- Read more on the last post: google-io-2013-mobile-web-and-cloud-the-triple-crown-of-modern-applications/
- Slides: picturesque-app.appspot.com/slides
- Application: picturesque-app.appspot.com
- For all I/O 2013 sessions, go to https://developers.google.com/live
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Google I/O 2013 – Mobile, Web and Cloud – The Triple Crown of Modern Applications
Can we had a better title for our talk? I’m not sure… But the description was along the lines of “…Ready to rock the world with your next application? Odds are you are thinking about mobile, web and the cloud.” So far… so good.
In this session we talked about building a modern mobile web application that takes advantage of the Google Cloud Platform. We touch on the powerful combination of the “mobile web AND the cloud” and in the process we tried to show the power of Google cloud endpoints and modern HTML5 apis. We built a fun little mobile web app “Pictureque” that give you the options to take photos (even on airplanes) and then share them with the world. Continue reading
DevCon TLV 2012
In a nutshell, DevCon TLV was a great event! It’s getting better and bigger every year. There were lots of developers, friends and rock bands (a bit early in the morning – but great way to wake up quickly). This year all the talks were limited to 25min (with 5min of questions) where after lunch people had the options to choose ‘agile’ track as well. I’ve got to listen to some great talks and I hope we could see all of them online soon. This year my talk in DevCon TLV was “Big Data and HTML5“. This slides cover some of the main points of Google cloud products: Google Cloud Endpoints and Big Query. I wanted to give developers the option to see how they can combine modern web apps with cloud technologies that give a lot of power. The first product we covered is still in ‘trusted tester’ mode and it give the developer the option to build an API (in Google App Engine supported technologies: Java, Python and Go) that will work in minutes with all the scale of Google app engine. You can read more deeply about Google Cloud Endpoint and HTML5 or just have a look at this talk:
(*) This time the talk is in hebrew… I hope that soon I’ll have another version of it in english.
HTML5 Modern Web App and Google Cloud Endpoints (Part 2 Of 3)
Brad Abrams and I had a great time doing this session: “HTML5 and App Engine: The Epic Tag Team Take on Modern Web Apps at Scale” at Google I/O 2012. Here is a little walkthrough on ‘how to built it’ from zero to hero in less then 60 minutes.
- Slides: http://ido-green.appspot.com
- Code: https://github.com/greenido/backbone-bira
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9TG7OzsZqQ
Pre-reqs
User Experiences demands are pushing modern web apps to a more distributed architecture. A pattern many developers have used is using a MVC framework on the client and communicate to the server with REST. Google App Engine’s easy to build, easy to manage environment makes it ideal for REST APIs for Web backends. At Google IO 2012, we made it much easier to build REST APIs on App Engine with Cloud Endpoints.
Cloud Endpoints enables you to build REST and RPC APIs in App Engine. It leverages the same infrastructure Google uses for its own API and as such, you get strongly typed clients for Android, and IOS as well as a lightweight client for JavaScript which we will be walking through in this presentation.
In getting ready for IO, Ido and I thought we’d build a modern web application using Cloud Endpoints. We decided on a topic that would be relevant to both App Engine and the general web developer community, something we both have some interest in and something generally useful…. a Beer rating and review web application.
Try it out yourself at: http://birra-io2012.appspot.com/
Ido Green 