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Android 8.1 Developer Preview

The Android 8.1 developer preview is now available. It includes a set of targeted enhancements including optimizations for Android Go and a new Neural Networks API to accelerate on-device machine intelligence. We’ve also included a few smaller enhancements to Oreo in response to user and developer feedback. All the details are on the post.

Android Studio 3.0

Android Studio 3.0 is a large update focused on accelerating your app development on Android; and it’s ready to download today. Head on over to the post for details, video, and screenshots covering everything that’s new with Android Studio 3.0.

Go 1.8 on App Engine

Go 1.8 introduces library, runtime, performance, and security improvements. And it is now generally available for the Google App Engine standard environment.

Gmail add-ons

The Gmail add-ons framework, which we previewed earlier this year, is now available to all developers. It lets you integrate your app into Gmail and extend Gmail to handle quick actions. A video and links to the docs and a codelab are on the post.

Chrome 63 Beta

Our post for Chrome 63 Beta is out and covers Dynamic module imports, async iterators and generators, Device Memory API, and permissions UI changes. All the details and code are on the post.

GCP Podcast

After years of interviewing Google Cloud Platform customers, product managers, engineers, developer experts, salespeople, support staff and more, Google Cloud Platform Podcast has released their 100th episode! Congratulations Francesc, Mark, and the whole podcast team from all of us over at the Dev Show.

Build Out

In episode one of Build Out, Colt and Reto go head-to-head presenting competing system architecture designs for a Smart Garden. The restriction? They must use the Tasks API. Check out the first episode of Build Out.

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Google Play’s Indie Games Contest

We recently announced the second annual Google Play Indie Games Contest in Europe, expanding to more countries and bigger prizes. The contest rewards your passion, creativity and innovation, and provides support to help bring your game to more people. Head on over to the post for more details on prizes and how to enter.

OpenFermion

In the category of too cool not to mention is our recent open source release for Quantum Computers. OpenFermion, is the first open source platform for translating problems in chemistry and materials science into quantum circuits that can be executed on existing platforms. A lot more detail can be found on the post.

Video Dataset of Human Actions

To help with further research into human action recognition, we’ve released a new dataset that provides multiple action labels for each person in extended video sequences. The dataset consists of URLs for publicly available videos from YouTube, annotated with a set of 80 atomic actions (such as “walk” or “shake hands”) that are spatial-temporally localized, resulting in over 57 thousand video segments, 96 thousand labeled humans performing actions, and a total of 210 thousand action labels. Examples, charts, and a link to download the data are on the post.

Data Loss Prevention API

Keeping sensitive and regulated data private can be a challenge. The Data Loss Prevention API, can help you quickly find and protect over 50 types of sensitive data such as credit card numbers, names, and national ID numbers. And, there are several new ways to help protect sensitive data with the DLP API, including redaction, masking, and tokenization. Check out the post for all the details.

Google Cloud Launcher

The Google Cloud platform Cloud Launcher marketplace provides production-grade solutions that you can launch and manage in just a few clicks. Click To Deploy solutions further lower operational costs with open source products that are maintained by Google. We recently launched 21 new VM solutions for some of the most popular open-source products including Node.js, Ruby Stack, and MySQL. Get started with the post.

Get your ads ready for iPhone X

With the launch of the iPhone X, you need to plan for new design considerations as the rounded corners, notch, and home screen indicator on the extended screen can obscure content and lead to poor ad experiences for users when ads are placed in these areas. Which is why we’ve put together a guide to help you adapt your ad strategy for iPhone X, which you can get by visiting the post.