Android, Mobility

Introduction to Android Auto

Android Auto was announced on June 25, 2014, at Google I/O 2014. The Android Auto mobile app was released on March 19, 2015. It is a part of the Open Automotive Alliance(OAA), which was announced on January 6, 2014, and is a joint effort with 28 automobile manufacturers and mobile tech supplier Nvidia. Hyundai became the first...

by Shalini Prajesh
Tag: Google
30-Oct-2015

Technology

What makes Modi Speeches such a Cult – An Analytical Perspective

One Simple Reason “Content that Connects with Target Audience” Speaking to 20000 people, knowing that over a billion would be tuned in, is a tough act. For Mr. Modi it is a cakewalk. He seems to outdo himself time and time again. Here is some proof of evidence to back it up. In the world of marketing there is a common saying...

by Gaurav Misra
Tag: Google
01-Oct-2015

Technology

Why We Love YouTube (And You Should, Too!)

YouTube, as the name says, have become a search engine on its own even for those people who are not highly tech-savvy. In almost all cases, every person has seen some videos on YouTube. Yes, people love YouTube but the major question remains “Why?” What makes it so popular among people on the web or mobile? Why is this popular...

by Panchi Baruah
Tag: Google
22-Sep-2015

Technology

10 Ultimate Ways to Optimize Your Videos on YouTube

  YouTube being the second-largest search engine, it owns the most videos shared and watched within social networks like Facebook and Twitter. YouTube has over 4 billion videos being viewed every single day and has 60 hours of video being uploaded every minute. When it comes to the video market, YouTube is the biggest giant! A...

by Vritika Shrivastava
Tag: Google
29-Jul-2015

Grails

Generate PDF for Google Charts through Javascript

In a previous blog, we learned, how to draw a google chart. Let's say, I have 5 graphs on my page and I want to generate a PDF which contains these graphs using a JavaScript. For that, we will use jsPDF plugin. Step 1. Create a hidden empty DIV, to store graph-images: [java] <div id='graph-images'...

by Mansi Arora
Tag: Google
03-Mar-2015

Android

Background Location Updates on Android

In my previous blog, I mentioned my first task about removing the AlarmManager/LocationManager approach we were using and replace it with new Location APIs that were announced at Google I/O last year. Note: If you are unaware about using Google location api in the foreground, Please firstly read the previous blog. This method was...

by Himanshu Singh
Tag: Google
24-Jul-2014

Technology

gofmt: Formatting the go code

When i started working on golang, some interesting things came out related to formatting. Till now we used to use IDE formatting and indentation with combos like "ctrl+shift+f" or something else, so!! what if your machine could take care of all the formatting issues? and what if it not only works at file level but also at...

by Sahil Chitkara
Tag: Google
10-Jul-2014

Technology

Go! Go! Go! :Intro to emerging “GoLang”

Go is an open source programming language initially developed by GOOGLE .When we say about key features,they are a good mixture of multiple languages like statically-typed language with syntax loosely derived from C, type safety, garbage collection, dynamic typing and contains large standard library. Through go,  Google desires to...

by Sahil Chitkara
Tag: Google
07-Jul-2014

Grails

Reading Google Drive Spreadsheet in Grails Application

OAuth is a secure mechanism to access google drive. In order to access google drive in your application you need to register your application at the google API console at Google API Console. Read the blog  Integrating Google plus in grails application by Vishal Sahu to see how to get client ID, client secret and redirect URL but in order...

by paridhi
Tag: Google
13-May-2013

Grails

Integrating Google plus in grails application

In my current project, i needed to integrate Google+ in the application using server-side API. Google uses OAuth2.0 protocol for authorization when our application tries to access the data. All we require is an access token to fetch data from Google using REST calls which serves data in JSON format. I implemented it using Web Server...

by Vishal Sahu
Tag: Google
06-Dec-2011

Grails, Technology

What is Google Web Optimization, How to use or apply it in your project?

Recently as part of POC, I need to apply the Google web optimizer on various parts of the page to determine which content user clicked to best and will be most effective in getting conversions. For this you need to keep track of the various conversions, but how? That's where Google web optimizer come handy, providing reports based on...

by Tarun Pareek
Tag: Google
12-Aug-2010