Highlights: LinkedIn and Android Studio, Distill (Machine Learning), SyntaxNet upgrade

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LinkedIn uses Android Studio

LinkedIn uses Android Studio to build high quality Android apps. To hear their pro-tips, visit the link for the video.

Guetzli: A New Open Source JPEG Encoder

Guetzli is a new open source algorithm that creates high quality JPEG images with file sizes 35% smaller than currently available methods. A link to the GitHub is on the post.

Faster 3D rendering with WebGL 2.0

The WebGL JavaScript API exposes hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the web. Chrome 56 brings support for WebGL 2.0, a major upgrade to the API which unlocks a variety of new graphics features and advanced rendering techniques. To get started using WebGL 2.0, check out the WebGL 2.0 Samples Pack, linked from the post.

An Upgrade to SyntaxNet

We are releasing a major upgrade to SyntaxNet. It incorporates nearly a year’s worth of our research on multilingual language understanding, and is available to anyone interested in building systems for processing and understanding text. To learn more about SyntaxNet or a new a multilingual parsing competition, check out the post.

Distill: Supporting Clarity in Machine Learning

Science isn’t just about discovering new results. It’s also about human understanding. That’s why, in collaboration with OpenAI, DeepMind, YC Research, and others, we’re excited to announce the launch of Distill, a new open science journal and ecosystem supporting human understanding of machine learning. Distill is an independent organization, dedicated to fostering a new segment of the research community. Follow the link see the overview page or read the latest articles.

Profiling your Realtime Database Performance

You can now get insights into how your Firebase Realtime Database instance is performing by using the profiler built into the Firebase CLI. That means, you can now easily monitor your database writes and reads at the path level, collecting granular data on bandwidth usage and speed. Screenshots are on the post.

Native Express Video

In the past few weeks, AdMob has rolled out support for video assets in Native Ads Express, giving you a new way to create more engaging presentations for your users. Code and a video are on the post.

Highlights: Android Studio 2.3, Firebase Notifications, Realtime Analytics

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Launchpad Accelerator

You can now apply for the next class of the Launchpad Accelerator. The equity-free program will begin on July 17th, 2017 at the Google Developers Launchpad Space in San Francisco and will include 2 weeks of all-expense-paid training. We’re now accepting applications from several countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Europe.

Android Studio 2.3

Android Studio 2.3 is now available. The focus for this release has been quality improvements across the IDE. For more details including screenshots and a video introduction as well as the link to download, head on over to the post.

Introducing Python Fire

If you build python code that you’d like available on the command line, this open source tool is for you. Python Fire generates command line interfaces from any Python code. Simply call the Fire function in any Python program to automatically turn that program into a CLI. The GitHub link is on the post.

Firebase Notifications updates

We’ve made updates to Firebase Notifications to help you reach your users with greater focus. This release includes a set of enhancements to the Firebase Notifications console that will allow you to be much more granular in selecting the audience that receives your notification. More details and a screenshot are on the post.

Realtime Analytics for everyone

StreamView and DebugView from Firebase Analytics are being rolled out to the general public. StreamView visualizes events as they flow into Firebase Analytics, and gives you a general sense of how your users are interacting with your app. With DebugView, you can immediately see which events are being reported to Firebase Analytics. More details and some very cool screenshots are on the post.

Issue tracker Google Cloud Platform

We’re working on facilitating better collaboration between you and the Google Cloud Platform product teams, by upgrading to Issue Tracker, a tool we use internally at Google. We’ve migrated all the issues. Check them out or file your own by first clicking through to the post.

VM migration to Google Cloud Platform

We’re collaborating with CloudEndure, a cloud migration and disaster recovery provider, to offer a no cost, self-service migration tool for Google Cloud Platform customers. It allows you to migrate virtual machines and physical servers from their existing environment into GCP with near-zero downtime and little to no disruption. Click through to watch the webinar and get started today.

AdMob updates

At the recent Game Developers Conference, we announced important updates to AdMob that could help you unlock new business with rewarded video formats and free, unlimited and real-time analytics reporting. More details on how these features help you monetize your games more effectively are on the post.