Watch how the Google Developers Agency Program helped Raizlabs develop the amazing Six Flags app and solve the “human problem”. https://goo.gl/1Zyfn7

Today on #DevShow, +Timothy Jordan shares updates from: The Chrome Media team, The Google Brain Team, and more: https://goo.gl/s17rFM

Formatting text with the Google Sheets & Slides APIs

The Google Sheets and Google Slides APIs are there for developers who need to programmatically create, populate, or otherwise update spreadsheets or slide presentations, respectively. While text formatting is something you typically do via their user interfaces, these are also features available through both APIs, and in case you missed them during the holidays, the Google Developers team published two episodes hosted by Google engineer Wesley Chun ( +wesley chun) who leads you through short code samples demoing how to format text with each API.

https://goo.gl/AKMkgZ

Formatting text using Sheets API requires developers know the range of cells they wish to format, and depending on the type of format desired, may have to issue a variety of formatting commands. These include requests like setting frozen rows, adding cell validation, or applying a specific formatting command such as bolding or italics across multiple cells. The DevByte video (see post at https://goo.gl/BUJqWd) covers each of these use cases.

https://goo.gl/1zm11d

For the Slides API, you no longer think about formatting a range of cells, but rather, must consider the structure of the text copy that is on a slide. You’re thinking paragraphs and indexes of the text copy within paragraphs. And, more than likely, you’ll be updating the “text style” for the affected text. Check the video (see post at https://goo.gl/LIF1NI) to learn how to tweak the text style on slides in a variety of ways.

To get started with the Sheets API, try our codelab (g.co/codelabs/sheets) which guides you step-by-step in building a Node.js reporting tool. Also be sure to check out the official API documentation (developers.google.com/sheets). To learn about the Slides API, you’ll find many quick start examples and guides in the API documentation (developers.google.com/slides). To see an example of a useful app you can build with the Slides API, check out our Markdown-to-Google Slides coverter (also a Node.js app), now a popular repo on Github (github.com/googlesamples/md2googleslides). #GSuiteDevShow #Google #SheetsAPI #SlidesAPI #GSuite

Introducing Draco, an open source compression library for 3D graphics, including meshes and point-cloud data, from the Chrome Media team: https://goo.gl/HtnlZa


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

Around the world, from here to there, to the most clever minds, the secret will share. #googledevs #savethedate http://goo.gl/oqro8L 

Catch up with #Firebase in this blog post by +Laurence Moroney.

On this week's #DevShow: Boost your app's quality, Santa Tracker meets #Firebase, and more with +Timothy Jordan: https://goo.gl/5259nZ

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.