Lynda - Google Play Services For Android (updated Jun 24, 2016)

The Google Play services SDK offers a comprehensive set of APIs that help Android developers integrate their apps with Google services. Learn how to add Location services, Google Sign-In, Google Places, Google Cloud Messaging (GCM), and AdMob to your apps. This course starts with a general overview of Google Play services—how it works and how to set up the SDK in your Android projects—and then offers instruction on a selection of individual services available via the SDK. Programming expert Joe Marini covers how to retrieve and work with a user's location and get continuous location updates with Location services; target and authenticate users and access their profile information with Google Sign-In; and work with the Google Drive API to store and retrieve content. Joe also shows you how to use the Google Places API to get information about places such as addresses, phone numbers, and website URLs, along with how to send messages to individual devices using Google Cloud Messaging. He wraps up by taking a quick look at AdMob and using ads in your Android apps. By the end of this course, you should be able to incorporate Google Play services into your own apps and take advantage of the various features it provides.




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