One of the virtues of the web is its immense reach, providing access to information for all internet users regardless of device or platform. With the explosion of mobile devices, the web has had to evolve to deliver great experiences on the small screen. This journey began a few years ago, and I am excited to be able to say that the mobile web is open for business. Join me live at Google I/O as I discuss the state of the union and how to take advantage of new experiences like AMP and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to deliver a best-in-class mobile experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKOyI-A3rS0

Check out all the requests we got on Day 1 of #io16 from devs around the world: https://goo.gl/2mcRJg.

Don't forget to keep submitting your I/O related questions today and tomorrow by posting publicly in English using the hashtag #io16request, on either Google+ or Twitter.

Here's a summary of everything we shared in this morning's #io16 keynote: https://goo.gl/aXO1vK

Be sure to check the #io16 schedule on our website (google.com/io), Android app (goo.gl/6kLOqr), and/or iOS app (goo.gl/wZI8ek) as new sessions have just been added!

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

60+ app experiments have come out of @googlevr’s Daydream Labs, and they’re just getting started. https://goo.gl/k8RZI8

Start building for Daydream today with the @googlevr SDK. https://goo.gl/Ak1CKt

After last night’s fun concerts, we’re ready to kick-off day 2 of #io16 in ~10min on google.com/io. 

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/