--- title: "The Developer Show — TL;DR 122" description: "The Google Developer Show, episode 122. Topics include Android P final preview update, New in Chrome 68, New Dialogflow features, Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud, and Cloud Next 2018." doc_version: "1.0" last_updated: "2018-08-09" canonical: "https://timothyjordan.com/blog/2018/08/09/DevShow-122.html" --- # The Developer Show — TL;DR 122 _Published August 9, 2018_ > The Google Developer Show, episode 122. Topics include Android P final preview update, New in Chrome 68, New Dialogflow features, Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud, and Cloud Next 2018. --- The Developer Show is where you can stay up to date on all the latest Google Developer news, straight from the experts. Have a question? Use #AskDevShow to let us know!
TL;DR 122 — August 2nd, 2018
#### [Android P final preview update](https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/07/final-preview-update-official-android-p.html?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog) Android P Beta 4 is now available. It’s the final preview update before we launch the official Android P platform later this summer and includes a release candidate build with final system behaviors and the official Android P APIs. [Head on over to the post](https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/07/final-preview-update-official-android-p.html?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog) to wrap up your testing in time for the official release. #### [New in Chrome 68](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/07/nic68?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog) Chrome 68 is now available and includes several updates for developers including add to Home Screen changes, the Page Lifecycle API, the Payment Handler API, and more. [Details are on the post](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/07/nic68?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog). #### [New Dialogflow features](https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/07/new-dialogflow-features-at-cloud-next.html?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog) Dialogflow recently introduced several new beta features to expand conversational capabilities for customer support and contact centers. [Head on over to the post](https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/07/new-dialogflow-features-at-cloud-next.html?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog) for details and screenshots of Knowledge Connectors, Automatic Spelling Correction, and Phone Gateway. #### [Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud](https://blog.golang.org/go-cloud?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog) The Go team at Google recently released a new open source project called Go Cloud. It’s a library and tools for developing on the open cloud to help you build portable cloud applications. [Take a look at the post](https://blog.golang.org/go-cloud?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog) for details of how it works and how to get involved. #### Cloud Next 2018 Google Cloud Next 2018 was last week in San Francisco, California. There were a ton of announcements. Here’s some highlights. - **[Cloud Build](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/accelerating-software-teams-with-cloud-build.html?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog)** is a fully-managed continuous integration and continuous delivery platform that lets you build and test applications in the cloud at scale. - We’re **[Connecting GitHub with Cloud Build](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/go-fast-safely-and-easily-with-cloud-build-and-github.html?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog)** to provide fast, frictionless, and convenient CI for any repository on GitHub. - **[Updates to our serverless compute stack](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/bringing-the-best-of-serverless-to-you.html?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog)** include new App Engine runtimes, Cloud Functions general availability, and serverless containers on Cloud Functions. - **[New database features](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/on-gcp-your-database-your-way.html?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog)** along with partnerships, beta news and other improvements can help you get the most out of your databases. - **[Transparent SLIs](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/transparent-slis-see-google-cloud-the-way-your-application-experiences-it.html?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog)**, or service level indicators, give you fine-grained detail about the behavior of Google Cloud Platform services as related to your workloads - …and **[BigQuery ML](https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/07/machine-learning-in-google-bigquery.html?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog)**, which is a new capability inside BigQuery that enables you to build and deploy machine learning models on massive structured or semi-structured datasets There was a lot more, but don’t worry if you couldn’t be at the event. Just head on over to the [Google Cloud YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTMRxtyHoE3LPcrl-kT4AQQ?utm_campaign=devshow_series__080218&utm_source=gdev&utm_medium=blog), linked in the description below, for all the keynote and session videos Like these updates? [Save the TL;DR Playlist](https://goo.gl/cHuQkL) and [Subscribe to the Google Developers Channel](http://goo.gl/mQyv5L). ## Sitemap See the [full sitemap](/sitemap.md) or the [blog index](/blog/index.md) for every page on the site.