Highlights: Google Maps Web Service APIs, Native Ads Growing Revenue, Native Ads, Chrome 54 Beta, Cross-origin Service Workers, Google Cloud Platform, IoT Prototyping Kit

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Making the most of the Google Maps Web Service APIs

The Google Maps API team maintains client libraries that give you the power to develop with the confidence that your app will scale smoothly. We provide client libraries for Python, Java, Go, and now Node.js! For the links and some highlights of how these libraries can help you; head on over to the post.

Native Ads Helped SmartApps India Grow Revenue 55%

Native Ads helped SmartApps India grow revenue by 55%. To learn how, take a look at the post.

Everything you Need to Know About Native Ads

…and for more details on Native Ads, check out this article on ‘everything you need to know.’

Chrome 54 Beta

Chrome 54 Beta includes Custom Elements V1, BroadcastChannel, and media platform improvements. Details and links are on the post.

Cross-origin Service Workers

Service workers give you the ability to respond to network requests made by your web applications, allowing them to continue working even while offline. But they’ve historically been tied to a specific origin. But what about foreign fetch? Here is a fun article experimenting with this.

Google Cloud Platform features that can save you time and money

The Google Cloud Platform has launched a bunch of new products and features recently. To help you sort through them, here’s a post highlighting six specific features that were designed specifically to help save you time and money.

Prototyping kit gets your IoT app on Google Cloud Platform, fast

We teamed up with Seeed Studio and Beagleboard to bring you the BeagleBone Green Wireless IoT Developer prototyping kit for the Google Cloud Platform. With it, you can get your IoT project talking to the Cloud quickly. More details are on the post.

Highlights: Android 7.0 Nougat, Direct Boot, Launchpad Accelerator, AdWords, Chrome 56, Google Cloud Platform, HTTPS

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Security enhancements in Nougat

Now that Nougat has begun to roll out, it’s a good time to review the many security enhancements included. Check out the post for info on Direct Boot and encryption, media stack and platform hardening, App security improvements, and more.

Google Developers Launchpad Accelerator

We’re now taking applications for the third class of the Launchpad Accelerator. If you’re a late-stage app startup from Brazil, India, Indonesia, or Mexico — check out this post. Applications are open until October 24th for the equity-free program that begins in January and includes two weeks of all-expense-paid training at the new Google Developers Launchpad Space in San Francisco.

Track your goals with campaign groups and performance targets

If you’re about to launch a new holiday campaign, you could, for example, use TrueView ads on YouTube along with banner ads on the Google Display Network to drive brand awareness and more holiday sales. To make it easier for you to track and forecast the performance of these campaigns against your advertising goals, we’re introducing campaign groups and performance targets. More info and a screenshot are on the post.

Moving Towards a More Secure Web

Beginning with Chrome 56 in January of 2017, we’ll mark HTTP sites that transmit passwords or credit cards as non-secure, as part of a long-term plan to mark all HTTP sites as non-secure. HTTPS is easier and cheaper than ever before. Check the post for details on our upcoming change as well as setup guides to help you get started with HTTPS.

Running Powershell on Google Cloud SDK

Cloud Tools for PowerShell is a collection of “command-lets” for accessing and manipulating GCP resources. It’s currently in beta and already allows access to Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud SQL and Google Cloud DNS — with more to come! For more info on how to get started, check out the post.

Web serving on Google Cloud Platform: an overview

If you’ve been considering moving your web serving infrastructure to the cloud, our recently published “Serving Websites Guide” is for you. It covers static websites, virtual machines, containers, and managed platforms. For each, the guide provides information about scalability, load balancing, DevOps, logging and monitoring, and more.