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Poly API

We recently launched the Poly API to allow your application to dynamically search and download 3D assets at both edit-time and run-time. Check out the post for screenshots and getting started instructions.

AIY Vision Kit

The AIY Team just announced their next project: the AIY Vision Kit: an affordable, hackable, and intelligent camera. Much like the Voice Kit, our Vision Kit is easy to assemble and connects to a Raspberry Pi computer. You can get started with the post.

Actions On Google Best Practices

Apps for the Google Assistant are the gateway for users to engage with your services through Google Home, Android phones, iPhones, and in the future, through every experience where the Google Assistant is available. To help you learn the best practices for this platform, we launched a new YouTube series. A link to the playlist is on the post.

Android Things Dev Preview 6

The next release of Android Things Developer Preview 6 is here with a new IoT launcher, Graphics acceleration defaults, a command-line flashing tool, and more. Details are on the post.

Advanced Android Development

If you know the basics of building Android apps and want to delve deeper, take a look at our new Advanced Android Development course built by the Google Developers Training team.

Final preview of Android 8.1 now available

Starting today we’re rolling out the final update to the Android 8.1 developer preview before the official launch to consumers in December. Android 8.1 adds targeted enhancements to the Oreo platform, including optimizations for Android Go and a Neural Networks API to accelerate on-device machine intelligence. Check out the post for how to test your app with this update.

Google Kubernetes Engine

We recently eliminated the cluster management fee for Google Kubernetes Engine, our managed Kubernetes service. This makes Kubernetes Engine’s cluster management available at no charge, for any size cluster, effective immediately.

Folders in Cloud Resource Manager

Folders in Cloud Resource Manager is a powerful tool to organize and administer cloud resources, it gives you the flexibility to map resources to your organizational structure and enable more granular access control and configuration for those resources. And it’s now generally available. Take a look at the post for more details and a video.

Google at NIPS 2017

The 31st annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems happened this week. But don’t worry if you missed it, this post has links to the papers, workshops, demos, and more that we presented there.

Universal App campaigns

We’re rolling out HTML5 playable ads in Universal App campaigns — so your users can quickly spin a wheel, score a point or jump into level two, right from the ad. To learn more, check out the post.

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Moving Past GoogleApiClient

The primary change in the latest release of the Google Play Services SDK is the introduction of new Task and GoogleApi based APIs to replace the GoogleApiClient access pattern. Check out the post for a summary and code to get started with the new pattern.

Google Play Referrer API

Understanding how people find your app and what they do once they’ve installed it is crucial to helping you make the right product and marketing decisions. To help you obtain more accurate and reliable data about your installs, we’re introducing the Google Play Install Referrer API, which is a reliable way to securely retrieve install referral content. For details and code, check out the post.

Lower prices for GPUs and preemptible Local SSDs

We’re cutting the price of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs attached to on-demand Google Compute Engine virtual machines by up to 36 percent. Lower priced GPUs, together with Custom VM shapes and Sustained Usage Discounts, allow you to run highly parallelized compute tasks on GPUs with strong performance, all at a great price. Links to get started are on the post.

The Journey From Big Data to AI

Machine learning and data driven analysis can help you unlock valuable insights. But it’s not always easily to know where or how to start. To help with that, we’re hosting Cloud OnAir: The Journey From Big Data to AI on December 5 in the Americas and December 6 for the rest of the world. It’s a global online event, so everyone can join, no matter where you are. Links to view the breakout sessions and register are on the post.

Multi-database support in Firebase

We’re excited to announce multi-database support in your Firebase Projects which makes scaling your Realtime Database a lot easier. Check out the post for screenshots and code.