Friday, February 10, 2017
Google debuts DIY code tools for Android phones
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Get your app featured on the first smartphone with Project Tango from Lenovo
Posted by Johnny Lee, Technical Project Lead, Project Tango
Today, at CES, Lenovo announced the development of the first consumer-ready smartphone with Project Tango. By adding a few extra sensors and some computer vision software, Project Tango transforms your smartphone into a magic lens that lets you place digital information on your physical world.

*Renderings only. Not the official Lenovo device.
To support the continued growth of the ecosystem, were also inviting developers from around the world to submit their ideas for gaming and utility apps created using Project Tango. Well pick the best ideas and provide funding and engineering support to help bring them to life, as part of the app incubator. Even better, the finished apps will be featured on Lenovos upcoming device. The submission period closes on February 15, 2016.
All you need to do is tell us about your idea and explain how Project Tango technologies will enable new experiences. Additionally, well ask you to include the following materials:
- Project schedule including milestones for development well reach out to the selected developers by March 15, 2016
- Visual mockups of your idea including concept art
- Smartphone app screenshots and videos, such as captured app footage
- Appropriate narrative including storyboards, etc.
- Breakdown of your team and its members
- One pager introducing your past app portfolio and your company profile
For some inspiration, Lowes Home Improvement teamed with developer Elementals Web to demonstrate a use case they are each working on for the launch. In the app, you can point your Project Tango-enabled smartphone at your kitchen to see where a new refrigerator or dishwasher might fit virtually.

Elsewhere, developer Schell Games lets you play virtual Jenga on any surface with friends. But this time, there is no cleanup involved when the blocks topple over.

There are also some amazing featured apps for Project Tango on Google Play. You can pick up your own Project Tango Tablet Development Kit here to brainstorm new fun and immersive experiences that use the space around you. Apply now!
Saturday, February 4, 2017
Sun Surveyor brings augmented reality to photographers using Google Maps APIs
(Cross-posted on the Geo Developers Blog.)
Editors note: Todays guest blogger is Adam Ratana, developer of Sun Surveyor. Read how Sun Surveyor is using Google Maps APIs to help photographers capture the perfect photo.
Im a photography enthusiast, and Im always looking for ways to improve my work. Thats what led me to develop Sun Surveyor, an iOS and Android app that uses Google Maps APIs to visualize the location of the sun and the moon anywhere in the world. The app makes it easy to figure out when the natural lighting will be just right and get the ideal shot.
Sun Surveyor uses augmented reality to overlay the paths of the sun and moon on a cameras view, so you can see where in the sky theyll be at a specific time and place. Photographers can use it to plan their shots ahead of time, and businesses can use it to gauge things like how best to align solar panels to make the most efficient use of the angle of the sun.
The app uses multiple Google Maps APIs, including the Elevation API, the Time Zone API, the Google Maps SDK for iOS and the Google Maps Android API. The Android API, which includes Street View, was particularly helpful. It allowed me to overlay the path of the sun and moon on any Street View location anywhere in the world. For programming details, see this blog post.
The following screen captures give you a sense of how the app works. They show overlays on top of the iconic Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. The first shows the paths of the sun (yellow line) and moon (blue line) over an aerial view of Yosemite Valley. The green line shows the distance between the photographer and the object to be photographed in this case, Half Dome.

This next screen capture shows how the app looks when in Street View mode. Again, the yellow line shows the suns path, and the blue line shows the moons path. The green line represents the horizon. You can see how the app lets you plan the right time to get a shot of the sun behind Half Dome: in this particular instance, 8:06 am.

Nearly 500,000 people around the world have downloaded the free version of Sun Surveyor, and many have paid for the full edition. Theyre taking remarkable photos as a result, and what started as a hobby for me has turned into a business thanks to Google Maps APIs.
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Complete device MDM and app MAM Mobile Management across Google Apps
Working on the move has gotten pretty easy. With just your phone, you can set up your next meeting in Calendar, keep track of your expenses in Concur and follow up with a new client in Gmail. And as the IT admin, its now easier than ever to get your team up and running on their own devices with Google Apps Mobile Management. Starting today, with the new Device Policy app on iOS, employees can easily see which apps are company approved, install them, and keep getting things done. On Android, admins can already use the Device Policy app and Google Play for Work to manage devices and apps (MDM and MAM for alphabet soup lovers), while on iOS, admins can also already manage device policies like requiring passwords and removing company information with account wipe (MDM) directly from the Admin console.



Thursday, January 12, 2017
Screens go Google at the Digital Signage Expo
Editors note: Chrome offers secure, customizable and easily manageable devices and apps for todays business. Join us for Chrome Live, April 22-24, to learn how web-based solutions can help maximize your companys productivity. Register here.
Since last years Digital Signage Expo and the introduction of Chromes single app kiosk mode, many customers and developers have built digital signage applications on Chromeboxes. Chromeboxes are secure, easy to manage and cost effective, making them ideal to display content and engage customers in any location. Chicos chose Chrome to manage and display content on over 5000 screens across more than 1500 stores.
Weve done more with the Chrome platform to make signage even easier, adding new features that make it seamless to plan signage content and manage device health. Today, were announcing these capabilities:
- The Chrome Sign Builder helps you create intelligent digital signs that are easy to build, schedule and deploy. You can add and manage content for any number of screens, and schedule that content to run when needed, across many screens at different times of day. A great example of this in action: displaying breakfast, lunch and dinner menus at various restaurant locations across multiple time zones.
- The Chrome App Builder makes it easy to build third-party kiosk apps. You can set up applications to eliminate the first-run configuration process and rapidly deploy across multiple screens. We have several third party partners whove built solutions for signage including Stratos, Rise, Arreya, Wondersign, Four Winds Interactive, Scala, and Industry Weapon; and were adding more to this ecosystem.
- Ongoing reporting monitors the health of your kiosks and signage at all times. Youll get alerts from Chrome device management if a screen goes down, and can remotely reboot the device to get it back online without dispatching a technician. You can also get live updates about system usage and capture screen grabs to see exactly what viewers see.
In addition, today AOPEN announced three new commercial Chrome OS devices that will add more durability to digital signage. By working with AOPEN, we can offer more rugged hardware equipped to handle harsh conditions like a hot and greasy back-of-house line at a restaurant.

Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Learn about Google Translate in Coffee with a Googler
Posted by Laurence Moroney, Developer Advocate
Over the past few months, weve been bringing you Coffee with a Googler, giving you a peek at people working on cool stuff that you might find inspirational and useful. Starting with this weeks episode, were going to accompany each video with a short post for more details, while also helping you make the most of the tech highlighted in the video.
This week we meet with MacDuff Hughes from the Google Translate team. Google Translate uses statistics based translation. By finding very large numbers of examples of translations from one language to another, it uses statistics to see how various phrases are treated, so it can make reasonable estimates at the correct phrases that are natural sounding in the target language. For common phrases, there are many candidate translations, so the engine converts them within the context of the passage that the phrase is in. Images can also be translated. When you point your mobile device at printed text and it will translate to the preferred for you.
Translate is adding languages all the time, and part of its mission is to serve languages that are less frequently used such as Gaelic, Welsh or Maori, in the same manner as the more commonly used ones, such as English, Spanish and French. To this end, Translate supports more than 90 languages. In the quest to constantly improve translation, the technology provides a way for the community to validate translations, and this is particularly used by less commonly used translations, effectively helping them to grow and thrive. It also enhances the machine translation by having people involved too.
You can learn more about Google Translate, and the translate app here.
Developers have a couple of options to use translate:
- The Free Website Translate plugin that you can add to your site and have translations available immediately.
- The Cloud-based Translate API that you can use to build apps or sites that have translation in them.
Watch the episode here:
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Google Redefines GPS Navigation Landscape Google Maps Navigation For Android 2 0
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Monday, December 19, 2016
Google I O and whats next for work
Google I/O, our annual developer conference, is wrapping up this afternoon. I always love this event because its our chance to shine the spotlight on our amazing global developer community the creative coders who are building whats next. As we think about developers, along with our own products and tools, were focused on the big opportunities of the future: provide the best-in-class mobile platform, help the next billion users by putting the power of the Internet in their hands and solving big problems to make peoples lives better through machine learning and access to great products. There were lots of exciting announcements this year, from Now on Tap to a completely new Photos experience. If you havent already, be sure to watch the keynote given by Sundar Pichai, SVP of Products and read the official blog post. For cool scenes and coverage from the floor, check out our Google for Work at I/O Collection on Google+.
Im particularly excited that many of the announcements we made will impact the world of Google for Work and Google for Education. To highlight a few:
- Android M. Androids latest release packs hundreds of performance improvements, including better battery life, easier app linking and streamlined permissions. And with our recent launch of Android for Work, the momentum for Android in the workplace is growing.
- Firebase. One of the key themes of this years I/O is empowering developers with the tools they need to thrive. To that end, Firebase makes building great mobile and web apps easier than ever. It manages the infrastructure on the backend on behalf of mobile developers so they can focus on the high-value stuff: delivering an awesome user experience on the front end. Firebase addresses key mobile use cases, including native support for offline usage when a network connection is unavailable, and automatic data synchronization in real time to the cloud and across diverse client devices. Nearly 200,000 developers rely on Firebase already, and Im confident it will help accelerate development of mobile apps, including enterprise apps. Check out the teams I/O Session to learn more.
- Inbox. Back in October, we introduced a new kind of inboxone that works for you. In March we announced the Inbox early adopter program, to bring Inbox by Gmail to Google Apps customers. And while were still in the early stages, at Google I/O we announced that were expanding the early adopter program so any Google Apps for Work customer who wants to use Inbox can. We also announced new ways Inbox can help save you time and stay organized, with Undo Send to take back emails you realize are a mistake, even from your mobile phone, and something many of you requested: custom signatures.
- Places API for iOS. We launched the Places API for Android in April, along with an iOS beta. Now the Places API for iOS is officially available for all developers with all the same features as the Android version. This means you can integrate Googles database of 100 million places worldwide into your app experience. Check out the announcement post to learn more and read customer experiences.
- Google Expeditions. Expeditions is a new educational tool that lets teachers take their classes on virtual field trips to anywhere using Google Cardboard. Its a great, inexpensive way for the next generation of creators to experience their world.
We know that technology works best when it gets out of the way and helps people get stuff done from anywhere. These announcements are a step in that direction: new approaches to managing email, powerful tools for developers to build great apps and an updated version of Android. The future of work is bright, and I cant wait to see what comes next.
Belgian employment agency VDAB offers job services at the speed of Google Apps
Editors note: Todays guest blogger is Michael De Blauwe, project leader of the Innovation Lab at VDAB, the public employment bureau for Belgiums Flanders region.
In the past, clients walked into one of our employment offices and waited to meet with one of our consultants. Today, they dont have to leave home to get face-to-face feedback on their resumes or participate in mock interviews. Timing is critical for job seekers, and at VDAB the public employment bureau for Flanders were using Google Apps to more quickly and efficiently help people in need of job services and training. Were also reaching more people while saving money by reducing the number of physical employment centers by nearly 30%.
What used to take a week for an in-person resume workshop followed by a practice interview, now happens in less than 24 hours. Our thousands of employment specialists use Google Hangouts and Google Docs to review customers resumes and coach them on interview skills. This digital transformation has been a hit with job seekers. In 2013, we had 4,920 people use our new e-coaching services, and 83% said they would recommend it to friends.
Were not just using Apps to serve more people were delivering better service. VDAB job coaches now use Google Drive to store resources and Docs to comment on clients resumes while speaking with them on Hangouts. All of a clients job-related files are stored in one place, with all feedback contained within the document.
Our team also works together more efficiently. Because our coaches work from different locations throughout Flanders, its helpful to have a central repository that allows people to share information and work together from different locations. We use Google Drive to share information about job openings and Google Sheets to track customer queries in a single document that everyone can access. Before Google, wed send thousands of emails back and forth to share resources, respond to customers, and schedule appointments.
When we made a company-wide push behind Apps in 2012, using our early Google adopters to inform others, we found that it was already taking hold. Now that all of VDAB has switched to Apps, were moving faster, helping more people build their job-seeking skills and matching more employers with qualified candidates.
We worked with Capgemini, a Google Apps Premier Partner in Belgium, who performed this successful migration.
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
You’re invited to submit an app to the Google Fit Developer Challenge
Challenge winners will be featured on Google Play in front of Android users around the world. Runners-ups will also receive prizes, in the form of smart devices from Google, adidas, Polar, and Withings, so that they can continue to tinker and improve their fitness apps with the latest hardware.
Check out the challenge website to find out how to enter*. You will also find some helpful resources to find inspiration. We encourage you to join the Google Fit Developer Community on Google+ to discuss your ideas and the challenge.
* The challenge is open to registered Google Play developers in the US, UK, France, Germany, India, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan who are over the age of 18 (or the age of majority in their country). For the full terms and conditions, read the official rules.
Posted by Angana Ghosh, Product Manager, Google Fit
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Google to Unveil Service to Let Users Stream Their Music
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Saving a life through technology Coffee with a Googler
Posted by Laurence Moroney, Developer Advocate
In this weeks Coffee with a Googler, were joined by Heidi Dohse from the Google Cloud team to talk about how she saved her own life through technology. At Google she works on the Cloud Platform team that supports our genomics work, and has a passion for the future of the delivery of health care.
When she was a child, Heidi Dohse had an erratic heartbeat, but, without knowing anything about it, she just ignored it. As a teen she became a competitive windsurfer and skier, and as part of a surgery on her knee between seasons, she had an EKG and discovered that her heart was beating irregularly at 270bpm.
She had an experimental surgery and was immediately given a pacemaker, and became a young heart patient, expecting not to live much longer. Years later, Heidi is now on her 7th pacemaker, but it doesnt stop her from staying active as an athlete. Shes a competitive cyclist, often racing hundreds of miles, and climbing tens of thousands of feet as she races.
At the core of all this is her use of technology. She has carefully managed her health by collecting and analyzing the data from her pacemaker. The data goes beyond just heartbeat, and includes things such as the gyroscope, oxygen utilization, muscle stimulation and electrical impulses, she can pro-actively manage her health.
Its the future of health care -- instead of seeing a doctor for an EKG every few months, with this technology and other wearables, one can constantly check their health data, and know ahead of time if there would be any health issues. One can proactively ensure their health, and pre-empt any health issues.
Learn more in the video.
Monday, November 14, 2016
Protect your Google Account with Password Alert
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog.)
Would you enter your email address and password on this page?

This looks like a fairly standard login page, but its not. Its what we call a phishing page, a site run by people looking to receive and steal your password. If you type your password here, attackers could steal it and gain access to your Google Accountand you may not even know it. This is a common and dangerous trap: the most effective phishing attacks can succeed 45 percent of the time, nearly 2% of messages to Gmail are designed to trick people into giving up their passwords, and various services across the web send millions upon millions of phishing emails, every day.
To help keep your account safe, today were launching Password Alert, a free, open-source Chrome extension that protects your Google and Google Apps for Work Accounts. Once youve installed it, Password Alert will show you a warning if you type your Google password into a site that isnt a Google sign-in page. This protects you from phishing attacks and also encourages you to use different passwords for different sites, a security best practice.
Heres how it works for consumer accounts. Once youve installed and initialized Password Alert, Chrome will remember a scrambled version of your Google Account password. It only remembers this information for security purposes and doesnt share it with anyone. Next, if you type your password into a site that isnt a Google sign-in page, Password Alert will show you a notice like the one below. This alert will tell you that youre at risk of being phished so you can update your password and protect yourself.

Password Alert is also available to Google for Work customers, including Google Apps and Drive for Work. Your administrator can install Password Alert for everyone in the domains they manage, and receive alerts when Password Alert detects a possible problem. This can help spot malicious attackers trying to break into employee accounts and also reduce password reuse. Administrators can find more information in the Help Center.

We work to protect users from phishing attacks in a variety of ways. Were constantly improving our Safe Browsing technology, which protects more than 1 billion people on Chrome, Safari and Firefox from phishing and other dangerous sites via bright, red warnings. We also offer tools like 2-Step Verification and Security Key that people can use to protect their Google Accounts and stay safe online. And of course, you can also take a Security Checkup at any time to make sure the safety and security information associated with your account is current.
To get started with Password Alert, visit the Chrome Web Store or the FAQ.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Add Google to your iOS Apps with CocoaPods
Posted by Jonathan Beri, Product Manager
Today, were announcing that CocoaPods will be the primary channel to acquire Google SDKs for iOS. CocoaPods is a popular, free dependency manager for iOS that significantly simplifies the process of importing libraries and frameworks into Xcode. And it will help you manage your dependencies between our various libraries.
While there was a small but growing number of official Google Pods, as well as a few Pods written by other iOS developers, it was often difficult for developer to find the right SDK. With todays announcement, some of our key libraries, like Google Cloud Messaging and the Google Maps SDK for iOS can now be found on the public CocoaPods service. Going forward, new iOS SDKs will be packaged and documented as Pods and published on cocoapods.org. You can find the full list of Google Pods and all supporting documentation at developer.google.com/ios/cocoapods.
If you havent used CocoaPods yet, now is a great time to give it a try. Add GoogleAnalytics to a Podfile to start counting new users. Or pod install your way to adding AdMob ads in your app. And check out pod try, a CocoaPods plugin that allows you to quickly launch our demo projects.
For more iOS developer protips and to learn more about Googles iOS SDKs, please check out the Route 85 video series from Todd Kerpelman. We look forward to all the great Google-powered iOS apps you will create!
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Custom email apps and more for Google Domains
(Cross-posted on the Google and Your Business Blog.)
Last year we introduced Google Domains in the U.S. to make it easy for your business to get online with a domain name and website. We wanted to make finding, buying and managing domains for your business simple, and we partnered with best-in-class website builders like Blogger, Shopify, Squarespace, Weebly and Wix to help you create your site no technical experience required.
Since then, weve helped people register hundreds of thousands of domain names and create tens of thousands of websites, many of whom are businesses like yours looking to build and expand their online presence. Through your continued feedback, today were introducing upgrades to improve the Google Domains experience by adding:
- Custom email addresses create an email address like, you@yourdomain or sales@yourdomain via Google Apps for Work.
- Over 90 new domain name endings purchase domains with new endings like, .life, .world, .business, .cool, .pizza, .gifts, and .football (heres the new full list).
- Domain ownership transfer allows you to always make sure the right person is managing the right domains (learn more here).
Custom email addresses are a key part of building your online identity. Email addresses such as you@yourdomain help you establish credibility when you communicate with customers. Setting up a custom email address with Google Domains is an optional service for $5/month/user, and with that youll also get the full Google Apps for Work productivity suite. Google Apps for Work includes helpful business tools like video meetings, shared calendars, online document editing and 30 GB of file storage.


See you online at www.google.com/domains.
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Mobile Doc Scanner MDScan Apk v3 1 1 Patched

With MDScan users are free to scan any type of document, ranging from receipts to text pages and almost everything in between, on the go anywhere and anytime.
A perfect companion for busy users, MDScan allows anyone to transform everything from invoices to whiteboards and classes notes, magazine articles and more into a PDF format in order to easily export them, share and e-mail it to others, or for any other reason they can come up with. MDScan automatically detects borders, corrects distortion, and equalizes brightness to create clear, legible documents at a very high speed for your convenience.
Going above and beyond other mobile scanning solutions MDScan offers Batch shooting mode for a super fast scanning so users can easily scan within seconds multiple pages and save scanned files for batch processing later.
The app shines in terms of uploading as well as all document conversion is performed locally right on users device. This means that you can upload documents to cloud storage services, including Dropbox, Google Docs, or Box.net, email services, or Facebook and Twitter that is guaranteed to go off quickly, without a hitch, and without risk of any potentially sensitive information becoming compromised.
Simply put theres enough for you to worry about without having to go out of your way to scan and convert files into PDFs should the need arise, and now with MDScan its one worry you wont ever have again.
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? Transform any image into PDF format.
? Automatic, high quality document edge detection and perspective correction.
? Manual free Advanced image processing to enhance poor quality images and documents.
? Quickly scan and manage multi-page documents on the go
? Scan, upload or send any document quickly, including receipts, news and magazine articles, invoices, coupons, posters and much more
? Cloud storage and social network integration for accessibility and sharing
Dont hesitate to contact us at any time and send your suggestions or questions to our support email. We try to do our best to answer to your comments as soon as possible.
This software is registered by Russian Federal Institute Of Industrial Property # 2013619506
WHATS NEW
Improved Lolipop (new API) Camera
Share multiple PDFs
Share PDF from list of scans by long click
Export scan as separated JPEG files
Minor interface improvments
Minor bugs fixes
This app has no advertisements
Download APK:
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Additional Server:
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Google Play Store:
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Friday, October 28, 2016
Google Vault now covers Hangouts for work chat
As an IT admin you want your organization to be free to focus on getting stuff done. But part of your role is also to make sure you stay on top of legal compliance. Today were making it a little bit easier to do both with two new Hangouts features.
Over the next few days, well roll out an admin option that lets you manage Hangouts chat history in your organization, so that you can make certain that its either on or off. People in your organization can have the freedom to chat with whomever they want whether that person is part of your organization or not and you can be sure that new employee conversations stay personal and private, because theyll disappear shortly after taking place.

Find out how to tailor Hangouts to best suit your organizations compliance needs.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Memory Booster v5 8 APK Full
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Supported language: English, Korean, Japanese, Italian, French, Russian, Spanish, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Features:
* Real-time Memory Status Report & Monitor
Memory Booster provides a live chart to demonstrate your devices total/free memory and current memory usage.
* Setting Your Performance Target
With Auto Boost Threshold set, Memory Booster keeps your memory higher than desired level, and act immediately if memory drops down.
* One-click Quick Memory Boosting
Besides automatic memory boosting, Memory Booster also allows you to manually boost your memory by Quick Boost.
* Auto-boosting in the Background
With Auto Boost Interval, Memory Booster runs in the background and automatically reclaims memory for your Android at interval.
* Android system crash protection
Memory Booster always watches your system resources and cleans up system memory once it reaches a critical point.
* And there is more
Other features include embedded Task Killer, Whitelist Manager, Boost Level Manager & Memory Boost Log, which assist Memory Booster to perform more efficiently and friendly.
Whats New
Changelogs:
v5.8
- Optimize Quick Boost performance
- Fix issues reported by users
- Optimize the animation
- Add Share feature?users can share the app via Email, SMS etc)
- Other improvement
v5.7
- Optimize Notification Bar: Show free memory, percentage and running processes
- Optimize Quick Boost
- Fix widget failure issue
- Fix white list does not keep issue
- Remove Kiip Rewards
- Other Bug fixing
Read Here: How to Install APK
Requirements: Android 1.6+
File Size: 1 MB
Download Link: Mediafire.com
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Obtain Google Maps API key
Friday, October 7, 2016
Google Keep save your thoughts from wherever—including iPhones
(Cross-posted on the Google Docs Blog.)
Forget fumbling with sticky notes or trying to recall that last item on your to-do list. When youre trying to capture a moment or remember a task, Google Keep can help. And starting today, the things you love about Keep on the web and Android are now available on iOS:
- Find what you need, quickly by searching and filtering your notes by color and type like images, audio and text. You can also add labels to help you organize your thoughts.
- Set time or location-based reminders so you wont forget to swing by the dry cleaners or miss an item on your shopping list.
- Do more, together by sharing your notes so you can divvy up the packing list and watch as the items get checked off in real time.

Give the new Keep app for iOS a try (its rolling out today) and capture whats on your mind!