Google introduces Android new technologies ... - Techworld

Google unveiled a solution that can significantly increase the performance of web-based Android mobile devices. They are both brand new technologies, as well as those that the company already uses in its Chrome operating system.

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Google has developed a new method of compressing files containing images and video content. And so mobile browser Chrome will work efficiently, inter alia, by solving WebP, open-source compression files containing images. The company reports that the files compressed with WebP technology is about 30% faster than JPEG files.

WebP support are other options for handling graphics (such as a lossy image compression, lossless image compression, transparency, color profiles, and animated images) , which means that the technology can replace GIF. The solution also supports metadata containing photographs, supported by other graphic formats.

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Mobile Chrome browser also supports VP9 – a new method for compressing video files, especially useful in the case of transmission of such files over slower connections. Google ensures that the technology can deliver video images that are better quality than those supported by the currently used H.264 compression format. According to Google, the technology VP9 can transmit images in only 50% of the bandwidth that is needed H.264 technology to accomplish the same task. YouTube has announced that this year the site will support this technology.

Google is implementing a solution that enables users of mobile Android devices will be able to quickly browse the store on the Internet. This will be possible thanks to a special proxy servers (data compression proxy) hosted by the company. They reduce the need for web application throughput by up to 50%.

Google will soon introduce a new Android application developers a solution that allows them to build their own HTML tags. Company advertising technology as “ first tool to use native web components .” With it, developers can more easily build dedicated applications for devices based on different platforms, nesting in their memories of certain parts of JavaScript, CSS and HTML. The idea is that a developer can create your own tag and insert it into the management software such as phone and then use it again on your tablet or other mobile device.