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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.

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Google Assistant

We recently announced a set of new features to make it easier for users to find, interact, and re-engage with your app on Google Assistant. Details are on the post.

Android Things Contest Winners

Back in September, we worked with Hackster.io to encourage y’all to build smart connected devices using Android Things and post your projects to the Developer Challenge for Android Things. The winners are in and you can check them out on this post.

Announcing TensorFlow Lite

The developer preview of TensorFlow Lite is now available. It’s TensorFlow’s lightweight solution for mobile and embedded devices that enables low-latency inference of on-device machine learning models. TensorFlow Lite is lightweight, cross-platform, and fast. Take a look at the post for everything you need to get started.

Conversational Modeling with TensorFlow Lite

As part of TensorFlow Lite, we also released an on-device conversational model and a demo app that provides an example of a natural language application powered by TensorFlow Lite. We hope this will make it easier for you to build new machine intelligence features powered by on-device inference.

SLING: A Natural Language Frame Semantic Parser

SLING is an experimental system for parsing natural language text directly into a representation of its meaning as a semantic frame graph. The output frame graph directly captures the semantic annotations of interest to the user, while avoiding the pitfalls of pipelined systems by not running any intermediate stages.

Dialogflow Enterprise Edition

Dialogflow Enterprise Edition is now available in beta. It expands on all the benefits of Dialogflow, offering greater flexibility and support to meet the needs of large-scale businesses. We also announced speech integration within Dialogflow, enabling you to build rich voice-based applications. Check out the post for more details.

Multi-Region support in Cloud Spanner

Cloud Spanner Multi-Region configurations are now generally available. With this release, we’ve extended Cloud Spanner’s transactions and synchronous replication across regions and continents. That means no matter where your users may be, apps backed by Cloud Spanner can read and write up-to-date data globally and do so with minimal latency for end users.

Introducing container-diff

Container-diff is a tool for quickly comparing container images and it’s now open source. The GitHub link is on the post.

Firebase Cloud Messaging

Firebase Cloud Messaging is a cross-platform messaging solution that reliably delivers messages at no cost. It sends over 400 billion messages per day. We recently announced of a new RESTful API, the Firebase Cloud Messaging HTTP v1 API, that makes it safer and easier to send messages to your cross-platform applications. Examples are on the post.

Google Developers Launchpad Africa

We’re excited to announce Google Developers Launchpad Africa, our new hands-on comprehensive mentorship program tailored exclusively to startups based in Africa. Applications are due on December 11, 9am Pacific Time and the first class will start in early 2018.