Welcome to "Google Developers Weekly" for October 7, 2013.
I'm Louis Gray, and this is our highlight reel of what's
happening in the world of Google Developers,
on the set and off.
As you know, social is a key ingredient in today's
applications.
Getting social network integration just right can
delight your users, but getting it wrong could get a
big mistake.
Nazmul Idris and Don Dodge get social and tell us just how to
strike the right balance.
Mano Marks put his location marker in Mountain View and
taught us how to get started with the Google
Maps SDK for iOS.
This quick tutorial guides you on how to set up your
development environment, test an API key, and create that
first application.
From Milan, Google Developer expert Mauro Solcia explained
how to create your first app that displays information from
files stored in Google Drive and display them on a web page
using JavaScript.
Back in Mountain View, Josh Livni and Felipe Hoffa gave us
a glimpse into the future of air travel using Google
BigQuery and the Google Maps JavaScript API visualizing
correlations.
And traveling to a place that knows quite a bit about
clouds, not to mention rain, we find ourselves at the first
event taped in our new Seattle studio.
Brian Dorsey provided us with a quick introduction to Google
Compute Engine load balancing.
Watch for many more clouds in this space.
From Tel Aviv, Ido Green showed us the power of the
Google Eclipse plug-in and how you can push your code to App
Engine with only two clicks.
And as we like to say, live from New York.
Ikai Lan debuted the new home of YouTube API samples on
GitHub at GitHub.com/YouTube.
The event walks through why we made the move, our project
setup, and shows basic commands and GUI tools to get
you up and running.
From Buenos Aires, Nick Bortolotti and his dog return
with "GDL LatAm" talking App Engine.
Watch Nick's talk and learn about how the Focus Ninja can
make your projects better.
Closing out the week in our studios in Mountain View, we
hosted the MEAN stack of MongoDB,
Express, Node.JS and AngularJS.
Google Engineering Director Brad Green connected with
leaders from MongoDB, Breeze.js, and StrongLoop to
talk about making managing data simpler, even in mobile
enterprise environments.
And it wouldn't be a full report if I didn't highlight
the fantastic work being done by our teammates in Android
Developers Live.
This week saw a new "Android Design in Action," a new
"GameOn!" episode with Todd Kerpleman, and a trio of
DevBites aimed at improving your applications
through best practices.
Check out all their videos at Developers.Googl
e.com/Live/Android.
And news flash--
not everybody in the world speaks English.
Because of that, Google recently worked with Udacity
to translate many of its web application MOOCs into Spanish
and Brazilian Portuguese.
Captioned versions of several videos are now available.
[SPANISH].
And this week we launched a Google+ community for Cloud
Platform developers.
We're looking for comments, videos, questions and all
other kinds of content in the new community.
And what better place than the cloud for a community about
developing in the cloud?
For those of you building sharing into your iOS
applications, we just enabled you to upgrade the Google+
sharing experience inside your apps.
The Google+ iOS SDK now enables you to use a native
share box including image and video attachments.
Best of all, this only requires you to change a
single line of source code.
See the new Google+ iOS SDK for this and other updates.
And when it comes to memory leaks, you hate them, we hate
them, your users hate them.
In our mutual never-ending quest for future memory leaks,
we've released a new doc on memory profiling for your
JavaScript apps.
Read a little, and save your own memory.
And we were really in a documenting mood this week.
Over on the Google Maps JavaScript API, we launched
new documents that show you how to add
overlays to your maps.
Check out the docs and sample code to see how to put shapes,
markers and info windows on the map.
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And check out the GDL schedule at developers.google.com/live.
I'm Louis Gray, and I'll see you back in the studio.