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Google Developer Day

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Google Developer Day
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Frequencyannually
Organized byorganized by Google
Websitewww.google.com/events/developerday
Google Developer Day 2008 in Taiwan

Google Developer Day events were one-day web developer-focused gatherings around the world held annually by Google. They include seminars and codelabs focused on building of web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, HTML5, Chrome, App Engine, Google Web Toolkit and give participants a chance to learn about Google developer products and meet Google engineers.

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Aims

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Developer Days are a marketing technique used by Google to launch new products and introduce customers to innovations often presenting these in the form of games. It also seeks to encourage the participation of software developers and to attract developers who can improve web applications. A stated company goal is to "cultivate a better relationship with programmers, particularly those on the cutting edge of mashup development, a relatively new style of application development that combines information from different Web sites."[10] Such developer programs are becoming a common feature of how companies promote Web applications and are used by Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, and Yahoo. In fact, Yahoo was a pioneer in the introduction developer days with its Hack Day in autumn 2006.

History

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  • 2007: The first Developer Day event took place in Sydney, Australia, followed by nine other international locations. It provided talks and demonstrations for Gears, Web toolkit, Geo, Mapplets together with a YouTube API session writeup.[11]
  • 2008: Google unveiled its HTC Android phone. It also included presentations on Chrome, AJAX and the Web Toolkit and demos for various applications such as Gears.[12]
  • 2011: The largest per-country GDD took place in China: within a month, 3 GDD events took place, in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, with more than 3,000 developer attendees.
  • 2014: Google showcases its smart watch at its annual Development Day in San Francisco.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Google Developers". Google Developers.
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  3. ^ "Google Developers". Google Developers '09.
  4. ^ "Google Developer Day 2010".
  5. ^ "Google Developer Day 2011".
  6. ^ "2016 Google Developer Day - Beijing". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021.
  7. ^ "Google Developer Day".
  8. ^ "Google Developer Days China 2018".
  9. ^ "Google Developer Days China 2019".
  10. ^ Martin LaMonica. "Why Google loves developers - CNET". News.cnet.com. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  11. ^ "Google Developers Blog". Google Developers Blog. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
  12. ^ "BBC - Backstage.bbc.co.uk blog: Google Developer Day, Wembley Stadium".
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