The Developer Show — TL;DR 096
The Developer Show is where you can stay up to date on all the latest Google Developer news, straight from the experts.
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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.
The Developer Show — TL;DR 095
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!
Actions on Google
Actions on Google has a new directory, more device availability, and more control of your home with smart home control. Details and links are on the post.
PageSpeed Insights
PageSpeed Insights provides information about how well a page adheres to a set of best practices. And it now uses data from the Chrome User Experience Report to make better recommendations for you and the optimization score has been tuned to be more aligned with the real-world data.
Apps Script
There are three new tools to help further improve your workflows and manage Apps Script projects: the Apps Script dashboard, Apps Script API, and Apps Script Command Line Interface. Screenshots and more are on the post.
The Google Brain Team
The Google Brain team works to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence with research and systems engineering, as one part of the overall Google AI effort. Check out these two posts (part 1, part 2) for some highlights of their work in 2017 including some of the basic research work, updates on open source software, datasets, new hardware for machine learning, healthcare, robotics, and more.
Unit Tests for Docker Images
The Container Structure Test framework provides a convenient and powerful way to verify the contents and structure of your containers. We’ve been using this framework at Google to test all of our team’s released containers for over a year now, and we’re excited to finally share it with you. You can get started with the details on the post.
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