Google's biggest conference of the year is next week - here all the new products and announcements we're expecting

Android superfans and early adopters have had access to the Android Q beta for some time, so we'd expect announcements for the upcoming big Android update to include details of existing initiatives, like improving privacy settings and transparency in Android and Android apps.

We'll also likely hear other things that Google wants to highlight about Android Q, like streamlining and improvements.

If it's going to mention Android Q, it's reasonable to expect some kind of mention about foldable smartphones.

Google worked with Samsung to make a version of the current Android Pie OS that supports the Galaxy Fold's foldable design, and foldable support is coming natively to Android Q.

One of Google's biggest announcement of 2019 so far is Stadia, the company's game streaming service that's currently under development. There are still many lingering questions regarding Stadia, and Google I/O is a perfect opportunity to tell us more.

At last year's I/O conference the star of the show was Duplex, a conversational AI assistant that sounded just like a human and was able to call a restaurant and book a reservation.

It was truly incredible, even if Google has not yet delivered such a futuristic experience in the version of Duplex that's currently available.

But given that artificial intelligence is one of Google's primary areas of focus, expect Google to showcase lots of new, eye-popping demos that show the technology's potential.