Google uploaded a new video about using Apps Script and Android. Arun Nagarajan from the Apps Script team and Adam Koch from Android discuss:
Tag: Apps Script
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Google’s Crash Course On Apps Script ScriptDb [Video]
Google has uploaded a new Google Apps Script “Crash Course” video to its Developers YouTube channel. The video takes a “deep dive” into ScriptDb (a JavaScript object store built into Apps Script), shows examples, and discusses best practices for organizing data.
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Google Talks About The Latest On Apps Script
Google has uploaded this thirty-minute discussion about Apps Script, which may be of interest to some of you developers. In it, the company talks about the recently launched Google Analytics Apps Script automation.
Google also answers questions about Charts Dashboards and other topics, and discusses the upcoming Apps Script hackathon in Austin.
There will be another Apps Script Office Hours session on 9/6 at 4:30 PM Eastern.
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Google Analytics Gets New Apps Script Automation
Google announced today that it has released a new Google Analytics feature, that enables data from GA to be put into any Apps Script-supported product more easily. That includes Google Docs, Sites and Spreadsheets.
“Many people have been asking for a simple way to put Google Analytics data into a Google Spreadsheet,” says Google engineer Nick Mihailovski. “Once the data is inside a Google Spreadsheet, users can easily manipulate Google Analytics data, create new visualizations, and build internal dashboards.”
Here, you can see what Google Analytics data accessed via Apps Script, and displayed in a Google Spreadsheet might look like:
“We know that a popular use case of this integration will be to create dashboards that automatically update,” writes Mihailovski. “To make this easy to do, we’ve added a script to the Spreadsheets script gallery that handles all this work – no code required. The script is called Google Analytics Report Automation (Magic).”
He provides the following video demo of how to use the script to build a dashboard:
You can find the Google Analytics Apps Script documentation here. And here’s a tutorial for automated access to Google Analytics data in Google Spreadsheets.
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Google Story Time Presents Apps Script Made Easy
Google has already covered how to build apps with their newest cloud platform, Google Drive. What about their old standby – Apps Script? Google hasn’t forgotten and dedicated a lengthy session to those who want to get the most out of the platform for building powerful Web apps.
Yesterday, Google announced some changes to Apps Script that will makes things easier for developers. The major change is that Google Drive has been integrated into Apps Script to provide an easy workspace to create apps from a Web browser that can be shared among colleagues for collaborative programming.
Before you get to the programming, however, you’re going to want to know how to make apps in Apps Script. That’s where the below Google I/O session comes in. It talks about all the exciting changes that have just been launching in Apps Script and how they make developing easier than ever.
Google is really hoping to push Apps Script harder than ever before in the upcoming year. Their success, however, is measured by how many new developers take advantage of Google’s Apps Script service to publisher new Web apps. The above video is Google convincing you to build apps with all the awesome new features available to you.
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Google Apps Script Goes For A Drive
Google Apps Script is one of the more interesting projects over at Google. It has the potential to totally rethink how people build applications for the Web and over the Cloud. At Google I/O, the company announced some new features to push it further towards its potential.
The big announcement is the launch of a new Web site just for Apps Script developers. It’s been a long time coming and now developers can get all the information they need on the latest and greatest developments in Apps Script from easy to acces location.
Google is also utilizing Drive for Apps Script. Developers can now create Apps Script projects right from Google Drive and share them between friends and colleagues over the Cloud. It’s a great new way to get people collaborating on Apps Script projects between offices or even countries.
So what if you’re new to Apps Script or just aren’t very good with the tools that Google provides yet? For those developers, Google has launched Html Services, a great way to help developers create apps using HTML, client-side JavaScript and CSS. Once you’ve finished making your app, you’re going to need a place to store it – that’s where ScriptDb comes in. The new services makes it so that developers no longer have to save Apps Script data in spreadsheets anymore, but can rather save large volumes of data behind easily accessed data stores.
A final gesture of goodwill comes in the form of new publishing options. Those who create Web apps using Apps Script can publish them directly to the Chrome Web Store. There’s even a new option in the Publish menu that takes care of registration and packaging for your app.
In a Google I/O that’s been filled with crazy spherical music players and skydiving antics, it’s easy to forget about the developers. It’s good to see that Google hasn’t lost sight of what I/O is all about and stuff like this just further cements their efforts to be best friends with developers.