The Developer Show — TL;DR 058
Highlights: Android Wear 2.0, TensorFlow for Android Things, and Android Things Developer Preview 2
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Android Wear 2.0 is here!
We recently released the final SDK for Android Wear 2.0. This release has added support for new hardware features, Material Design for Android Wear, Watch Face Complications, and more.
Android Things Developer Preview 2
We also released Developer Preview 2 for Android Things bringing new features and bug fixes to the platform. A summary of changes and links to code are on the post…
TensorFlow for Android Things
…where you’ll also find a really cool sample that shows how to use TensorFlow on Android Things devices using an early-access TensorFlow inference library prebuilt for ARM and x86. It demonstrates accessing the camera, performing object recognition and image classification, and speaking out the results using text-to-speech.
Announcing TensorFlow Fold
TensorFlow Fold makes it easy to implement deep-learning models that operate over data of varying size and structure. It also brings the benefits of batching to such models, resulting in a speedup of more than 10x on CPU, and more than 100x on GPU, over alternative implementations. Links to the paper and github, are on the post.
Google Cloud Endpoints now GA
Google Cloud Endpoints is a fast, scalable API gateway and is now generally available. It features a server-local proxy and is built on the same services that Google uses to power its own APIs. More details and links to get started are on the post.