The Developer Show — TL;DR 093

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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TL;DR 093 — December 22nd, 2017

LoWPAN on Android Things

Android Things Developer Preview 6.1 has API support for configuring and managing Low-power Wireless Personal Area Network including first-class networking support for Thread. These types of connectivity solutions enable Android Things devices to perform edge computing tasks, aggregating data locally from nearby devices to make critical decisions without a constant connection to cloud services. Links to get started are on the post.

Flutter plugin v20

The M20 release of the Flutter plugin for Android Studio and IntelliJ is now available! Fixes and improvements are listed on the post.

OAuth whitelisting for GCP services and data

Our OAuth API access controls now let you control access to GCP resources in addition to your users’ G Suite data. Details and screenshots are on the post.

Cloud ML Engine

To help you do more with ML, we’ve adjusted our prices for Cloud Machine Learning Engine and added new features including Python and TensorFlow updates. More details are on the post.

Video Intelligence and Natural Language Updates

We’ve also been expanding our portfolio of pre-trained machine learning models to offer more intuitive features. Cloud Video Intelligence, our machine learning API that analyzes video content, is generally available and now offers video transcription. Cloud Natural Language Content Classification, our latest feature, which automatically classifies content into over 700 categories, is now generally available and has added additional samples in seven programming languages.

Core ML support in TensorFlow Lite

You can now deploy TensorFlow models with Core ML on iOS. Links to the documentation and the Core ML converter are on the post.

Hangouts Meet now available in the Google Calendar API

Hangouts Meet is now accessible through the Google Calendar API to read conference data associated with events, copy conference data from one event to another, and request new conference generation for an event. Example code is on the post.

MechaHamster for iOS

We built an iOS game with Firebase and the Unity Project is open source. Take a look at the post to learn more about the Firebase Unity SDK and how it’s used in MechaHamster.

Diagnose and understand GPU behavior with GAPID

The Graphics API Debugger is a new tool that helps you diagnose rendering and performance issues with your applications. With it, you can capture a trace of your application and step through each graphics command one-by-one. Take a look at the post for screenshots and the download link.

S2 Library: Geometry on the Sphere

The S2 library is the core geometric library on which Google’s global geographic database is built and now it’s open source. Take a look at the post for a description and the GitHub link.



The Developer Show — TL;DR 092

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 092 — December 8th, 2017

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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