Google Code News

Expanding the Chromium Security Rewards Program

12 hours 21 min ago
It’s hard for us to believe, but it’s been just over two years since we first announced the Chromium Security Rewards Program.We’ve been delighted with the program’s success...

Debugging KML Balloon Content in Google Earth

12 hours 40 min ago
KML Balloons in Google Earth - starting with version 5.0 - support HTML, CSS, and almost full JavaScript. This can be a great tool for developers looking to...

Share With Intents

Thu, 02/09/2012 - 22:20
[This post is by Alexander Lucas, an Android Developer Advocate bent on saving the world 5 minutes. —Tim Bray]Intents are awesome. They are my favorite feature of Android...

Google Code-in 2011 Stats to Ponder

Thu, 02/09/2012 - 03:00
For Google Code-in 2011 we had 542 pre-university students (ages 13-17) from 56 countries complete an astounding 3,054 tasks for 18 open source organizations during the eight week...

Charts, Gmail, Maps and Properties Services Graduating from Experimental

Thu, 02/09/2012 - 02:59
The Google Apps Script team strives to achieve a very high level of responsiveness to our community. We iterate fast to deliver new features and functionality. Releasing new...

The BugSense hybrid app: experiences using Clojure on Google App Engine

Wed, 02/08/2012 - 05:21
Today’s post comes to us from Jon Vlachogiannis and Panos Papadopoulos, founders of BugSense, a mobile error analytics service. We hope you find their insights on using Clojure...

isocket and Shiny Ads deliver new innovations using the DFP API

Wed, 02/08/2012 - 01:00
Editor’s note: We’d like to share with you this post from John Park about the growing DFP API ecosystem and a few success stories from our partner directory...

A deeper look at Chrome for Android

Wed, 02/08/2012 - 00:38
Today, we introduced Chrome for Android Beta, which brings Chrome’s capabilities to phones and tablets running Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. This is made possible by a range...

Announcing v201201 of the DFP API

Tue, 02/07/2012 - 06:00
The newest version of the API, v201201, brings some frequently requested features including using date time strings in PQL statements, filtering objects based on last modified date and...

Google+ Developers Page

Tue, 02/07/2012 - 01:03
Today we’re launching the Google+ Developers page to help you stay connected to all the latest Google+ platform news, events, community, and more. As the lead of the...

Google Summer of Code 2012 is on!

Sun, 02/05/2012 - 03:08
By Carol Smith, Open Source Team Cross-posted with the Google Open Source Blog Today at FOSDEM I was proud to announce Google Summer of Code 2012. This will...

Google Summer of Code 2012 is on!

Sat, 02/04/2012 - 23:37
I am proud to share the news that Google Summer of Code 2012 was announced this morning at FOSDEM.This will be the 8th year for Google Summer of...

Fab Friday: Autocompleting the week

Sat, 02/04/2012 - 07:38
It’s Fab Friday again! I missed last week, felled by a nasty cold. But you can’t keep Fab Friday down. Just back, I decided to roll out this...

Fridaygram: science education, simulating galaxies, spider webs

Sat, 02/04/2012 - 03:11
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog Editor Most software developers started getting interested in technology at an early age. With that in mind, Google Roots in Science and...

Android Security Update

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 03:31
Recently, there’s been a lot of news coverage of malware in the mobile space. Over on our Mobile blog, Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP of Android engineering, has posted Android...

New Social APIs in Android ICS

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 23:30
[This post is by Daniel Lehmann, Tech Lead on the Android Apps team. — Tim Bray][We’re trying something new; There’s a post over on Google+ where we’ll host...

Businesses: share Google Site Search query quota between multiple engines

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 23:21
Good news for Google Site Search owners who manage multiple Google Site Search engines! You can now share query quota between paid GSS and free Custom Search engines...

AdWords API: Retrieving large result sets

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 21:31
When you need to retrieve a large set of objects, such as a list of criteria for an account, it’s tempting to use one simple query with a...

Sahana and Students: Saving the world one task at a time

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 07:30
For the second year, the Sahana Software Foundation participated in Google Code-in (GCI), a program which gives pre-university students the chance to get involved in open source projects...

App Engine 1.6.2 Released

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 06:06
Some of you may think of dragons as ferocious, treasure-hoarding, fire-breathing monsters. But the App Engine team is embracing the dragon as a symbol of fortune and good...