If you're a developer trying to create apps and services on Google's platforms and you live in a country with intermittent Internet connection, it can become quite a challenge. Before you can finish running a code lab or even trying to learn the ropes, you're already hindered by bandwidth issues. But now the tech giant is giving developers the chance to access resources offline by offering a pilot kit.
The pilot kit contains the I/O Dev Bytes Series, a YouTube series that teaches you coding basics, including the latest Android 5.0 Lollipop. It also has full videos of the Google Udacity course, including Android, App Engine, HTML5 games, UX and Mobile Web modules. The whole Android website is also in the kit, as well as Material Design docs, Web Fundamentals, Google Cloud Platform docs and all Android, Cloud and Design videos from the YouTube channel of Google Developers.
So basically, everything you need to know and work with developing apps and services is there in several CDs which you can use even if you don't have Internet. This is great news for those developers who are living in developing countries where Internet access is always a problem, which has prevented them from fully taking advantage of all these Google resources. Or even if they have Internet, the slow bandwidth makes it twice as long to even just watch the video tutorials, let alone finish coding and trying it out.
Google says that so far, they have distributed 2,000 of these kits in the Sub-Saharan Africa, India and Bangladesh areas through their respective Google Developer Groups. If you feel like you need to have one of these kits, you can get in touch with a group near your area. They also have instructions you can follow if you're a school, tech hub or incubator.
SOURCE: Google