going google: an overview of google's mobile apps - 102817
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Going Google: An Overview of Google’s Mobile Apps Simple K12.com webinar - 10/28/17
Chris Casal Purveyor of Geekery, Scarsdale NY @mr_casal about.me/mrcasal
this will be iOS centric…
Google vs Apple
They may hate each other in public...
...But as far as I can tell they play quite nicely on my iPad...
The apps80+
Some iPhone specific
will run on iPad
Some obscure
Home Service Ads - San Francisco area only, similar to Angie’s List
MyGlass - for use with a Glass device
http://www.google.com/mobile
The apps
http://www.google.com/mobile/ios/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/google-inc/id281956209
Google’s iOS Apps
Google’s iOS Apps • 89 iPhone • 65 iPad
• lots of overlap • lots of things you wont use
My Google Apps
Caveat
De Mobo slides
demobo.com/slides
not Google
connects to Slides to use as remote
I’ve had mixed results
My Go-To Google AppsDrive & Chrome
live on my Dock for constant use
Google Voice
iPhone app installed on my iPad for communication
Google Earth - it’s just awesome
Wikipedia integration for location info
Google Translate - not perfect but a great aid & tool for teaching language, grammar, etc
Drive
View your entire “Drive”
Drive
View your entire “Drive”
Drive
View your entire “Drive”
Create & edit Documents & Spreadsheets
View & share all files
Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Drive launches the individual file-type
apps
Create & edit Documents, Spreadsheets
& Presentations
View, edit & share all files
“Recent tabs” menu
See what tabs you have opened on other
devices you are signed in to Chrome on...
Chrome
Send & recieve texts from iOS app (voice dial on iPhone too)
Voice
http://google-earth.en.softonic.com/iphone/video/google-earth-google-earth-for-ios-demo-4446
Earth
http://google-earth.en.softonic.com/iphone/video/google-earth-google-earth-for-ios-demo-4446
Earth
Translate
Disclaimer: Google isn’t “the best at translating” but its helpful & a great reference (ie: ESL purposes)
Translate between many languages...
... a lot of audio translation available too
Translate
Disclaimer: Google isn’t “the best at translating” but its helpful & a great reference for ESL purposes
Keeps a record of recent translations and allows for “favorites” via
the Starred function
The Basic GoogleGoogle
search engine
site viewer
essentially a browser without an address bar
GMail
mail app
keep iOS Mail account & GMail account separate
open links in other Google apps - ie: Chrome
Photos
New
Uploads and stores photos in almost native quality
fee for full resolution
Useful for backing up Camera Roll
admittedly I haven’t used it much…
Social Google
Google+
Getting better as a platform
Communities are great learning resources
Hangouts
Fantastic tool for taking “Skyping” to the next level
Conference calls
Record calls
Summary
Google is smart enough to not alienate it’s users
So is Apple
While the two companies may not play nice, Google’s apps work just as well in iOS as they do anywhere else
No need to forgo one for the other, use both to maximize value & potential of each platform
Summary
Google’s full list of mobile apps
google.com/mobile
Google’s apps listed on iTunes
itunes.apple.com/us/developer/google-inc/
No Google apps for Windows, just use browser-based versions
Christopher M. Casal Purveyor of Geekery
Heathcote School, Scarsdale NY Twitter: @mr_casal Graphite: mrcasal
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