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TL;DR 096 — January 26, 2018

CSS Paint API

CSS Paint API (also known as “CSS Custom Paint” or “Houdini’s paint worklet”) allows you to programmatically generate an image whenever a CSS property expects an image. It’s also about to be enabled by default in Chrome Stable. To learn more about what it is and what you can do with it, head on over to the post.

Flutter plugin

Version 21 of the Flutter plugin is now available and includes the new Flutter Inspector. The inspector works in IntelliJ and Android Studio and makes it much easier to understand why your application is rendering the way it does. For more details on this release, head on over to the post.

Google Play Games Services

The Google Play Games Services C++ SDK, version 3.0, is now available. Highlights include bug fixes for the Nearby API, refinements in the Snapshots API and more. Links to the SDK and samples are on the post.

OpenCensus

OpenCensus is the open source version of Google’s Census library, based on years of optimization experience. It’s a vendor neutral, single distribution of libraries that automatically collects traces and metrics from your app, displays them locally, and sends them to analysis tools. Head over to the post for screenshots and links to code.

Universal App campaigns

Universal App campaigns make it easy for you to reach users and grow your app business at scale. It uses Google’s machine learning technology to help find the customers that matter most to you, based on your business goals — across Google Play, Google.com, YouTube and the millions of sites and apps in the Display Network. Today, we’re launching a new interactive education program for Universal App Campaigns. The link to the course is on the post.