By Scott Knaster, Google Code
Blog EditorDid you participate in
Google I/O last week?
Nearly
1
million people did, by attending in person in San Francisco, gathering at dozens of
I/O Extended events around the
world, or watching the
live streamed keynotes and
sessions on YouTube.
Google I/O pushed an enormous amount of
information out into the world. Here on this blog, we did our part by publishing
many posts
about new Google announcements, along with a bunch of
guest
posts written by developers. Because there were so many posts last week, I figured
you might have missed some, so I want to highlight a couple of them here.
In this post, Cameron Henneke
writes
about his experience developing
GQueues Mobile, a task manager
app. Cameron discusses the trade-offs developers have to think about when coding for mobile
platforms. Should you
develop
in HTML or go native? What are the advantages to each? How will that choice affect
development? What do your users really want? Cameron’s post contains a thorough and candid
discussion of his decision-making process.
Another post describes a
versatile new technology called
near field communication
(NFC) and how
doubleTwist
uses it to share information from one Android device to another. NFC provides a
super-low overhead way for two devices to exchange a small amount of data, and doubleTwist’s
post not only demonstrates a practical use of NFC in an app, but also provides a lot of sample
code to show how they did it.
Finally, I was pretty busy during Google
I/O and I didn’t get to see all the sessions I wanted. Luckily, it’s not too late for anybody
to experience more of I/O by watching session videos on YouTube. For my weekend nerd fun, I
plan to grab some popcorn and
go here. When it’s time
to take a break, I can even rock out with
Jane's
Addiction on the After Hours video. Party!
