New ways to keep data flowing between your apps and ours

While we've moved past paper clips and passing memos around the office, today's business world still isn't as seamless as it could be. Think about the different apps we use and those highly-repetitive tasks: copy-and-paste from a CRM app to a slide deck, manual export of data from a project management app just to enter it into a spreadsheet. It's the digital equivalent of pushing paper. To this end, we're announcing APIs for Google Sheets, Slides, and Classroom to make it easier for your users to move data between your apps and ours.

The new Sheets & Slides APIs give you programmatic access to powerful features found in these products. As a result, your apps can perform a variety of tasks tying app data together: creating rich workflows that move data from your app into (and out of) Sheets, and producing polished slide decks from source data that are ready to present. Linked charts allow for easy updates in Docs and Slides when the data changes.

Finally, edtech developers will benefit from the new coursework capabilities in the Classroom API, giving you programmatic access to assignments and grades in Classroom and allowing deeper integrations with learning tools and student information systems.

We hope that these new features enable new tools coming from enterprise and educational software developers and can't wait to see what you build with them!

Find out more at: http://goo.gl/CG86Vn

#io16 #GoogleApps #GoogleSheets #Sheets #GoogleSlides #Slides #API

Firecasters, we’ve launched a Firebase Youtube Channel!

Head over to https://goo.gl/n2XqG1 for the next season of #Firecasts, plus other great content, including introductory feature videos, Firebase talks from #io16, and success stories from Firebase developers.

We hope that this dedicated Firebase Youtube channel will help you jumpstart your success by serving you the content you need to build awesome apps.

#io16 will kick off in 1H with the keynote! Tune into the live stream at google.com/io.
Send us your burning questions about the event via public English posts here on Google+ or on Twitter using #io16request. We’ll do our best to get you an answer live from Mountain View!

https://events.google.com/io2016/

Our favorite event of the year, #io16, starts TOMORROW!

-- The Shoreline Amphitheatre gates open at 7AM.
-- Breakfast will be served from 7:30 - 9:30AM.
-- The keynote gates open at 9AM.
-- The festival will kick off with the keynote at 10AM PDT sharp.
-- See the full schedule here: google.com/io/schedule#agenda

Remember that your keynote seating is pre-assigned on your badge and everyone is guaranteed a spot. If you’re planning to pick-up your badge tomorrow before the keynote, we recommend arriving early so you have enough time to grab your badge and have breakfast before the keynote starts.

You can also join us from afar by tuning into our live stream at google.com/io on all 3 days of the festival. We’re looking forward to receive your I/O related questions throughout -- just make public posts on Google+ or Twitter using #io16request and we’ll do our very best to get you an answer live from Mountain View.

Scratch and Google are proud to announce the release of a new generation of graphical programming blocks, called Scratch Blocks. These new blocks, freely available as open-source code, will enable developers to design more creative coding interfaces for children’s apps, toys, and other products.

https://goo.gl/zNth0V

#io16 #ioyouth

The TL;DR is short and sweet this week as we’re getting ready for Google I/O which starting in just a few days! In the meantime, new APIs in Chrome 51 enable developers of top-level sites and embedded content to make the web faster. And Ruby runtime on Google App Engine is going beta!

https://goo.gl/EwjLRw

#DevShow

App Indexing is now part of Firebase, Google’s unified platform to help developers build better apps with cross-platform mobile SDKs for iOS, Android and Web.

For existing developers who have implemented app indexing there is no immediate impact on the existing App Indexing integrations.

Learn more about Firebase App Indexing here: https://goo.gl/g1nr80

#firebase

And we're live at #io16! +Sundar Pichai has taken the stage and is welcoming the global developer community -- over 1.5 million people on the live stream from around the world and at the 530+ I/O Extended events in 100 countries on 6 continents, including Istanbul (the oldest GDG) and Colombo, the largest event with over 1K attendees!

Watch live: https://events.google.com/io2016/

Follow the conversation on Twitter: @googledevs

Create a personalized to-do list to help you assess your app's performance. Try out Google's Primer app https://goo.gl/rXZXHM

It’s time to start planning your #io16 agenda for later this week!

We posted over 100 new sessions and office hours to the #io16 schedule over the weekend, including “The Mobile Web: State of the Union” (https://goo.gl/oq5zgm) where you can learn more about Accelerated Mobile Pages and Progressive Web Apps, or “Google’s Vision for Machine Learning” (https://goo.gl/4JJHbe), where you can come discuss what role will developers play in building A.I.

Download the Google I/O app on Google Play (https://goo.gl/d0eh2v) or visit https://events.google.com/io2016/schedule to start adding talks to your agenda.

If you’re attending I/O in person this year, you can already pick-up your badge tomorrow, May 17 between 7AM-7PM at the Shoreline Amphitheatre. Keynote seating will be pre-assigned on a first come, first served basis during badge pick-up so plan to come by early on!

See the full badge pickup schedule at: google.com/io/schedule#agenda.

Get ready for #io16 whether you’re attending on or offsite! https://goo.gl/jlmMLF