ISSUE 50 • ANDROID ADVISOR 9GOOGLE I/O 2018asked questions and highlighted tweets from a variety
of sources. Google says Full Coverage is “by far the
most powerful feature of the app,” but there’s a lot
more that’s new. Read up on it all on page 43.
Google Lens
The entire point of Google Lens is to leverage
the company’s strengths in machine learning and
computer vision to provide you with more information
about the world, but it’s getting even more useful
soon. A new smart text selection tool lets you copy
and paste text captured with your camera. Even more
useful, selecting a text snippet brings up information
about the subject. “Say you’re at a restaurant and see
the name of a dish you don’t recognize – Lens will
show you a picture to give you a better idea,” Google
says. “This requires not just recognizing shapes of
letters, but also the meaning and context behind the
words.” A fresh style match feature, on the other hand,
can show you information about outfits or home
décor you like, as well as products with a similar style.
But perhaps most significantly, Lens is being freed
from the shackles of Photos and Assistant. Google’s
technology will now come baked directly into the
Pixel’s camera app, and cameras in (unspecified)
devices by LG, Motorola, Xiaomi, Sony Mobile,
HMD/Nokia, Transsion, TCL, OnePlus, BQ, and Asus.
For further details, go to page 38.
Linux on Chromebooks
It didn’t make the I/O main stage, but in a follow-
up post, Google revealed that Chromebooks are