Google I/O 2022 will happen between May 11–12, the corporate has introduced. Similar to final yr, this yr’s Google I/O can be free to entry just about for everybody. The occasion will, nonetheless, be livestreamed from Google’s Shoreline Amphitheatre — the common venue for the I/O convention — and could have a “limited live audience” that would embody Google’s staff and a few companions. Google additionally continued the custom of releasing an “SVD” puzzle earlier than revealing the dates for its developer-centric annual convention.

CEO Sundar Pichai announced the dates of Google I/O 2022 via a tweet posted on Thursday. The convention can be livestreamed and can be free to entry for everybody attending just about.

According to an FAQ web page available on the Google I/O website, registrations for the convention will start later this month.

In an announcement shared with The Verge, Google spokesperson Alex Garcia-Kummert stated that this yr’s occasion can be broadcast in entrance of a restricted reside viewers. Google clarified to Axios’ Ina Fried that the restricted viewers will primarily embody Google staff and a few companions.

This means that for the remainder of the attendees, this yr’s Google I/O would stay a web based occasion.

In 2020, Google fully cancelled its I/O convention as a result of COVID-19 emergence. It, although, performed the occasion as an online-only convention final yr.

Google I/O has been standard amongst builders constructing cell and Web apps ever since its begin again in 2008. However, for most of the people, the convention has gained important recognition in the previous couple of years attributable to numerous consumer-focused bulletins, together with the discharge of latest Android options.

Last yr, Google unveiled Android 12 with Material You design. It additionally introduced a partnership with Samsung for creating the brand new Wear OS replace.

Google is more likely to showcase Android 13 at its this yr’s I/O convention and will give particulars across the rumoured developments of foldable telephones and the Pixel Watch. We are additionally more likely to see the Pixel 6a as Google’s new inexpensive Android cellphone.

Ahead of unveiling the dates for Google I/O 2022, Google released the SVD puzzle on Wednesday the place it requested fanatics to untangle a given string with some references.

The puzzle comprises overlapping shapes and a sound toy that can be utilized to resolve the riddle and know the dates as a enjoyable train.