The Developer Show 003 — Google Play Services 8.3, TensorFlow, Chrome 47

User identity has gotten a lot easier with the latest release of Google Play Services. We’ve revamped Sign-in to make implementation simpler and provide users a more streamlined experience. Other updates touch Smart Lock APIs, the Fused Location Provider, and App invites. Magnus joined us on the show to give us more details on the release.
More than 19 thousand organizations are now testing or using Android for Work which makes it easier and safer for employees to use their own Android devices for work.
Important bug and crash fixes are in place with the latest release of the Android Support Library, available now.
Find success for your app or game business with Google Play — this is the goal behind a new playlist of videos from our annual developer event, Playtime 2015.
The Android Dev Summit is just around the corner! If you can’t make it in person, remember to tune into the live stream November 23rd and 24th.

TensorFlow is Google’s latest machine learning system and it’s open source. Seriously, it’s awesome. I caught up with the technical lead on the project to talk about what it means for researchers and software engineers. Watch the show for more.

Also, the Chrome Dev Summit has wrapped and if you weren’t able to make it in person, that’s okay! All the sessions are available online.
Splash screens for web apps launched from the home screen on Android and script execution deferring are two big things launching with Chrome 47 on December 1st. Pete was on the show to tell us what we need to pay the most attention to for that launch.
Compound bindings as well as effective children and distributed node observers are the two significant features included in the latest release of Polymer.

The Google Maps API meetups and hackathons continue with the Europe version of ‘Code the Road’. You can sign up today to find out what’s possible with the Google Maps APIs.