New App From Google : Interactive Events App

Okay, we always get a little excited when a new app from Google Inc. appears in the Play Store. Tonight, Google’s pushed an app called Interactive Events up, but we’re not quite sure what it’s for yet. According to Google:

The Google Interactive Events App provides agenda details and speaker bios for managed events.

But it’s not exactly clear to us what managed events the app is meant to handle. Interactive Events asks users to either type or scan an event code (the latter using an external barcode scanner app). Once that’s done, users presumably continue to the actual interface, which looks like an unfinished mashup of previous years’ Google I/O apps.

Oddly, when the app first launches users are greeted with Google’s “internal dogfood” dialog, advising against discussing the app with non-Googlers. So it’s possible that Interactive Events isn’t quite done yet. This would make sense given the numerous design quirks and holo-era elements present in the interface. Of course it’s also possible that the dialog was just left in the 1.0.0 release by mistake.

Whatever the case, you can check out the app for yourself through the link below, or grab the APK directly from APK Mirror.