Which three letters could you hear proudly proclaimed again and again
throughout the sessions of Google I/O 2010? ...that’s right, A-P-I! Google APIs form the
foundation of many of our developer products, and across the board, APIs made a significant
impact at Google I/O.
If you missed any of this
excitement, today we’re pleased to announce that the following videos for the official Google
API track are now available:
Bringing Google to your site - Google’s DeWitt Clinton
and Jeff Scudder discuss a number of ways to integrate Google products with a site, including
the Google Custom Search Engine, the Feed API with push, the Google Checkout Element, AdSense,
Buzz Buttons, and more. DeWitt and Jeff also show how to “make the web beautiful” by
announcing the new Google Font API.
Google Chart Tools: Google's new unified approach for creating
dynamic charts on the web - Google’s Michael Fink and Amit Weinstein announce
several new charts and features and expose the new look of the Google Chart Tools gallery.
They also present the relative advantages of the Interactive Chart API (based on JavaScript)
vs. the Image Charts API (based on server-side rendering), and show how they can work together
to augment the users’ experience.
Google Analytics APIs: End to end - Google's Nick
Mikhaelovski delivers an unprecedented sneak peak at how Google Analytics processes and
calculates the data in reports. He also discusses the vision for Google Analytics integration
tools and takes a look at how to integrate web analytics data with business data using the
Google Analytics Platform.
Building real-time web apps with App Engine and the Feed
API - Google’s Brett Bavar and Moishe Lettvin introduce two new tools to power the
real-time web: the App Engine Channel API and the Feed API v2 with push updates. In a
technical deep dive, they discuss how the Channel API pushes data from App Engine to a browser
and how the new version of the Feed API subscribes to PubSubHubbub feeds and receive updates
pushed to the browser.
YouTube API uploads: Tools, tips, and best practices -
Google’s Jeffrey Posnick, Gareth McSorley, and Kuan Yong start off by discussing Android and
iPhone upload best practices and how to resume interrupted uploads. They conclude by
demonstrating the YouTube Direct embeddable iframe for soliciting uploads on existing web
pages.
How Google builds APIs - Google’s Zach Maier and Mark
Stahl discuss the foundations of Google’s API infrastructure, as well as a collection of
different issues that shaped how APIs exist today. In addition, Google’s Yaniv Inbar
demonstrates the new Java client library for Google APIs on Android, and Google’s Joey Schorr
offers a sneak peak at Google’s internal API-building tool.
Analyzing and monetizing your Android & iPhone
apps - Google’s Chrix Finne and Jim Kelm discuss how to build, launch, grow,
monetize, and manage your Android app using AdSense for Mobile Apps. In a quick demo, Jim
shows how to quicky implement Analytics in a mobile application.
We hope that you enjoy watching (or re-watching) these sessions as much as we
enjoyed preparing and presenting them. Videos and slides for all of the individual
presentations can be found on the pages linked above, but if you’d prefer to embark on an
API-watching marathon, you should check out our YouTube playlist
and watch away.
As always, it’s exciting to see the great and powerful
products that you’re building with Google’s suite of APIs. We look forward to coding and
innovating with you over the next year, and can’t wait to see you at I/O 2011!
