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Posted by Lucia Fedorova, Tech Lead, Google Calendar API
At Google we like to make 10x rather than 10% improvements. In this spirit, we are increasing the default quota for the Calendar API v3 by a factor of ten, to 1 million requests per day. That means your application can support ten times as many users without any need to apply for more quota.
And if you need even more free quota, you can apply for it in the developer console under APIs -> Calendar API -> Quota -> “Apply for higher quota.” We have also streamlined the process of quota handling to make sure you receive your quota as quickly as possible.
A few tips to work efficiently with your quota:
A few weeks ago, we published our first significant update to the material design guidelines. Today, we’re addressing even more of the comments and suggestions you’ve provided with another major update to the spec. Check out some of the highlights below.
In addition to these major new features and sections, there’s even more in today’s update, including:
Stay tuned for even more updates as we continue to integrate the relevant developer docs, refine existing spec sections, and expand the spec to cover more ground. And as always, remember to leave your suggestions on Google+!
<script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "FoodEstablishmentReservation", "reservationNumber": "WTA1EK", "reservationStatus": "http://schema.org/Confirmed", . . . information about dining customer . . . "reservationFor": { "@type": "FoodEstablishment", "name": "Charlie’s Cafe", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway", "addressLocality": "Mountain View", "addressRegion": "CA", "postalCode": "94043", "addressCountry": "United States" }, "telephone": "+1 650 253 0000" }, "startTime": "2015-01-01T19:30:00-07:00", "partySize": "2" } </script>
Our digital lives are increasingly connected. We research on our laptops, look up directions on our phones and even navigate with our watches. And by creating maps unique to each user and offering features such as saved places, Google Maps has been making it easier to continue these tasks as we move from device to device.
However, although maps embedded from Google Maps are now built uniquely for every Google user, most of the now two million active sites and apps using the Maps APIs are still islands. When I look for a place to eat on Zagat, I can’t see how far away it is from work. When I look at a travel map in the New York Times, I can’t save those places in order to navigate to them later.
Today we’re taking a step towards connecting these two million sites and apps by introducing a signed-in JavaScript Maps API experience and a feature called attributed save. To help illustrate, we’ve partnered with the New York Times to bring this experience to their 36 hours travel column.
When you add &signed_in=true to the Google Maps JavaScript API source url, your end users will have the option to sign into the map with their Google account. When they do so, your users will receive a map built for them, in the context of your app. Their saved places — including home and work addresses (if set by the end user) as well as other relevant places — will appear automatically on their map, providing a layer of context that anchors your content and makes it stand out even more.
Once users are signed into the Google Maps in your app, we can together create an integrated experience between your map content and Google Maps. With attributed save, signed-in users can save places from your app to be accessed later, with attribution and linkbacks, on Google Maps for the web, Android and iOS.
What’s more, you can also enable deep links into your mobile applications. For instance, users can save a place from your desktop app (such as Zagat.com), open up the place on Google Maps on their Android device, and deep link directly into your Android app.
Enabling attributed save is easy — just specify your app name, a link and a place search string or place ID when creating a marker and info window. Or use our SaveWidget to enable attributed save in your own custom info window.
In addition, we’re also launching attributed save across all embedded maps today. Attribution and linkback parameter will be inferred automatically from the domain and referrer of the host site, so if you’re using our embedded maps, you don’t need to do anything! If you’re using the Google Maps Embed API, you may customize the source and link back parameters yourself.
One final point: we’ve stated in the past that the JavaScript Maps API is cookieless if loaded from maps.googleapis.com. As of today, to enable the signed in maps experience on sites across the web, the signed-in version of the JavaScript Maps API now does rely on cookies to detect the end user’s signed-in state. Please review our documentation for further details.
That’s all for now. Go try it out. And remember, no map is an island, entire of itself...
After previewing it earlier this summer, today the Google Fit APIs are fully available on Android, Android Wear and the web so that you can build and publish apps for users on Google Play. Head to developers.google.com/fit to learn more.
The Google Fit platform gives the user one place to keep all their fitness activities. With the user’s permission, any developer can store or read the user’s data from Google Fit and use it to build powerful and useful fitness experiences for their users.
For users, we’re also launching the Google Fit app on Google Play for smartphones, tablets, Wear, and on the web at google.com/fit. The Google Fit app provides users with effortless, all-day activity tracking, as well as displaying key fitness data that our partners have stored in the platform. This app will also provide an opportunity for users to discover apps that help them track their fitness goals using Google Fit.
To get a quick introduction to the Fit APIs, check out the Dev Byte videos below.
A number of partners from around the fitness industry have been hard at work preparing their apps for Google Fit. In the coming weeks, our previously-announced launch partners, Nike+ Running, Withings HealthMate, Runkeeper, Runtastic, and Noom Coach, will launch their Google Fit integrations. We’re also happy to announce 6 new Google Fit partners: Strava, MapMyRun, LynxFit, LifeSum, FatSecret, and Azumio. These new partners are also preparing great experiences that will launch soon.
Please join the Google Fit Developer Community to share ideas and get inspired. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Posted by Angana Ghosh, Product Manager, Google Fit
