Developer Day Shows Google's Software Side
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Worldwide events showcase Google Gears, Mashup Editor, and other Google APIs to developers.
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Adobe has teamed with Google on a plug-in that interacts with Google 3D Warehouse.
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Internet search giant Google unveils software it hopes will power a variety of future mobile phone handsets.
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Reports suggest today that Google is testing a new version of Gmail.
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Google execs sidestep questions about Microsoft's Facebook deal and Google Phone to discuss Google Apps and wireless spectrum at Analyst Day.
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Google Inc. and NASA A
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Google will add a presentation application to Google Apps lineup by year-end.
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(InfoWorld) - Just ahead of this Thursday's Google Developer Day 2007 events, Google began offering on Tuesday a release candidate for Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.4, an upgrade to the company's framework for writing AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) applications in Java. Focused on improvements in speed and stability, version 1.4 features optimized output in which applications load faster. Developers can speed up existing Google Web Toolkit applications by recompiling with the 1.4 release candidate, which is downloadable here. The toolkit is intended to make it easier to write AJAX applications such as Google Maps and Gmail. No date has been set for the general release of version 1.4 "This is undoubtedly the biggest GWT release yet," said Bruce Johnson, a developer of the toolkit, in a blog. "In addition to 150-plus bug fixes, GWT 1.4 RC includes a ton of new features, improvements, and optimizations." An ImageBundle capability in version 1.4 creates a single composite image from many small ones, allowing for consolidation of HTTP requests. This improves application responsiveness, the company said. The composite image is permanently cacheable, which means users' time is not spent on bytes they already have, Google said. Version 1.4 also features an enhanced UI library with widgets that make it easier to build user interfaces. A RichText widget provides a simpler way to add sophisticated text-editing capabilities to applications while a SuggestBox widget offers auto-complete functionality that can be tailored to any need, Google said. HorizontalSplitPanel and VerticalSplitPanel capabilities enable resizing of portions of the user interface. Benchmarking functions in the toolkit integrate with the JUnit testing framework, so developers can record and compare the speed of code snippets across different parameters. Internationalization and localization support has been improved with NumberFormat and DateTimeFormat capabilities, which allow developers to parse and format numbers, dates, and times for users worldwide, Google said. The toolkit was launched a year ago and has been used to build products, such as Google Checkout, for online shipping. Google made the toolkit available in an open source format, via an Apache 2.0 license, later in 2006. The company noted that the creators of the toolkit, Johnson and Joel Webber, will speak at Google Developer Day 2007, in San Jose, Calif. on Thursday. Google Developer Day events also are being held in 10 locations around the world for users of Google APIs and developer tools. Places such as Sao Paolo, Brazil; London, and Paris also will host Google developer events on Thursday. Featured on the agenda are discussions on technologies such as Google AJAX APIs, the Google Maps, YouTube APIs, and mashups.
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What's in it for developers? Google invited developers to its London office for one of three workshops - the others being in Munich and Tel Aviv to spread the word and teach developers how to write for their new OS. Another event will be held in Boston on February 23rd (check at the blog for an announcement). Here's what they told us. The mantra for Android is that itâs "a complete and modern embedded OS, with a cutting edge mobile user experience, a world class software stack for building apps and open platform for developers users and industry". That of course breaks into lots of different specifics some of which are more solid than others. Computer people coming to mobile have a very different view of phone architecture to phone people adding features. Phone people see the phone functions - the GSM chipset, Bluetooth, DVB-H, for example, as a foundation, with drivers on top. Then there's an abstraction layer, an operating system, a user interface framework and the applications on top.â¦
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Borrowing a page from Sun's Java playbook, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once.
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It joins the battle for mobile users with Google.
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When users log onto Google Calendar from their Web-capable mobile phone, they see appointments with date, time, location and description.
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The software maker is in the midst of a major revamp to its search product. Over the coming weeks, the company will make more changes, including to the engine itself. Whether the changes add up to more eyeballs is an open question.
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A number of chip manufacturers are showing Google's Android software platform for mobile phones running on prototype or proof-of-concept phones at the Mobile World Congress.
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NEW YORK - A small software developer today plans to unveil a suite of applications - browser, camera, games and more - based on the new Google-endorsed operating system, Android.
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Plus: Google apps for your site, and HP's pretexting debacle.
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The company will fight the order to reveal its software code to rivals. Also: Startup wants Google to feel outdated & hellip;. Sony plasters Europe with Walkmans & hellip;. and more.