Google Developer Day Japan on September 28 welcomed 1700 attendees across
Tokyo and a satellite location in Kyoto.
During our
keynote presentation, we shared updates and demos for each of our global priority areas:
Android, Chrome & HTML5 and Cloud Computing. To watch the keynote video, go to http://youtube.com/GoogleDevelopersJa
(keynote starts 5 minutes in, some parts will be in Japanese). Thanks to our Japanese
developer community, Japan is the 2nd largest global market for Android app uploads and App
Engine usage. We were happy to share that worldwide, Android is now at 200,000 activations per
day and App Engine is at 90,000 active developers per month. We announced an open source font
for Mac OS and support for the Japanese Transliteration API.
We also
welcomed over 30 Sandbox developers and hosted 22 technical sessions, with speakers from both
Google Mountain View and Google Tokyo. Two additional highlights at GDD Japan were the Android-based Android robot,
built by one of the Sandbox developers, and the Chrome
bento lunch box.
Coming up very soon are the rest of our
Developer Days, which will take place on:
Overall, we saw enormous demand for invitations to Google Developer Day. We do
wish we could invite more of you, and please stay in touch with us here on the Code blog and
your local developer blogs.
