The Developer Show 015 — Awards Season and Coffee with a Googler

Jump to the tl;dr below for just the updates and links.

This week on The Developer Show, join us for an “award worthy” behind-the-scenes chat with Laurence Moroney on the set of Coffee with a Googler. Find out about which guests Laurence is hoping to one day get some coffee with, and share your own suggestions with him too!

Episode 015 — February 26th, 2016

tl;dr

Just the updates and links

Web

• Go beyond just JavaScript APIs, frameworks, and the mysteries of CSS to also learn the tooling that can mean the difference between an average web developer and a super-productive web developer. Check out recently launched Web Tooling & Automation course on Udacity to learn about setting up your editor, creating powerful build scripts, live editing, linting and all other sorts of awesome optimizations
• It’s now a lot easier to retrieve data about an authenticated user’s connections from their Contacts by using the new People API.
• It’s time to update to HTTP/2 as Chrome will no longer support SPDY starting on May 15th which is the anniversary of the HTTP/2 RFC.
• Starting in version 49, Chrome for Android will surface Physical Web content, helping an even larger audience discover URLs relevant to their surroundings via Eddystone bluetooth low-energy beacons. Which makes now a great time to check out what the Physical Web can do for your users.

Android & iOS

• Use Google to rapidly build backend services for your mobile app that scale automatically to meet demand, automatically synchronize data across devices, handle the offline case gracefully, and send notifications and messages.
• Learn how Hydro Coach rapidly reached 22 new markets in this new blog post on monetization tips straight from successful app developers. It’s a great companion to the The No-nonsense Guide to App Monetization we recently mentioned on this show.
• Make more money from your app with in app payments. This video on the Zen of monetization with Ido Green shows you how.
• Need an awesome functional UI testing framework for iOS? Well, we just open sourced the one we use for YouTube, Google Calendar, Google Photos, Google Translate, and Google Play Music. Check out the blog post for more details and the GitHub link.

Open Source

• The Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with a mentor open source organization on a three month programming project during their break from university. If you’d like to be a mentor organization, follow the link and submit an application.

IoT

• If you’re a university researcher working on the Internet of Things, we invite you to participate in this Technology Research Award Pilot. It provides selected researchers with in-kind gifts of Google IoT related technologies, with the goal of fostering collaboration on small-scale experiments and discovering what you can do with our software and devices. As usual, the blog post has a lot more detail.