Google, along with its Drive for Work service for corporate users, also dropped some details on the Android for Work programme for
the enterprises.
It has been understood that Android for Work will
arrive as a part of the upcoming Android L OS, and will offer new APIs
to developers, apart from letting users manage their personal data and
apps separately from their work data and apps, all inside one single
Android device.
"As a user,
you can have one experience, and both your personal applications and
your corporate applications can live on the same device. All your
personal data is isolated from your corporate stuff, and vice versa,"
stated Sunder Pichai, Senior Vice President at the Google I/O 2014 keynote event. Pichai
further explained that the developers would not need to modify their
apps for the Android for Work APIs.
Google will release its Android for Work
certification programme this fall, promising improved security apart
from guaranteed updates. Samsung's native security software, Knox, will
also come as a part of Android for Work.
The Web search giant also
introduced its new 'Material Design' home screens for its Google Docs,
Sheets and Slides web pages. The Material Design language is a part of
the 'L Developer Preview' for Android.
Each of the three Google
pages show a bright coloured block at the top of the screen followed by a
grid of cards showing the documents which have been edited most
recently. One can also see a huge + symbol at the bottom right corner of
the screen in order to create a new document. The new home screens will
be rolling-out to users in the upcoming weeks.
The Google Drive
Google+ post
additionally mentions that users can now download the 'Office Editing
for Docs, Sheets, and Slides' extension
for Chrome to be able to edit files even in offline mode.
Google's
new native editing feature for Microsoft Office documents was also
unveiled at the keynote 2014 event. Drive for Works users can edit
Microsoft Office document without converting it into a Google Drive
document first. When the editing is done, the changes get saved in the
original file. Users can also make suggested edits to a document when
working collaboratively.
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