Google Developers Blog: April 2014

The hunt for Google I/O 2014 registration easter eggs

Monday, April 28, 2014

By Mónica Bagagem, Google Developer Marketing team

Google Developers home: the starting point for a diverse set of Google APIs from Cloud, to Games, to Google Wallet. This comprehensive site includes blogs, API documentation, developer tools, and information about Google developer programs, groups, training, and open-source projects.

Android and Google Developers YouTube Channels: central resource for developers around the world, of all experience levels, interested in learning more about the Google Developer ecosystem. It includes tutorial videos, high level overviews, and the latest news.

Udacity videos: Google Developers has teamed up with Udacity to provide accessible, engaging, and highly effective online education, including cutting-edge classes about Mobile Web Development and HTML5 Game Development.

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google.com/ioMónica Bagagem is part of the Developer Marketing team, working on Google I/O and supporting Designer related efforts. She is a world traveler and a brunch lover.*Posted by Louis Gray, Googler

Save more now with Calendar API!

Thursday, April 24, 2014

By Lucia Fedorova, Google Calendar API Team

Incremental synchronization using sync tokens. Incremental synchronization allows you to retrieve only resources that have been modified since the last time you synchronized and thus avoid retrieving all the resources in the collection all the time. At the beginning of the synchronization process, you retrieve all the resources you are interested in and store a sync token. On follow up requests, you can use the sync token to restrict the results to only the resources that have changed since the token was issued. This functionality is now available for all four main calendar collections. Learn more

Push notifications. Push is a great way to avoid repeated polling. Last year we announced support for push notifications for event changes. Now we are extending push notifications to Calendar list, ACL and Settings collections. You start by subscribing to the collections you are interested in. The server will figure out when something you are interested in has changed and send you a notification. Learn more

Pagination. Pagination gives you control over the number of results that you will retrieve from the server so you can read through many results at your own pace. Events and Calendar lists have already supported pagination for a while; today we are bringing you pagination for ACL and Settings collections. Learn more

Later that day
Lucia Fedorova is a Tech Lead of the Google Calendar API team. The team focuses on providing a great experience to Google Calendar developers and enabling new and exciting integrations.Posted by Louis Gray, Googler

New Security Measures Will Affect Older (non-OAuth 2.0) Applications

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

By Antonio Fuentes, Google Identity TeamGoogle Sign-inOAuth 2.0 in Google APIsOAuth 2.0Antonio Fuentes is a Product Manager working on features to keep Google users safe. He has also worked on tools for third party developers looking to build on Google infrastructure.Posted by Louis Gray, Googler

DevArt - Winner Announced

Thursday, April 17, 2014

By Emma Turpin, DevArt Lead at Google Creative Lab and Paul Kinlan, Developer Advocatedreammetamorphosisplayful giant mapwoodafter inviting the developer community to express themselves creativelyDevArtBarbican's Digital Revolution exhibition

And the winner is …Cyril Diagne & Béatrice Lartiguevideoproject page on DevArt site

three of the world’s finest interactive artistswith tickets available online herePaul Kinlan is a Developer Advocate in the UK on the Chrome team specialising on mobile. He lives in Liverpool and loves trying to progress the city's tech community from places like DoES Liverpool hack-space.Posted by Louis Gray, Googler

A conversation about design

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

By Nadya Direkova, Staff Designer and Design Evangelist Search — The beauty of speed: Jon Wiley discusses the importance of designing for simplicity and speed. Maps - Putting the user front and center: Sian Townsend looks at the importance of understanding how a user approaches your product, while Jonah Jones talks about adapting the approach to make the map the user interface. Glass - Make it simple: Isabelle Olsson talks about the focus her team put into making Glass simple, and how this choice guided all the decisions they made. developer siteGoogle Moderator page to hear your questions for our designers and researchersNadya Direkova is a Staff Designer at Google [X]. She runs design sprints across Google allowing interdisciplinary teams to design with skill and speed. Posted by Louis Gray, Googler

Code School and the Google Maps SDK for iOS

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Cross-posted from the Geo Developers BlogBy Mike Jeffrey, Google Maps API TeamAre you an iOS developer interested in adding a map to your application? The instructional experts at Code School set out to create a course introducing the Google Maps SDK for iOS to developers like you — and they delivered!Exploring Google Maps for iOS is a free course covering everything from adding a simple map, to using geocoding and directions, to incorporating Street View in iOS. You'll end up with a working sample application and gain the knowledge you need to build your own amazing Google Maps-based apps. Learn from videos, sample code, and Xcode-based coding challenges.Check out the introduction video below, and then head over to Code School to get started with their interactive course!

You can also read our official developer documentation and reference docs at https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/ios/.Posted by Louis Gray, Googler

Design, Develop, and Distribute at I/O 2014

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

By Billy Rutledge, Director of Developer RelationsGoogle I/Oskydived onto the Moscone Centerdesign, develop and distributelink

More time to talk code, wireframes, and business plans with real humans: If you're coming in person, the schedule will give you more time to interact in the Sandbox, where partners will be on hand to demo apps built on the best of Google and open source, and where you can interact with Googlers 1:1 and in small groups. Come armed with your app and get ready for direct feedback on your app design, code, and distribution plan.

Go deeper with content: A streamlined session schedule will be published in May featuring talks that will inspire ideas for your next app, while giving you the tools to build it. We'll also be providing self-paced Code Labs that you can dive into while at I/O.

A taste of San Francisco, with After Hours: All work and no play makes for a dull conference! After Hours will showcase some of what our vibrant city has to offer, including craft brews in our beer garden, our city's illustrious food trucks, and local indie bands, so you can tear it up on the lawn (yes, that's right: outside this year!)

Billy Rutledge, Director of Developer RelationsPosted by Louis Gray, Googler

New user and sequence based segments in the Core Reporting API

Friday, April 11, 2014

By Nick Mihailovksi, Product Manager, Google Analytics API TeamCross-posted from the Google Analytics Blog Segmentation is one of the most powerful analysis techniques in Google Analytics. It's core to understanding your users, and allows you to make better marketing decisions. Using segmentation, you can uncover new insights such as:

How loyalty impacts content consumption

How search terms vary by region

How conversion rates differ across demographics

Last year, we announced a new version of segments that included a number of new features.
Today, we've added this powerful functionality to the Google Analytics Core Reporting API. Here's an overview of the new capabilities we added:
User Segmentation Previously, advanced segments were solely based on sessions. With the new functionality in the API, you can now define user-based segments to answer questions like "How many users had more than $1,000 in revenue across all transactions in the date range?"

Example: &segment=users::condition::ga:transactionRevenue>1000

Try it in the Query Explorer.

Sequence-based Segments Sequence-based segments provide an easy way to segment users based on a series of interactions. With the API, you can now define segments to answer questions like "How many users started at page 1, then later, in a different session, made a transaction?"

Example: segment=users::sequence::ga:pagePath==/shop/search;->>perHit::ga:transactionRevenue>10

Try it in the Query Explorer.

New Operators To simplify building segments, we added a bunch of new operators to simplify filtering on dimensions whose values are numbers, and limiting metric values within ranges. Additionally, we updated segment definitions in the Management API segments collection.
Partner Solutions Padicode, one of our Google Analytics Technology Partners, used the new sequence-based segments API feature in their funnel analysis product they call PadiTrack.
PadiTrack allows Google Analytics customers to create ad-hoc funnels to identify user flow bottlenecks. By fixing these bottlenecks, customers can improve performance, and increase overall conversion rate.
The tool is easy to use and allows customers to define an ad-hoc sequence of steps. The tool uses the Google Analytics API to report how many users completed, or abandoned, each step.

Funnel Analysis Report in PadiTrack

According to Claudiu Murariu, founder of Padicode, "For us, the new API has opened the gates for advanced reporting outside the Google Analytics interface. The ability to be able to do a quick query and find out how many people added a product to the shopping cart and at a later time purchased the products, allows managers, analysts and marketers to easily understand completion and abandonment rates. Now, analysis is about people and not abstract terms such as visits."
The PadiTrack conversion funnel analysis tool is free to use. Learn more about PadiTrack on their website.
Resources

Read the segmentation conceptual guide to learn how these new segments work.
Get started with the segments developer guide.
Understand the richness of the segments language in the reference guide.

We're looking forward to seeing what people build using this powerful new functionality.Nick is the Lead Product Manager for Core Google Analytics, including the Google Analytics APIs. Nick loves and eats data for lunch, and in his spare time he likes to travel around the world.Posted by Louis Gray, Googler

Build a map infographic with Google Maps & JavaScript

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Cross-posted from the Geo Developers BlogBy Mark McDonald, Google GeoDevelopers TeamWe recently announced the launch of the data layer in the Google Maps JavaScript API, including support for GeoJSON and declarative styling. Today we’d like to share a technical overview explaining how you can create great looking data visualizations using Google Maps. Here’s our end goal. Click through to interact with the live version.

Data provided by the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.

Dart improves async and server-side performance

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Cross-posted from the Chromium BlogBy Anders Johnsen, Google Chrome TeamDart SDK version 1.3measuredHello, File, and JSON

The data for the chart above was collected on a Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS machine with 8GB RAM and a Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU, running a single-isolate server on Dart VM version 1.1.3, 1.2.0 and 1.3.0-dev.7.5.
The source for the benchmarks is available.Write HTTP Clients and Serversprogrammer's guide to command-line apps with DartDartisans G+ communityAnders Johnsen is a software engineer on the Chrome team, working in the Aarhus, Denmark office. He helps Dart run in the cloud.
Posted by Louis Gray, Googler

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The hunt for Google I/O 2014 registration easter eggs

Save more now with Calendar API!

New Security Measures Will Affect Older (non-OAuth 2.0) Applications

DevArt - Winner Announced

A conversation about design

Code School and the Google Maps SDK for iOS

Design, Develop, and Distribute at I/O 2014

New user and sequence based segments in the Core Reporting API

Build a map infographic with Google Maps & JavaScript

Dart improves async and server-side performance

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