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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