My main thought from this is Google are damned if they do, damned if they don't. Either they do nothing exciting and we complain about that, but if they did too much we'd complain about them stepping on the toes of everyone in the ecosystem. As it stands it looks a lot like they're licking too many cookies, but underdelivering, and being damned on both fronts, but getting the benefit of neither. Go back to last year's I/O, and Android Studio still isn't really the main IDE for Android yet, and the much lauded Maps has gone off a cliff.
Let's face it, the only impressive tech stuff here today was the cloud debugging. Everything else was fluff. Frankly Amazon put on far more dangerous looking displays of technology prowess these days.
And we still can't mention China. Disappointing, but somewhat inevitable.
I've already got a form of cloud debugging on Azure. I'm honestly surprised all cloud services don't offer it.
I was happy with the auto integration, but didn't really think it was tremendously new. The new design stuff raised more questions than answers for me.
I'll second your point on Android Studio. I was really hoping to see it was getting some serious attention this I/O (but I'm not watching everything live so maybe there is something I haven't seen yet)
As someone who literally started developing for Android about 3 weeks ago, I also share this sentiment. Android Studio (and a pet plugin project a couple old coworkers are working on that makes Maven look downright dumb) and Gradle have been a godsend in getting me up to speed in Android development. I tried Eclipse once in the past to port an old app and absolutely hated everything about it - which I naively ascribed towards the entire Android dev ecosystem as well back then.
I'm hoping for some more stable AS releases and a plan for a 1.0.0 soon.
Let's face it, the only impressive tech stuff here today was the cloud debugging. Everything else was fluff. Frankly Amazon put on far more dangerous looking displays of technology prowess these days.
And we still can't mention China. Disappointing, but somewhat inevitable.