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LoWPAN on Android Things
Android Things Developer Preview 6.1 has API support for configuring and managing Low-power Wireless Personal Area Network including first-class networking support for Thread. These types of connectivity solutions enable Android Things devices to perform edge computing tasks, aggregating data locally from nearby devices to make critical decisions without a constant connection to cloud services. Links to get started are on the post.
Flutter plugin v20
The M20 release of the Flutter plugin for Android Studio and IntelliJ is now available! Fixes and improvements are listed on the post.
OAuth whitelisting for GCP services and data
Our OAuth API access controls now let you control access to GCP resources in addition to your users’ G Suite data. Details and screenshots are on the post.
Cloud ML Engine
To help you do more with ML, we’ve adjusted our prices for Cloud Machine Learning Engine and added new features including Python and TensorFlow updates. More details are on the post.
Video Intelligence and Natural Language Updates
We’ve also been expanding our portfolio of pre-trained machine learning models to offer more intuitive features. Cloud Video Intelligence, our machine learning API that analyzes video content, is generally available and now offers video transcription. Cloud Natural Language Content Classification, our latest feature, which automatically classifies content into over 700 categories, is now generally available and has added additional samples in seven programming languages.
Core ML support in TensorFlow Lite
You can now deploy TensorFlow models with Core ML on iOS. Links to the documentation and the Core ML converter are on the post.
Hangouts Meet now available in the Google Calendar API
Hangouts Meet is now accessible through the Google Calendar API to read conference data associated with events, copy conference data from one event to another, and request new conference generation for an event. Example code is on the post.
MechaHamster for iOS
We built an iOS game with Firebase and the Unity Project is open source. Take a look at the post to learn more about the Firebase Unity SDK and how it’s used in MechaHamster.
Diagnose and understand GPU behavior with GAPID
The Graphics API Debugger is a new tool that helps you diagnose rendering and performance issues with your applications. With it, you can capture a trace of your application and step through each graphics command one-by-one. Take a look at the post for screenshots and the download link.
S2 Library: Geometry on the Sphere
The S2 library is the core geometric library on which Google’s global geographic database is built and now it’s open source. Take a look at the post for a description and the GitHub link.