Google is pushing for consistent UI, contextual awareness, and voice/gesture controls across every aspect of technology in your life. As you’ll see, each of the new products google is rolling out has a familiar design while still adapting to specific devices and use-case. Google’s ecosystem is rapidly expanding, and, unlike Microsoft, they seem to be doing it correctly. This thread is mostly to coordinate by providing a table of contents and anything else that applies to all of my I/O threads. See each of the topics below for more info! Material Android L Android Wear Android Auto Android TV Misc Updates Cardboard

I managed to slip BitBangers into the NodeBB post over at Hacker News yesterday. This was mainly to show them that there was other themes and layouts available. Most of the comments in the thread seemed to be about the layout of their home page. We got a nice traffic spike from it too :D [image: PQAR4TJ.png] We didn’t suffer a DDoS like some of the websites do when posted on HN or Reddit but it was nice to get some hits. Lets hope some of the visitors pop back and register.

Castle Crashers The Swapper P.S. for those of you who missed the shoutbox convo, Castle Crashers will likely be a BB game night title.

Alright, first lets find a day everyone is free, timezones, etc. So either message me or leave a reply. Also, something like this we should do every other week, that way it doesn’t become too much of a priority.

Nice man. I’m currently playing through The Witcher 2. Dont get disheartened by the first game, it can get quite tedious at times.

Greetings and welcome. My family has an Xbone back home, I might get one at some point, but it’ll be a few months in the future if I do.

I think I may have sold it to my mate for like £200 ahah

Update for y’all clowns: [image: PhGrYPg.png]

Really liking the sidebar.

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@Scuzz Let’s do it, boys.

For anyone who’s interested, here’s a talk from Mozilla on rust: https://air.mozilla.org/guaranteeing-memory-safety-in-rust/ It’s a good introduction to the ideas behind what rust does and why it does them.

I’ve just had an awesome idea which will probably never work but it would be pretty amazing if you could Steam Stream to a Chromecast.