The Developer Show — TL;DR 074

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 074 — June, 16 2017

Android O APIs are final

We’re rolling out Developer Preview 3 with the final Android O APIs, the latest system images, and an update to Android Studio to help you get ready for the consumer release later in the summer. If you’ve already enrolled your device in the Android Beta Program, you’ll receive an update to Developer Preview 3 shortly. To make your app compatible with Android O and enhance it with Android O features and APIs; check out the post.

Google Play Billing Library

Developer Preview 1 of the Play Billing Library is now available. This library aims to simplify the development process when it comes to billing, allowing you to focus your efforts on implementing logic specific to your app, such as application architecture and navigation structure. For the intro video and a link to the codelab, head on over to the post.

Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API

There is now a reCAPTCHA Android API as part of Google Play Services. It uses our newest Invisible reCAPTCHA technology, which runs risk analysis behind the scenes and has enabled millions of human users to pass through with zero click everyday.

Introducing Blockly 1.0 for Android and iOS

Blockly is our open source library for creating block-based coding experiences. The 1.0 release is now available on Android and iOS. To get started, a video and all the links are on the post.

Making Dynamic Links Easier

The latest set of improvements to Firebase Dynamic Links are now available in our iOS and Android SDKs. Included is the ability to create user-to-user sharing campaigns programmatically from within your app and a rebuilt Android API to make it easier to handle incoming Dynamic Links into your app. Example code is on the post.

App Engine update

You can now manage both your custom domains and SSL certificates using the new beta features of the Admin API and gcloud command-line tool. These new beta features provide improved management, including the ability to automate mapping domains and uploading SSL certificates. Example commands are on the post.

Spinnaker 1.0

Spinnaker 1.0 is now available. It’s an open-source multi-cloud continuous delivery platform used in production at companies like Netflix, Waze, Target, and Cloudera. There’s also a new open-source command line interface tool called halyard that makes it easy to deploy Spinnaker itself. To learn what Spinnaker can do for your own software development processes, take a look at the post.



The Developer Show — TL;DR 073

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 073 — June 9, 2017

Android Security Rewards

Two years ago, we launched the Android Security Rewards program and since then we’ve rewarded researchers over $1.5 million dollars. We’re constantly working to improve the program and we’ve made a few changes to all vulnerability reports filed after June 1, 2017 including increasing some of the rewards. For the program rules and tips on how to submit complete reports, head on over to the post.

Python on App Engine

We’ve made upgrades for Python users on App Engine. Including the ability to deploy to Python 3.6 on App Engine flexible environment. And on App Engine standard environment, we’ve updated more than 2 million apps running Python 2.7.5 to Python 2.7.12. For more updates and details, check out the post.

Compute Engine Updates

Google Cloud is the first and only public cloud to deliver Intel’s next-generation Xeon server processor (codenamed Skylake), and starting today, it’s generally available. In addition, we’ve made several other enhancements to Compute Engine including: increased total amount of memory per instance by removing memory caps, increased variety of machine shapes, Broadwell CPUs available in all regions, and more.

Localization Essentials

We’ve launched a new online course called Localization Essentials that covers all localization basics needed to develop global products. It was developed in collaboration with Udacity, is free to access, and is linked from the post.

Introducing the Redesigned AdMob

We’ve rebuilt the AdMob platform from the ground up to help you build a profitable business faster and to stay profitable as you scale. It’s simple to use with a brand new user interface, has richer insights with a deep integration with Firebase, and comes with advanced controls to help you scale with Mediation Groups. For screenshots and to get started, check out the post.



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