Google Developers Blog: August 2014

The Web Search API is Retiring

Friday, August 29, 2014

Posted by Dan Ciruli, Product Manager

On November 1, 2010, we announced the deprecation of the Web Search API. As per our policy at the time, we supported the API for a three year period (and beyond), but as all things come to an end, so has its deprecation window.

We are now announcing the turndown of the Web Search API. You may wish to look at our Custom Search API (note: it has a free quota of 100 queries per day).The service will cease operations on September 29th, 2014.

How to move your files to Google Drive

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Posted by Chuck Coulson, Drive Technology Partnerships, GoogleGoogle Drive for Work is a new premium offering for businesses that includes unlimited storage, advanced audit reporting and new security controls and features, such as encryption at rest.If you're getting ready to move your company to Drive, one of the first things on your mind is how to migrate all your existing files with as little hassle as possible. It's easy to migrate your files by uploading them directly to Drive or using the Drive Sync client. But, what if you have files stored elsewhere that you want to consolidate? Or what if you want to migrate multiple users at once? Many independent software vendors (ISVs) have built solutions to help organizations migrate their files from different File Sync and Share (FSS) solutions, local hard drives and other data sources. Here are some of the options available for you to use:

Cloud Migrator, by Cloud Technology Solutions, migrates user accounts and files to Google Drive and other Google Apps services. (website, blogpost)

Cloudsfer, by Tzunami, transfers files from Box, Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive to Google Drive. (website)

Migrator for Google Apps, by Backupify, migrates and consolidates personal Google Drive or other Google Apps for Business accounts into a single domain. (website, blogpost)

Mover migrates data from 23 cloud services providers, web services, and databases into Google Drive. (website, blogpost)

Nava Certus, by LinkGard, provides a migration and synchronization solution for on-premise and cloud-based storage platforms, including Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3, as well as local file systems. (website,blogpost)

SkySync, by Portal Architects, integrates existing on-site storage systems as well as other cloud storage providers to Google Drive. (website, blogpost)

These are just a few companies that offer migration solutions. Please visit the Google Apps Marketplace for a complete listing of tools and offerings that add value to the Google Apps platform.

Office Hours for Google’s Udacity MOOCs

Monday, August 18, 2014

By Peter Lubbers, a Program Manager in charge of Google’s Scalable Developer Programs, which include MOOC developer training. Peter is the author of "Pro HTML5 Programming" (Apress) and, yes, his car's license plate is HTML5!
At Google I/O, we launched four new Udacity MOOCs, helping developers learn how to work with Android, Web, UX Design, and Cloud technology. We’re humbled that almost 100,000 students signed up for these new courses since then. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be hosting on-air office hours to help out students who are working through some of these classes. Ask your questions via the Moderator links below, and the Google Experts will answer them live. Please join us if you are taking the class, or just interested in the answers.
Class: Web Performance Optimization — Critical Rendering Path

Date: Wednesday August 20th, 9:00AM Pacific Time

Google Expert: Ilya Grigorik

Udacity course

G+ Event

Moderator (ask and vote for questions!)

Class: Android Fundamentals

Date: Tuesday, August 26, 9:00 AM Pacific Time

Google Experts: +Reto Meier and +Dan Galpin

Udacity course

G+ Event

Moderator (ask and vote for questions!)

Class: Building Scalable Apps with Google App Engine

Date: Thursday, August 28, 9:00 AM Pacific Time

Google Experts: +Magnus Hyttsten and +Jocelyn Becker

Udacity course

G+ Event and Moderator to be posted later (ask and vote for questions!)

You can find all of the Google Udacity MOOCs at www.udacity.com/google.
Posted by Mano Marks, Scalable Developer Advocacy Team

Google Fit Preview SDK now available

Thursday, August 7, 2014

By Angana Ghosh, Product Manager, Google Fit

preview SDK

Sensors API provides high-level access to sensors from the device and wearables—so with one API your app can talk to sensors, whether on an Android device or a wearable. So if you’re making a running app, you could register it to receive updates from a connected heart rate monitor every 5 seconds during a user’s run and give immediate feedback to the runner on the display.

Recording API allows apps to register for battery-efficient, cloud-synced background collection of fitness data. For example, a running app could ask to store user’s location so it can map the run later. Once it registers for these data types, collection is done by Fit in the background with no further work needed by the app.

History API allows operations on the data like read, insert and delete. When the exerciser finishes her run, the running app can query the History API for all locations during the run and show a map.

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Angana Ghosh is a product manager for the Google Fit team.
Posted by Louis Gray, Googler

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The Web Search API is Retiring

How to move your files to Google Drive

Office Hours for Google’s Udacity MOOCs

Google Fit Preview SDK now available

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