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Google maps and YouTube to work offline
Google maps and YouTube to work offline. At Google’s I/O developer conference held last week, Google introduced a series of light apps for people using low bandwidth connections in developing countries, to be rolled out later this year.
At Google’s I/O developer conference held last week, Google introduced a series of light apps for people using low bandwidth connections in developing countries, to be rolled out later this year. Along with this, Google Maps and YouTube will work offline on Android phones.
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In Google Maps, users will be able to view features like the destination address, phone number, opening hours, reviews, turn by turn directions along with voice directions (for saved routes) offline. YouTube will also receive similar offline support through an archiving tool. The feature will let users save a video for offline viewing for up to 48 hours.
Websites on Chrome will get a ‘Network Quality Estimator’ (NQE), which will analyse the user’s network connection in order to optimise search results and subsequent landing web pages to load faster, giving higher priority to text and information over data-intensive images.
The NQE will, in effect, change the rendering of web pages on a slow connection in order to make the web pages usable and fast. In the same conference, the search giant unveiled an open platform API called Android Pay to enable its users to make payments from credit cards within the Android app.
