Google docs via browser and a native app

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1. Collaborative content creation, sharing, & publication with concurrent editing in real time Web App: Hands On 1
2. Web Apps Hands On: Google Drive 2 Google Drive: Using Google docs in the a Web browser ¨  Collaboratively create, edit, share, & publish ¨  Docs, spreadsheets, and presentations, forms, tables, drawings and more ¨  Free software delivered as a service via web ¨  No installation needed. Offline use is possible ¨  Entire experience delivered via the browser ¨  Web delivery enables faster innovation
3. Google Docs: Documents 3 Google Drive: Using Google docs in the a Web browser ¨  We will focus on using the document portion of Google Docs ¨  Similar instructions will apply to the spreadsheet, presentations and other types
4. Use Google Docs: Create, share, collaborate and publish 4 Google Docs: Create Share Collaborate Publish ¨  Create a Google account ¨  Create a new document, save, rename a document ¨  Upload an existing document ¨  Basic editing, collaborating and sharing a document ¨  Real time concurrent editing a document ¨  Revise and add comments to a document ¨  Publishing a document ¨  Copying a document
5. Creating a Google Account 5 Signing up ¨  Sign up for Gmail to access Google Docs ¨  Gmail also gets you access to a lot of other Google features ¨  Viewing docs is possible without a Google account via an invitation ¨  Editing a doc need a Google account
6. Signing up creates a cloud identity 6 Identity ¨  Cloud services need to identify the user ¨  Identity ensures stateless client apps ¨  State is preserved in the cloud
7. State is preserved in the cloud 7 State Preservation ¨  Your computer, your browser and the app in your browser do not need state to be persistent ¨  Google cloud servers maintain and manage state for every user ¨  Users can hop from machine to machine without losing any work
8. Concurrent real time editing 8 Real time collaboration ¨  Split the class into two groups (Red and Blue) ¨  Pair up with a buddy from the other group ¨  Group Red: Create a doc and share with buddy ¨  Group Blue: Accept the sharing invitation from buddy ¨  Open your docs for editing and start typing ¨  Edits from your buddy appear in your doc!
9. Google Docs Limitations 9 Limits ¨  Share doc with up to 200 users ¨  50 users can edit a document at the same time ¨  After reaching this limit, others will just be able to view, not edit the document Limitations: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2494827?hl=en
10. Web apps 10 Web app + Cloud server ¨  Web apps run within your browser ¤  Consists of HTML/CSS/JavaScript ¨  Cloud servers track your keystrokes ¨  JavaScript and CSS code in cloud app reflects buddy edits into your page
11. 11 Thank you.