Google Developers

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Google Developers

Google developers are an initiative of Google Inc., an international company dealing with Internet-based products. They include platforms such as Android, Google Chrome, and App Engine, and products such as YouTube API, Maps API, and Google Calendar API. Their main aim is to develop existing technology and devise new ones based on technical content.

The developers enable users to add robust Google features to their devices such as maps, cloud messaging, sign-in, and mobile payments to enhance the app features. They also help in adding new revenue streams, tracking app utilization, and managing app distribution. Android is the most common example of Google developer. It is an operating system based on the Linux kernel specially designed for touch screen gadgets such as smart phones and tablets (Yang, 2011).

Google developer apps such as My Class Schedule and ClassDojo are essential tools in the classroom. Students can use My Class Schedule to manage their busy school lives since the app informs them of upcoming classes and serves as a reminder for unfinished assignments, and scheduled examinations and tests. The app also has a timetable feature that gives details on the day’s or week’s schedule and activities. Other helpful features of the app include a grade overview that gives the average grades of the students, and a feature to mute the phone automatically when in class. Thus, the app helps a student keep track of all relevant class matters even when away from school (Mayer, 2013).

ClassDojo app is beneficial to teachers since they can monitor the behavior of their students in the class. The app captures data on behavior and teachers can use it to improve the behavior since they can share the information with administrators and parents. Parents also monitor their child behavior in class by liaising with the teacher via email or parent code on the app. In addition, teachers can also give real-time feedback to students because the app is linked to the ClassDojo website.

References

Mayer, S. (2013). My Class Schedule: Timetable. Google. Retrieved on 19 Nov. 2013 from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.rakuun.MyClassSchedule.free&hl=en

Yang, S. (2011). How to use the Application object of Android. Intridea Inc. Retrieved on 19 Nov. 2013 from http://www.intridea.com/blog/2011/5/24/how-to-use-application-object-of-android