Highlights: Android Nougat 7.1.2 Sneak Peek, Indonesia Games Contest, and open-sourcing Google Earth Enterprise

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TL;DR 056 — February 3rd 2017

Android Nougat 7.1.2

The next maintenance release for Android Nougat is just around the corner and the public beta is now available to eligible devices that have enrolled in the Android Beta Program. For more info and to sign up, head on over to the post.

Engaging users during major events

The Guardian was able to substantially increase user engagement with its mobile app during the recent US election by using new notifications functionality in Android 7.0 Nougat. The engagement results were impressive, including a 103% increase in daily installs during election week. Check out how they did it on the post.

Indonesia Games Contest

In our continuous quest to discover, nurture growth, and showcase the best games from Indonesia, we are happy to announce the Indonesia Games Contest. Submit your game by March 19th of this year. Details are on the post.

Open-Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise

We are open-sourcing Google Earth Enterprise, the enterprise product that allows developers to build and host their own private maps and 3D globes. Google Earth Enterprise Fusion, Server, and Portable Server source code will be published on GitHub under the Apache2 license in March.

Facilitating the discovery of public datasets

We’ve recently published new guidelines to help data providers describe their datasets in a structured way, enabling Google and others to link this structured metadata with information describing locations, scientific publications, or even Knowledge Graph, facilitating data discovery for others. We hope that this metadata will help us improve the discovery and reuse of public datasets on the Web for everybody. If you’re a data provider, data consumer, or developer, please check out this post.

Customize your Firebase Test Lab Robo tests

The Firebase Test Lab team is kicking off 2017 with some new features that make it easier for you to customize the testing of your Android apps. Check out the post for details on enhancements that are designed to save you time and money, so you can get the most out of Test Lab for your daily testing routine.

Eclipse plugin for App Engine

We recently launched the beta version of Cloud Tools for Eclipse, a plugin that extends Eclipse to Google Cloud Platform. Based on Google Cloud SDK, the initial feature set targets App Engine standard environment, including support for creating applications, running and debugging them inside the IDE with the Eclipse Web Tools Platform tooling, and deploying them to production. To get started, check out the post