Google announces Google Code Labs

Keeping in view the ever rising growth of  Google developer’s program, Google on 3rd March, announced the launch of Google Code Labs.

Google Code Labs is intended to be a home for developer and their products which are in their early stages of development. Google hopes that all of their valuable developer products mature and get huge success. Having said, one should keep in mind the very true fact that every single product ma not reach that goal. The Labs program provides engineering teams and the developer community a chance to explore ideas and get involved early.

With the launch of Google Code Labs, several well known and widely used APIs and tools are the first set of Google Code Labs to get graduated. App Engine, Maps API, Earth API, Calendar Data API, YouTube APIs are just a few among many to get graduated.

For these graduates, Google have planned of  increasing their commitment with published deprecation policies and other critical support services. The Visualization API terms, Contacts Data API terms, and Picasa Web Albums Data API terms are a few good examples of transparent deprecation policies. They state that we’ll support each version for at least 3 years from when it’s deprecated or a newer version is introduced. We’re working to get policies posted for the other graduates as well, though the time period may vary a bit from product to product. It will be 3 years for most, but it might be less for some. The AdWords API, for example, has a policy of supporting old versions for 4 months.

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