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Google on Friday announced a new series of developer outreach videos called "Route 85," which looks to facilitate expanded use of Google's iOS SDKs in third-party app creations.
In a short ad on the official Google Developers YouTube channel, uploaded in tandem with a post on the group's Google+ page, developer advocate Todd Kerpelman gives a brief rundown of what viewers can expect from the upcoming show.
"We have a whole bunch of crazy smart engineers that are building dozens of apps for iOS devices," Kerpelman says. "And we have SDKs available for everything from Maps, to analytics, to games that you could use to power your own apps."
As detailed in the video, Google is planning to use the show to inform developers about new libraries released for iOS, as well as tips from Google engineers on creating Google-powered apps.
Google has built a number of high performance developer tools for iOS, but is not considered an "iOS company" because it created and successfully marketed rival mobile OS Android. Still, the Internet search giant is looking for ways to hop on Apple's platform beyond its own in-house initiatives like the recently updated Google search app for iOS.
Route 85 is set to debut soon on the Google Developers' YouTube channel.
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Apple should just reject these apps made with this Google garbage. And they need to reject apps that don't follow Apple's UI guidelines. All that Google Material crap is making iOS apps look like Android apps.
[quote name="Brakken" url="/t/183877/googles-new-web-series-route-85-aims-to-help-developers-make-ios-apps-using-google-sdks#post_2651322"]Now that Apple is considering using Bing, Google has begun to panic, and for the first time since 2007, has decided to pool its resources and work toward a common goal: survival. This appears to be yet another nail in the coffin of Google and Android, the building of the coffin precipitated by Schmidt's rip-off of the iOS concept, earning Jobs', and all of Apple's, eternal ire. Lacking some miracle, or a noteworthy apology, Android may end up being yet just another service that Google drops suddenly and for no apparent reason, probably selling it for a huge loss to Lenovo. In the coming years, we look forward to seeing how Google may address the security, upgradability, fragmentation and inefficiency issues of Android. But with potential falling profits with Apple opting for Google's competitors' services, it may be a hill too steep to climb. Google was a great search company in the early 2000's, but that was a long time ago. Good luck, Google![/quote] You're delusional.
That video is hilarious!!!! Lol