Google Sets July 24 Press Event With Android/Chrome Chief

Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome and Android (Image: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife)

Google has just sent out invitations to press for a breakfast event next week with Sundar Pichai, the senior VP who heads both Android and Chrome, the search giant's mobile and desktop operating software.

Google provided no details of what might be revealed at the July 24 event in San Francisco. But it's a decent bet that it could involve the next generation of Android software, code-named Key Lime Pie, which failed to make an expected appearance at Google's developer conference in May. Software developers are eagerly anticipating the new version.

Other bets for what might be revealed center on new hardware, such as new versions of Google's Nexus 7 tablets. Or perhaps a revamped Nexus Q media streaming device.

Perhaps we'll even get a sense for how the two operating systems, which seem to overlap more with each new version, will play together in the future. Depending on whom you talk to, one of them will get subsumed into the other, but Google has at least officially said they serve different purposes and will do so going forward.

Apple seems to make two operating systems work just fine, so there's no overt reason to combine them, but having two of them makes software development and distribution more complicated. And Pichai himself implied some kind of integration at the Google I/O conference by showing how a game created for the desktop could be easily translated to Android. Not least, a change in the situation seemed to be in the air when Pichai himself took on the Android stewardship in addition to heading Chrome after Android chief Andy Rubin left in March for another, unspecified job at Google.