Google Developers Blog: April 2017

Start planning your Google I/O 2017 schedule!

Friday, April 28, 2017

Posted by Christopher Katsaros, Product Marketing ManagerGoogle I/Obuilding apps for the Google AssistantZero to App with Firebasegoodies inside Android OOver 150 Technical Sessions, Livestreamed
Google KeynoteDeveloper Keynote google.com/ioI/O websiteJoining in person?
See you in 3 weeks!

Introducing the Google Assistant SDK

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Posted by Chris Ramsdale, Product ManagerGoogle Assistant SDKgRPCRaspberry PiwebsiteWayne Piekarski go hereread their documentation contact usg.co/assistantsdkdevstackoverflow tagmailing list

Using field masks with update requests to Google APIs

Thursday, April 20, 2017

G Suite Developers BlogPosted by Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, G SuiteWe recently demonstrated how to use field masks cellfields{ "repeatCell": { "range": { "endRowIndex": 1 }, "cell": { "userEnteredFormat": { "textFormat": { "bold": true } } }, "fields": "userEnteredFormat/textFormat/bold", } } userEnteredFormat/textFormat/bold "fields": "userEnteredFormat/textFormat(bold,italic)" italiccheck out this videotefrtpostsee the guide

Expand your color palette with new tools for Material Design

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Posted By: Rachel Been, Creative Lead, Material Design Material Design GuidelinesBeyond guidancetoday's updatecolor tool

Create color schemes

Create color schemes that include darker and lighter variations of your primary and secondary colors.












Test accessibility

Santa Tracker, open-sourced and delivered

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Posted by Sam Thorogood, Developer Programs Engineer

google/santa-tracker-webgoogle/santa-tracker-android On the WebCase Study on Google Developershead over to GitHub

Santa is a Progressive Web App, sporting a responsive design for mobile, desktop and tablet, supporting Add to Home Screen and offline.

Rather than saving the entire site offline (about 100mb, including resources needed for different browsers), Santa's Service Worker only saves the scenes you've visited at least once—icing over houses that aren't available offline.

Santa Tracker used Polymer 1.7+, packing code into reusable components. Every house in Santa's Village is a custom element, only loaded when needed, minimizing the startup cost of Santa Tracker.

The Web Share API allowed users on mobile to quickly and natively showcase their creativity—it's a modern API for interfacing with a platform's native share intent, replacing the sea of share buttons normally presented to users.

Santa sported a new and improved Chromecast experience that scaled well across all Cast devices—from the original Chromecast device through to the high-end Chromecast Ultra and supported TVs.

Users were delighted by showing some great video content from around Santa's Village, especially during Santa's long travel legs.

The Android client also used this Chromecast experience, so Android users joined the fun watching Santa deliver presents on the 24th on their big screen TVs.

Santa's elves have created some amazing new educational experiences built for 2017—including Code a Snowflake, written by the Google team behind Blockly.

On Androidthe in-depth analysis on Android Developershead over to GitHub

Present Quest, a new AR game where players are encouraged to explore their real-world environment to collect presents and level up!

Santa is smaller and faster than ever before. The download size is down 10mb from the previous release, despite including multiple new games, Santa works better on memory-constrained devices, and various sources of jank have been found and removed.

The app is built using split APKs - one per architecture (armv5, armv7, and x86), reducing download size. Each APK supports phones, tablets, Android TVs and provide custom watch faces on Android Wear.

Santa Tracker leverages Firebase features, including Remote Config, App Invites to invite your friends to play along, and Firebase Analytics to help our elves better understand users of the app.

Ho Ho Ho!

Using field masks with Google APIs for partial response

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Originally posted on the G Suite Developers Blog by Wesley Chun, Developer Advocate, G Suitefield masksGMAILaddresses = GMAIL.users().settings().sendAs().list( userId='me' ).execute().get('sendAs')Client Library{ "sendAs": [{ "sendAsEmail": string, "displayName": string, "replyToAddress": string, "signature": string, "isPrimary": boolean, "isDefault": boolean, "treatAsAlias": boolean, "smtpMsa": { "host": string, "port": integer, "username": string, "password": string, "securityMode": string }, "verificationStatus": string }, ...] }sendAschange a user’s email signature using the Gmail APIwithoutsendAsEmailisPrimarysendAsdoesn’taddresses = GMAIL.users().settings().sendAs().list( userId='me', fields='sendAs(sendAsEmail,isPrimary)' ).execute().get('sendAs')

Field masks filter our unnecessary data from Google API call responses.

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Noto Serif CJK is here!

Monday, April 3, 2017

Posted by Xiangye Xiao and Jungshik Shin, Internationalization Engineering teamNoto Sans CJK released in 2014

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Design of '永' ('eternity') in Noto Serif and Sans CJK. This ideograph is famous for having the most important elements of calligraphic strokes. It is often used to evaluate calligraphy or typeface design.

It has comprehensive character coverage for the four languages. This includes the full coverage of CJK Ideographs with variation support for four regions, Kangxi radicals, Japanese Kana, Korean Hangul and other CJK symbols and letters in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode. It also provides a limited coverage of CJK Ideographs in Plane 2 of Unicode, as necessary to support standards from China and Japan.

Simplified Chinese	Supports GB 18030 and China’s latest standard Table of General Chinese Characters (通用规范汉字表) published in 2013.
Traditional Chinese	Supports BIG5, and Traditional Chinese glyphs are compliant to glyph standard of Taiwan Ministry of Education (教育部國字標準字體).
Japanese	Supports all of the kanji in JIS X 0208, JIS X 0213, and JIS X 0212 to include all kanji in Adobe-Japan1-6.
Korean	The best font for typesetting classic Korean documents in Hangul and Hanja such as Humninjeongeum manuscript, a UNESCO World Heritage. Supports over 1.5 million archaic Hangul syllables and 11,172 modern syllables as well as all CJK ideographs in KS X 1001 and KS X 1002

Noto Serif CJK’s support of character and glyph set standards for the four languages

It respects diversity of regional writing conventions for the same character. The example below shows the four glyphs of '述' (describe) in four languages that have subtle differences.

From left to right are glyphs of '述' in S. Chinese, T. Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This character means "describe".

It is offered in seven weights: ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, and Black. Noto Serif CJK supports 43,027 encoded characters and includes 65,535 glyphs (the maximum number of glyphs that can be included in a single font). The seven weights, when put together, have almost a half-million glyphs. The weights are compatible with Google's Material Design standard fonts, Roboto, Noto Sans and Noto Serif (Latin-Greek-Cyrillic fonts in the Noto family).

Seven weights of Noto Serif CJK

It supports vertical text layout and is compliant with the Unicode vertical text layout standard. The shape, orientation, and position of particular characters (e.g., brackets and kana letters) are changed when the writing direction of the text is vertical.

Iwata Corporation Sandoll CommunicationsSIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 https://www.google.com/get/noto https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-cjkhttp://adobe.ly/SourceHanSerifhttps://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/tree/release/

Updates to end user consent for 3rd-party apps and Single Sign-on providers

Monday, April 3, 2017

Originally Posted on G Suite Developers BlogPosted by Rodrigo Paiva, Product Manager & Nicholas Watson, Software Engineer, Identity, and Wesley Chun, Developer Advocate, G Suiteaccess to user datachange their passwordsApril 5, 2017

Google and 3rd-party applications on iOS

Mobile browsers on iOS and Android

Web browsers (Chrome, Firefox and other modern browsers)

More visibility with new permission requests for your application

Only non-standard permissions will be presented in the secondary consent screen that the user must approve. andcheck out this developer guidehd and/or login_hint pOpenID Connect page

An application that uses the hd parameter to specify the domain name automatically

Changes coming for 3rd-party SSO redirection

The end user who has just signed in with one Google account should select that account as confirmation.hd

A user who is signed into several Google accounts will be required to choose the appropriate account.

See updates starting April 2017

April 5, 2017

Introducing the Mobile Sites certification, for web developers

Monday, April 3, 2017

Posted by Chris Hohorst, Head of Mobile Sites Transformation1

What the exam covers

To pass the exam, you'll need to show proficiency across mobile site design, mobile UX best practice, mobile site speed optimization, and advanced web technologies. We've put together a study guide that covers everything you'll need to know.

What are the benefits?

How to sign up

Check out our study guide to get started. Then, to take the exam, please click on the Mobile Sites certification link and log in to your Google Partners account. If you're not signed up yet, you can create a Partners user profile by registering here.

1 Google Analytics data, U.S., Q1 2016 from Find Out How You Stack Up to Industry Benchmarks for Mobile Page Speed

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Start planning your Google I/O 2017 schedule!

Introducing the Google Assistant SDK

Using field masks with update requests to Google APIs

Expand your color palette with new tools for Material Design

Santa Tracker, open-sourced and delivered

Using field masks with Google APIs for partial response

Noto Serif CJK is here!

Updates to end user consent for 3rd-party apps and Single Sign-on providers

Introducing the Mobile Sites certification, for web developers

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