1.
Google APIs Update
A whirlwind tour of what’s new and cool in the
Google Developers world
April 2014

2.
Ido Green
Developer Advocate, Google
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3.
Integrate Google’s
technologies into your apps

4.
Android

5.
1billion
total global
activations
1.5 M
daily global
activations

6.
60
Partnerships
OEMs
329
Available in
Operators
190
Sold in
Countries

7.
❖ 2GB RAM
❖ 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro
❖ Dual band Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)
❖ Bluetooth 4.0
❖ 4G LTE (single US model)
❖ HDMI Output
❖ NFC
❖ Wireless charging

8.
Hebrew, Arabic RTL
Bluetooth
AVRCP Background
Wi-Fi
locationDial pad
autocompleteAfricaans,
Amharic, Hindi,
Swahili and Zulu support
Android 4.3 Jelly Bean
Bluetooth SmartOpenGL
ES 3.0 DRM
APIsRestricted
profilesEasier text
inputFaster user-
switching

9.
Google Play
game services
Cloud save
Achievements
Leaderboards
Multiplayer

10.
50B
App downloads
total
2.5B
App downloads
per month
2.5x
ARPU
yoy
ARPU = Average Revenue Per User, Increase from 6/1/2012 to 5/1/2013

11.
New User Interface
Better Discoverability
Clean UI showcasing more
content
Recommendations based on
downloads, social, local
Improved Purchase Flow

12.
Google Play: a truly global distribution platform
People from over 200 countries
download apps on Google Play every day

13.
In-App Revenue Growth
4/2013
7x
5/2012

14.
1.7x Purchase rate on tablets
compared to phones
2.2x Purchase rate on recent platform
versions (ICS+) compared to prior ones
purchase rate = number of purchases / active device

15.
Higher-rated apps monetize better
74x
1.8x
2.8x
Revenue and app rating data from 2/1/2013 to 5/1/2013

16.
Chrome / HTML5
The web rock!

17.
CHROME
Focus on speed, simplicity, and security,
and bring it to
mobile, desktop, Chromebook, Chromecast.

18.
CHROME
Chrome focus areas
● Mobile and Open Web Platform
● Chrome Apps
● Chrome DevTools
● Polymer
● Dart
● Performance

19.
Mobile and Open Web Platform
● Parity with desktop
● Accelerate past desktop
CHROME

20.
CHROME
Chrome Apps
● Build installed, native apps using web technologies

21.
CHROME
Chrome DevTools
● Quickly iterate styles, debug problems, investigate performance
● Evolving quickly, jump on Canary for latest

22.
CHROME
Polymer
● 43 elements and counting!
○ polymer-project.org
○ join @polymerproject
● Chromestatus.com - ya! It
was built with Polymer!
● Give a try to our DevFest
Polymer code lab (link)

23.
Dart
● > 400 community packages in pub.dartlang.org
● Popular ports: Angular.dart, Polymer.dart
● dartlang.org
CHROME

24.
CHROME
Performance
● 3 Pillars : Network, Compute, Render
● Start Here : #perfmatters on HTML5 Rocks
● Great #perfmatters community on G+ and Twitter

25.
CHROME
Education
● Focus on education continues:
○ Udacity
■ CS255 (HTML5 Game Development)
● Join 80,000+ students!
■ CS256 (Mobile Web Development)
● Preregistration open
○ Code School
■ Discover DevTools (Try it out!)

26.
CHROME
Chrome Web Lab
● Open Sourced: Web client, Web Server and Hardware
○ https://github.com/GoogleChrome/ChromeWebLab

27.
Google Cloud Platform
Performance, Scale, Value

28.
For the past 14 years, Google has been
building out the world’s fastest, most
powerful, highest quality cloud
infrastructure on the planet.
Images by Connie Zhou

29.
Cloud Platform is built on the same
infrastructure that powers Google.
Images by Connie Zhou

30.
Google's Network Spans the Globe

31.
BigQuery
Compute Storage
Cloud Storage
App Services
Compute Engine
App Engine
Queues
Caching
Cloud Endpoints
Persistent Disk
Cloud Datastore
Cloud SQL
Google Cloud Platform

32.
What’s New with the Google Cloud Platform?
● Load Balancing for Google Compute Engine

33.
What’s New with the Google Cloud Platform?
● Load Balancing for Google Compute Engine
● Improvements to the Google Cloud Datastore
Cloud Datastore

34.
What’s New with the Google Cloud Platform?
● Load Balancing for Google Compute Engine
● Improvements to the Google Cloud Datastore
● Improvements to the App Engine PHP runtime
App Engine

35.
What’s New with the Google Cloud Platform?
● Load Balancing for Google Compute Engine
● Improvements to the Google Cloud Datastore
● Improvements to the App Engine PHP runtime
● Encryption at rest for Cloud Storage objects

36.
What’s New with the Google Cloud Platform?
● Load Balancing for Google Compute Engine
● Improvements to the Google Cloud Datastore
● Improvements to the App Engine PHP runtime
● Encryption at rest for Cloud Storage objects
● (preview) Dedicated memcache for App Engine
App Engine
cache

37.
What’s New with the Google Cloud Platform?
● Load Balancing for Google Compute Engine
● Improvements to the Google Cloud Datastore
● Improvements to the App Engine PHP runtime
● Encryption at rest for Cloud Storage objects
● (preview) Dedicated memcache for App Engine
● (trusted tester) VM runtime for App Engine backends
App Engine

38.
Connect and Stay Informed
Google Cloud Platform Web Site
https://cloud.google.com
Google Cloud Platform Blog
https://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com
Google+
https://plus.google.com/+GoogleCloudPlatform
Twitter
https://twitter.com/GoogleCloud

39.
Google+ Platform API

40.
Social Features
SIGN IN
Make account creation easy
Build on the trust that users
have with Google
PERSONALIZE
Use profile info to make
users feel “at home” in your
app
Use people info to make
users feel like they’re “not
alone” in your app
SHARE
Expose activities in your app
to desired audience
Don’t make your own social
messaging platform

41.
Google+ Sign-In ButtonSIGN IN

42.
Make the user feel at homePERSONALIZE

43.
Don’t make the user feel lonelyPERSONALIZE

44.
Targeted sharingSHARE
➔ Involve close friends with targeted
sharing
➔ Get friends to join from the stream
using interactive posts

45.
A Button for every social actionSHARE

46.
Google+ API
Google+ API (https://developers.google.com/+/)
● Sign In Button
● Profile and People information
● Interactive Posts
● OTA install on Android
● Seamless SSO (Single Sign-On)
● Moments (app activities)
● Domains API (for Google Apps for Enterprise domains)

47.
Google Drive
Drive Presentation Subtitle

48.
"The best computer is the one you
have with you when you want
something done."
Jakob Nielson
Nielson Norman Group

49.
Lucid Chart is the easiest way to draw flowcharts, mockups, UML, mind maps and
more. Work together in real time with your team and clients.
Drive users vs non-Drive users
3x
documents
created
40%
more
conversions
4x
as much
time in app
50%
larger
team size

50.
Google Maps
Three platforms, one map

51.
Immersive interaction within the mapConsistent UX across platforms

52.
New Maps Design

53.
Deliver users to their destinations with
Street View

54.
Places API: New Supplemental review data

55.
YouTube
YouTube Team Presentation Subtitle

56.
One billion unique users per month

57.
YouTube APIs

58.
YouTube APIs
Playback
Android
Flash
HTML5
iOS

59.
YouTube APIs
Playback YouTube.com offsite
Video Upload
Activities / Playlists
Videos / Channels
Discovery
Android
Flash
HTML5
iOS

60.
YouTube APIs
Channel(s)
Playback YouTube.com offsite
Video Upload
Analytics
Metrics, Metrics,
Metrics
Customize Reports
Activities / Playlists
Videos / Channels
Discovery
Android
Flash
HTML5
iOS

61.
What’s New with the YouTube APIs?
● Subscription Widget
● Live Streaming API
● InVideo Programming API
● Channel Branding
● Many more...

62.
YouTube Developer Web Site
http://www.youtube.com/dev
YouTube API Blog
http://apiblog.youtube.com/
Google+
https://plus.google.com/+YouTubeDev
Twitter
https://twitter.com/YouTubeDev

63.
Bringing it all together

64.
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65.
Thank you!
Questions? Comments?
April 2014
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