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Google I/O Live

And, of course, last week was Google I/O. The Developer Show team was on site, broadcasting live from all over Shoreline Amphitheatre. Check out the playlist for Keynote recaps, exclusive guest interviews, and playtime in the interactive Sandboxes. If you weren’t able to attend I/O in-person, this is the next best thing. The link is g.co/io/guide.

Google I/O Sessions

Most of the sessions were recorded and are available at g.co/io/videos.

Now for some of the announcements…

ML Kit

With ML Kit for Firebase, you can use machine learning to build compelling features, on Android and iOS, regardless of your machine learning expertise. It’s production-ready for common use cases like text recognition and barcode scanning, allows you to deploy your own custom models, and integrates with other Firebase products. It’s now available in beta. Take a look at the post for screenshots and to get started.

Android Studio 3.2 Canary

Android Studio 3.2 is available in the canary channel and includes features that support the Android P Developer Preview, the new Android App Bundle, and Android Jetpack. Extensive screenshots and details are on the post.

Android Things 1.0

Android Things is Google’s managed OS that enables you to build and maintain Internet of Things devices at scale. Version 1.0 is now available with long-term support for production devices. The update also comes with support for new System-on-Modules, secure software updates, and a new console interface to configure hardware peripherals. Resources are linked from the post.

Wear OS by Google

Developer preview 2 of Wear OS by Google is now available with support for Actions on Google and power-related enhancements including a new battery saver mode.

Actions on Google

The Actions on Google team is making it even easier for you to get started with the Google Assistant, drive engagement, and create rich, immersive experiences. Recent updates include the ability to extend your Android app to the Assistant in more ways, seamless digital content subscriptions from Google Play, and fully customizable visuals for display surfaces. Check out the post for much more detail.

Google Photos

The new Google Photos partner program gives you the tools and APIs to build photo and video experiences in your products that are smarter, faster, and more helpful. More details and a link to the developer preview are on the post.

Flutter Beta 3

Flutter is our mobile app SDK for creating high-quality, native user experiences on iOS and Android. The third beta release is now available with new features that complete core scenarios. Check out the post for details on customer adoption, roadmap to release, and links to get started.

What’s new

As usual, there were a bunch of “What’s new” sessions and posts from Google I/O. Here’s a quick round-up:

Android

What’s new in Android covers all the updates across development, distribution, and engagement.

Google Play Console

What’s new in Google Play Console includes details on Android App Bundle, Dynamic Delivery, and improvements to help you understand and fix quality issues in your app or game.

Android P Beta

What’s new in Android P Beta covers Adaptive Battery, App Actions, Slices, and more

The Web

The state of the web touches on Service Worker, Progressive Web Apps, WebAssembly, Lighthouse, and more.

What’s new in Firebase at I/O 2018

…and What’s new in Firebase details ML Kit, Performance Monitoring, analytics, access management controls, and Test Lab.

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Google at ICLR 2018

The 6th International Conference on Learning Representations is in Canada this week. It’s a conference focused on how we can learn meaningful and useful representations of data for machine learning. We’ve got over 130 researchers attending — but don’t worry if you can’t make it. You can learn more about the research we’re presenting with the links on this post.

Variable substitution in Stackdriver alerting notifications

You can now include variables in the documentation section of your alerting policies for Google Stackdriver. The contents of this field are also now included in Slack and webhook notifications, in addition to email. Take a look at the post for a screenshot and example markup.

Kubernetes Service Catalog and Google Cloud Platform Service Broker

To make it easier to connect to Google Cloud Platform services from either a GCP-hosted or an on-prem Kubernetes cluster, we are releasing Kubernetes Service Catalog (a collection of services available to Kubernetes running on GCP) and the Google Cloud Platform Service Broker (a hosted service that connects to a variety of GCP services). A screenshot and link to the docs are on the post.

Cloud-native managed database improvements

We recently announced several cloud database improvements including commit timestamps for Cloud Spanner, availability of Cloud Bigtable replication in beta, and availability of Cloud Memorystore for Redis in beta. More details are on the post.

Introducing Partner Interconnect, a fast, economical onramp to GCP

Partner Interconnect provides high-bandwidth connectivity to the nearest Google Cloud Platform region through our many partners. Like Dedicated Interconnect, Partner Interconnect offers private connectivity to GCP to organizations that don’t require the full ten giga-bits-per-second of a dedicated circuit. It also allows organizations whose data centers are geographically distant from a Google Cloud region or Point of Presence to connect to GCP, using our partners’ connections. You can learn more on the post.

Registration for the Associate Cloud Engineer beta exam is now open

The Associate Cloud Engineer certification beta exam is now open for registration. This certification identifies you as someone who has the foundational skills necessary to use Google Cloud Console to deploy applications, monitor operations, and manage enterprise solutions. A link to register is on the post.

Google I/O Next Week!

Next week is Google I/O and The Developer Show team will be on site, broadcasting live from the Shoreline Amphitheatre. Tune in for the pre-show performance, the Keynotes, special guest interviews, playtime in the Sandbox, summaries of our favorite sessions and so much more.