GDG Ekiti State University

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The Google Nigeria team is planning an event in the coming weeks that will focus on demoing the best of Google across devices, with an emphasis on mobile. The target audience consists of the media/journalists, mobile/telco partners, policy makers, content creators, SMB enablers, educators, social influencers and users.  The theme for this event is “ Educate & Inspire ”. As usual we would like to feature content from interested Nigerian developers at this event. This is a great opportunity to gain exposure from a key audience for your apps and solutions. We are looking for apps that meet the following criteria: Must be locally developed Must utilize Google devices,  APIs or platforms in a way that is central to the app and obvious to the user. Examples of APIs or platforms include: Android, Android Wear, Chrome Cast, Google TV, Google Cloud Platform, Chromebooks, Google glass, Google+, Drive, Maps etc Incorporates user interface and user experience best practices

 Join us for our first event as we show what you can with the combination of Google technologies and some 3D software as you become an expert... Tagged:    GIS and Google Technologies .  Event Description:  This is a training directed towards equipping the students of the department of Geography and planning science with skills necessary to stand toe-to-toe with other geographers in the world. Skills to be learnt include:  Google Earth and its applications Google mapmaker Sketch-ups (for 3-D modelling of buildings and structures) Programming in GIS/ Basic Introduction to programming (Python) To be part of this event click on "I'm going" on the  event page  or copy and paste the following URL on your browser: http://bit.ly/giseksu

By Nadya Direkova, Staff Designer and Design Evangelist at Google[x] At Google and throughout the industry, we all agree that two things matter: design and speed. But how can we do great design quickly? For our teams, one of our most important tools is the design sprint. While a typical product design process takes months or years, a design sprint compresses this into a week or less. The design sprint combines key design and research methods and focuses on a single challenge or multiple challenges in parallel. It brings all the stakeholders—designers, developers, product managers, and other decision makers—into one place to work together on a short deadline. It often leads to insights and solutions more quickly than anyone thought possible. At Google, we've been using design sprints for over four years, from external projects like Ads, Glass and Project Loon to our internal tools. One team has even run a huge sprint with 175 participants in 23 teams. How did that feel? As Cordel

By Angana Ghosh, Product Manager, Google Fit At Google I/O we announced Google Fit: an open platform for developers to more easily build fitness apps. Today we’re making a preview SDK available to developers so that you can start to build. Google Fit provides a single set of APIs for apps and device manufacturers to store and access activity data from fitness apps and sensors on Android and other devices (like wearables, heart rate monitors or connected scales). This means that with the user’s permission, you can get access to the user’s fitness history -- enabling you to provide more interesting features in your app like personalized coaching, better insights, fitness recommendations and more. There are three sets of APIs designed to meet specific developer needs: Sensors API provides high-level access to sensors from the device and wearables—so with one API your app can talk to sensors, whether on an Android device or a wearable. So if you’re making a running app, you could r

Are you a non- programmer, a programmer, an intending programmer or technology enthusiast with a passion to learn how to create applications or improve your skills, enter into competitions organised by Google OR even learn a new programming language from scratch (with a team stimulating you to do that which is impossible). GDG Ekiti State University is the Solution!!! GDG Ekiti State University is a newly formed group which is supported by Google whose aim is to build a growing/ developing ecosystem of developers within the Ekiti State University campus. What Do I Stand To gain: Free Training and Seminars Exposure to a wealth of opportunities Improve your current skills Free Training Resources Follow-up on Progress Learn from scratch till you are good enough to enter for competitions Attend Hackathons and Bootcamp and win cool prizes employment and internship opportunities (a secured future) Interact and learn with Local and International Programmers, etc. How Do I Become A Member