Developer Show 001 — Zombies, BBQ, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation
What’s happened with Google developer platforms recently? In brief, this. Watch the video for more.
Android
- There’s a new Fingerprint API sample available to help you authenticate to remote servers.
- The Play Games Services toolset has a new feature that will help you balance your virtual economy so you can earn more with in game purchases.
- Get started with Android and Android studio …and Zombies with a new video from some of your favorite Android play actors, shot at YouTube Space in LA.
- The Big Android BBQ happened last week in Texas. Learn more about improving Android performance and more with videos from the BBQ on the Android Developers Channel now.
Internet of Things
- The Brillo and Weave invite program is now taking requests to access code, documentation, and the developer console.
Training
- An Android Developer immersive training course will be offered beginning in January 2016 as part of a partnership between General Assembly and Google Developers.
- There are now courses for Developing Apps for Android Wear, Google Cast, Android TV, and Android Auto.
- The Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree has launched on Udacity — it helps you learn what it takes to design, validate, prototype, monetize, and market apps and grow them into a scalable business.
Web
- Dramatically improve the performance of your web pages with the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project. This and similar presentations were given at the SFHTML5 meetup last week and are now available to watch on their YouTube channel.
- Check out the Chrome dev summit schedule and speakers, now live on the event site.