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Check out the <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/gallery/cgj9d39gphiephlq0e2899dv6j4?cfem=1">photos.</a></p> 150c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h4>September 2013</h4> 151c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:soham.mondal@gmail.com">GDG Blrdroid</a> held a <a href="http://www.meetup.com/blrdroid/events/140665852/">meetup</a> on performance optimisation.</p> 152c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:baileye@gmail.com">GDG Dublin</a> held their meetup with a talk on AdMob for Android and iOS, entitled “Admob for Android and iOS developers”. </p> 153c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p>GDG Mbale’s <a href="mailto:nsubugahassan@gmail.com">Hassan Nsubuga</a> has been managing a university <a href="https://plus.google.com/103735976334615631393/posts/gQMWCGUhMBn">course session</a> since September. They are now through with the basics and have a firm foundation, so this month they will be doing a lot of advanced stuff including exploring the latest API enhancements with KitKat. </p> 154c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:wojtek.kalicinski@gmail.com">GDG Warsaw</a> held an Android Barcamp focused on App Quality. The discussion was moderated by GDG organisers, but the talks were given by the community members, including some top Android companies and developers in Poland.</p> 155c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h4>October 2013</h4> 156c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:benjamin.r.m.weiss@gmail.com">GDG Berlin Android</a> held their <a href="https://berlin.ticketbud.com/devfest-berlin-2013">DevFest</a>.</p> 157c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:soham.mondal@gmail.com">GDG Blrdroid</a> held their <a href="http://www.meetup.com/blrdroid/events/144457162/">meetup</a> in collaboration with GDG Bangalore, where they talked about a wider range of things from incorporating user feedback to effectively using the cell radio. David McLaughlin from the Developer Relations team also visited during the meetup and delivered the keynote. They also hit a milestone with its 4th anniversary on the 9th of October and crossed 4300 members in the past few days so its been a memorable couple of months for them.</p> 158c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:hir3npatel@gmail.com">GDG Cape Town</a> held an <a href="https://plus.google.com/108309780217630451504/posts/9BTCEqnBHoQ">Android Workshop</a> where they gave away lots of branded KitKats.</p> 159c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:baileye@gmail.com">GDG Dublin</a> held its DevFest, which featured a codeLab on Android titled “Codelab: Intro to Android Development.”</p> 160c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:hugo@dutchaug.org">GDG Dutch Android User Group</a> held their <a href="http://www.devfest.nl/program">DevFest</a>. They had a bunch of Android sessions, mostly by local speakers. In addition to the Android sessions, they also ran a workshop on writing custom views.</p> 161c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:hugo@dutchaug.org">Hugo Visser</a> from the Dutch Android User Group spoke at <a href="https://bitbucket.org/qbusict/cupboard">DroidCon UK barcamp</a>, where he delivered a talk on Cupboard, a simple and lightweight persistence framework, specifically for Android.</p> 162c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:prajyotmainkar@gmail.com">GDG GAUG</a> held the <a href="https://plus.google.com/110448195989468248957/posts/8doJuCpySWS">Google Devfest 2013</a>, where they had two tracks and more than 200 delegates attending. They also had a <a href="https://plus.google.com/110448195989468248957/posts/6rxLzj2Rpde">Hackathon</a> and they hit the <a href="https://plus.google.com/110448195989468248957">1000 member</a> mark this month, which makes them the second largest android community in India after GDG Blrdroid. </p> 163c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:cyrilleguipie@gmail.com">GDG Miage</a> held their DevFest where they gave a talk about Intents and Services. The also held a startup Weekend Bootcamp where they talked about Activites and Layouts. They will also hold an Android Workshop in December.</p> 164c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:gabriel.kb@gmail.com">GDG Uruguay</a> had their <a href="http://gdg.uy/devfest2013">DevFest</a>, where they held an Android workshop for beginners as an Android vs iOS comparison, a session on best practices using YouTube APIs in Android, and What's new in Google for developers (with a special section about Android). You can see pictures on <a href="https://plus.google.com/114520966453242230657/posts/dqZAuMqc12Z">the G+ page</a>. </p> 165c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 166c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h4>November 2013</h4> 167c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:yorogoule@gmail.com">Abidjandroid/GDG Côte d'Ivoire</a> held an Android Launch Party featuring the KitKat release.</p> 168c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p>The <a href="mailto:hugo@dutchaug.org">Dutch Android User Group</a> had a very interactive presentation on Android Code Puzzlers and Tips & tricks, where they rewarded participation by giving out books, tshirts, jelly beans and kitkats. The presentation was at the <a href="http://www.nljug.org/jfall">Dutch JFall conference</a>, organized by the NLJUG. It's a large yearly Java conference and the DAUG had the only Android session there.</p> 169c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p>The <a href="mailto:benjamin.r.m.weiss@gmail.com">GDG Berlin Android</a> meetup this month featured the KitKat release.</p> 170c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:soham.mondal@gmail.com">The GDG Blrdroid</a> <a href="http://www.meetup.com/blrdroid/events/148210762/%20">meetup</a> was another focused on KitKat.</p> 171c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p>At the <a href="mailto:amahdy7@gmail.com">GDG Cairo</a> <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/co59j0870in5a4kh8n5navifnm8">DevFest</a> there was a "What's new in Android SDK" session on day 1, and an Android workshop on day 2. Kitkat also provided interest in the sessions and the snacks bar. The KitKat <a href="http://buff.ly/HNE7yq">presentation</a>, the track organization, and everything related to it were all organized by women.</p> 172c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:hir3npatel@gmail.com">GDG Cape Town</a> held an Android Workshop.</p> 173c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:alessandro.gbridge@gmail.com">GDG Udine</a> organized a talk after the release of KitKat for a school in Pordenone.</p> 174c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:hugo@dutchaug.org">Hugo Visser</a> from Droidcon Netherlands organized an Android hackathon themed "Location, Location, Location". </p> 175c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:eyal.lezmy@gmail.com">Paris Android User Group</a> welcomed <a href="https://plus.google.com/+RomainGuy">Romain Guy</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/+ChetHaase">Chet Haase</a> to their meetup this month. They’ll be meeting up with other GDG leads and UG managers meet at <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cupo201fjreo9g9t2e596gv8nd4">Devoxx</a> next Thursday.</p> 176c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:wojtek.kalicinski@gmail.com">GDG Warsaw</a> had over 250 attendees at their DevFest, which featured session tracks on Android and Web and a whole day of Code Labs in Android, AngularJS and Arduino.</p> 177c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h4>December 2013</h4> 178c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:prajyotmainkar@gmail.com">GDG GAUG</a> are planning a codelab and hackathon.</p> 179c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:psvensson@gmail.com">Peter Svensson</a> spoke at <a href="http://swdc.se/droidcon/events/stockholm-2013/">DroidCon Stockholm</a></p> 180c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott MainThe unstoppable <a href="mailto:bonbhel@gmail.com">Max Bonbhel</a> from the African GDG Android is hosting AAC 2014 and Android GDG Barcamp events in December. Also, in order to encourage African Java developers to move to the Android platform, he created the <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtFPan-z2ps-dHBtX1luY2pRQjdtRjliUGcxMVBNeVE&usp=sharing#gid=0">Africa Android Training (AAT) program</a>. The training material targets developers with different levels of experience in Java development. More than 60 developers have been taking part in the weekly sessions. The next 10 sessions will start Saturday, November 9, 2013. 260 GDG and Java User Group members have already registered from 12 Countries. 181c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p> </p> 182c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main</div> 183c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 184c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<div class="col-8" style="margin-right:0"> 185c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h3>Android Community Experts</h3> 186c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 187c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h4>October 2013</h4> 188c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:eyal.lezmy@gmail.com">Eyal Lezmy</a> presented two sessions. “<a href="http://bit.ly/andbigfail">Play Store bashing, learn from the biggest fails</a>” looked at several applications, mainly developed by huge companies, and analyzed why they failed to satisfy the users or the Android guidelines. “<a href="http://bit.ly/lifeofapp">Android, the life of your app</a>” tells a story, living the life of a user, identify the frustrations he can encounter and present ways to avoid it, as a developer.</p> 189c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:mariux01@gmail.com">Mario Viviani</a> presented and recorded the next <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaT0bYhhaGY">Android App Clinic - Italia</a>. This episode was regarding the Cards UI and SMS app support in Android 4.4. They experimented with a short form of the video (10 minutes instead of 20) and in less than day it got almost 400+ views -- which is great considering it's in Italian! The previous episode reached 1300 views all-time and was the most successful video of GDL Italia in Q2.</p> 190c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:m.kaeppler@gmail.com">Matthias Käppler</a> contributed the <a href="https://github.com/Netflix/RxJava/tree/master/rxjava-contrib/rxjava-android">first Android specific component</a> to the RxJava project, and spoke about <a href="http://uk.droidcon.com/2013/sessions/conquering-concurrency-bringing-the-reactive-extensions-to-the-android-platform/">RxJava and reactive programming on Android</a> at DroidCon UK. He has also open sourced <a href="https://github.com/mttkay/memento">Memento</a>, an Android annotation processor to replace the deprecated onRetainNonConfigurationInstance.</p> 191c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><a href="mailto:wojtek.kalicinski@gmail.com">Wojtek Kaliciński</a>’s talk, "Android - is it time for a break yet?" highlights not only what's new in Android 4.4 KitKat, but also how to take your app to the next level by making sure you provide the best app experience possible to all 4.0+ users.</p> 192c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<a href="https://plus.sandbox.google.com/110448195989468248957/posts"><img src="/images/community/hackathon-gdgaug.jpg" alt="" align="right"></a> 193c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 194c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main</div> 195c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 196c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h2 id="Content" style="clear:left">New Content</h2> 197c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<div class="col-8" style="margin-left:0"> 198c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><h4>Android 4.4 What's New</h4> 199c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott MainKitKat has been optimized to run on a much broader range of devices, with special focus on the millions of entry-level devices that have as little as 512MB RAM. To help, we've created new APIs, better tools, and better documentation to let you create apps that perform well on all devices.<br> 200c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott MainCheck out this video summary of some of the most significant developer features in the latest Android release, including new ways to make your apps beautiful, NFC Host Card Emulation, a printing framework, the storage access framework, low-power step detector and step counter sensors, and more!<br> 201c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sONcojECWXs&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> 202c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></h5> 203c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<i>Be sure to get the <a href="http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.4.html">full Android 4.4 API Overview</a>, and take a look at our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">related DevBytes videos</a></i></p> 204c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 205c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><h4>WebView in Android 4.4</h4> 206c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott MainAndroid 4.4 (API level 19) introduces a new version of WebView that is based on Chromium. This change upgrades WebView performance and standards support for HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript to match the latest web browsers. Any apps using WebView will inherit these upgrades when running on Android 4.4 and higher. 207c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/migrating.html">API Guide</a></h5> 208c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main</p> 209c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 210c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><h4>Android 4.4 Immersive Mode</h4> 211c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott MainWith Android 4.4 KitKat, your apps can now truly go full-screen with a new Immersive Mode. Immersive Mode lets your apps hide the system's status and navigation bars while capturing all touch events—ideal for rich interactive content such as books and games. This video demonstrates how to use the new API, in addition to recapping earlier full-screen APIs on Android. 212c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBi8fjv90E4&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> 213c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></h5> 214c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://developer.android.com/samples/ImmersiveMode/index.html">Sample</a></h5> 215c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main</p> 216c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 217c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p> 218c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h4>Android 4.4 Storage Access Framework - Provider</h4> 219c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott MainGet up to speed on the new document storage API in Android 4.4 KitKat. This video gets you up and running with your own DocumentProvider by stepping you through the making of a simple cloud storage app. 220c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxHVeXbK1P4&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> 221c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></h5> 222c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/document-provider.html">Training</a></h5> 223c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://developer.android.com/samples/StorageProvider/index.html">Sample</a>, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.box.android">Box Application</a></h5> 224c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main</blockquote> 225c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 226c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main</p> 227c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 228c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 229c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><h4>Android 4.4 Storage Access Framework - Client</h4> 230c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott MainGet up to speed on the new storage access framework in Android 4.4 KitKat. This video teaches you how to quickly create, edit, save and delete documents provided by other apps as a client of the storage access framework. 231c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFj9AEz0DHQ&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> 232c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></h5> 233c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://developer.android.com/samples/StorageClient/index.html">Sample</a></h5> 234c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main</p> 235c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 236c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><h4>Android 4.4 Closed Captioning</h4> 237c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott MainDisplaying closed captions in your app's videos can be quick and simple in Android 4.4 KitKat,. Learn how to attach timed text tracks to VideoView and allow users to customize how captions are displayed. 238c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCRGc2PcmB8&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> 239c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a> 240c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main</p> 241c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main</h5> 242c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main</div> 243c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 244c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<div class="col-8" style="margin-right:0"> 245c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 246c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p> 247c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h4>Android 4.4 Transitions</h4> 248c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott MainIn this episode, we introduce the new Transitions API in Android 4.4 Kitkat. This API provides a simple way for developers to provide animated segues to different scenes of their application, helping users to understand the application flow with very little code. The general approach is to tell the system that you'd like to run a transition animation, then make the necessary changes to your UI. The system figures out the differences and animates the changes. 249c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3H7nJ4QaD8&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K&index=3">Video</a></h5> 250c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></p> 251c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main</h5> 252c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><h4>Android 4.4: SMS APIs</h4> 253c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott MainAndroid 4.4 KitKat introduces the new SMS APIs as well as the new concept of a default SMS app. This video discusses these new APIs and how your app should use them to send and receive SMS and MMS messages.<br> 254c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdq0R2WQssQ&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> 255c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></h5> 256c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<i>See also -<br> 257c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<a href="http://goo.gl/sw5NdH">Android Developer Blog post on Android 4.4 KitKat SMS APIs</a><br> 258c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<a href="http://goo.gl/7vTx3s">Android Protip on using booleans in your AndroidManifest.xml</a></i></p> 259c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 260c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 261c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><h4>Android 4.4 Printing API</h4> 262c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott MainIn this video, we introduce the new Printing API in Android 4.4 KitKat. This API provides a simple way for developers to print to cloud-connected printers using Google Cloud Print. It's really easy to print bitmaps, and HTML (that you generate on the device, or just web content).<br> 263c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iub67ic87KI&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> 264c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></h5> 265c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<h5><a href="http://developer.android.com/training/printing/index.html">Training</a></h5> 266c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<i>Some pro-tips:</i> 267c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<ul> 268c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main <li>For Webview/HTML printing, printing from javascript is not supported yet (window.print() for example). Also we are planning to address the limitations around WebView/HTML printing in future releases (eg: headers/footers, and specifying print ranges).</li> 269c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<li>We encourage developers to open Android Open Source bugs for features that they feel important as a feedback.</li> 270c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main</ul> 271c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main 272c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott Main<p><h4>App Indexing</h4> 273c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott MainIn this episode we discuss the new App Indexing feature that we recently announced for Google Search for Android.<br> 274c45eebe1868deb93c54c29885163a13a497eb86aScott MainCurrently, when you do a google search on the web, you get results that are links to websites. 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