The Google AMP Cache reduces latency and bytes at scale so pages load quick. Learn about recent improvements to make it even faster: https://goo.gl/QDU2ts

India's leading developer app studio - TechJini Solutions, stepped up their game w/ Google Developers Agency Program https://goo.gl/mPCNdA

Productionize your Polymer + Firebase app the easy way with polymer-build 🏗 😅 https://goo.gl/wgMgPd

Find out how you compare to developers around you, and around the world. Get instant feedback from VisionMobile's 15-minute developer survey, and insights into the global community in February 2017. http://vmob.me/DE1Q17Google3

Learn about Kubernetes and Cloud on #CoffeeWithAGoogler via +Laurence Moroney https://goo.gl/zTWUDY

Images for Billions #4

When your Android app is doing the work of fetching images over a network, you can leave your users waiting if connections are slow. Two tips to keep things feeling speedy:

First, prioritize text data requests before images. This lets your user navigate past loading images that they don’t need anyway.

Next, display placeholder colors while fetching images. The palette support library lets you select a placeholder color block based on the requested image’s color balance, and set that as the background in an ImageView, so the look of your app stays consistent while loading images.

This is the fourth of five weekly posts we’re sharing on how to optimize images on Android and Web for billions of users. Check out our full lists of resources at g.co/dev/billions.

G+ Images post #1: https://goo.gl/6jZiVA
G+ Images post #2: https://goo.gl/uNn7hj
G+ Images post #3: https://goo.gl/IH3wQF

Pallet support library: https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/support-library/features.html#v7-palette

Here’s an example of using placeholder colors to show images are loading:

Hundreds of education developers use the Classroom API to integrate their applications with Google Classroom. Today, we’re making the coursework endpoints more robust, with additional management capabilities. Applications can now: create and update questions, modify and delete coursework , add Drive items and YouTube videos to coursework and student submissions,

For more details on what you can build with coursework, check out today’s announcement (https://goo.gl/4yczXH), review the documentation, the FAQ, and ask questions on Stack Overflow using the “google-classroom” tag. As always, let us know what you’re building using the #withClassroom hashtag on Twitter or G+. We look forward to working together to make it even easier for teachers and students to use the tools they love with Classroom.


What does 2017 have in store for your mobile app? Consider using Firebase to boost its quality! https://goo.gl/ddxMIp

AdMob Native Express UITableView - Mobile Ads Garage #12

Episode #12 of the Mobile Ads Garage has hit the airwaves! Native Express ads fit right in with list-based user interfaces, and in this episode you'll learn how to integrate them into an iOS app that uses a UITableViewController for its primary UI. Along the way you'll get a detailed set of steps, see screencasts of implementation in Xcode, plus get a handy technique for tapping into the ad lifecycle to load one after another instead of all at once!

On this week's #DevShow: Google Assistant, Augmented Reality, Machine Learning, and more with +Timothy Jordan!

Land Lines, an experiment exploring +Google Earth satellite images through gesture. Doodle to begin http://g.co/landlines

Formatting text with the Google Slides API

One of the best practices for creating great slide decks is to minimize the amount of text. It means that if you do have text in a presentation, the (few) words that you do use must have higher impact and be visually appealing. This is even more true when the slides are generated by a software application rather than being crafted by hand, for example, when using the recently-launched (http://goo.gl/o6EFwk) Google Slides API.

In this DevByte video, Google engineer +wesley chun shows developers how to format text using the Slides API. The sample app in the video creates a slide with several text paragraphs then uses the API to format that text in a variety of ways. If you want to dig into the code, check out the deep dive post (http://goo.gl/YwUilm)

Find out more at https://goo.gl/zkbilV

#SlidesAPI #GSuite #GoogleSlides #SheetsAPI