Highlights: Localization on Google Play, automatic line breaking tool for Japanese on the web, new storage classes for Google Cloud Storage

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Expand globally by localizing on Google Play

Drupe and Noom have expanded globally by localizing their apps on Google Play. drupe increased their daily active users by 300%, and actions per average daily user increased 25% in the Indian market. For more details on each and a link to the localization checklist, check out the post.

Budou: Automatic Japanese line breaking

Here’s a cool new open source tool that does automatic line breaking for Japanese on the web. This is particularly important because line breaking for Japanese otherwise occurs randomly, usually in the middle of a word. The tools uses Cloud Natural Language API to analyze the input sentence, and it concatenates proper words in order to produce meaningful chunks utilizing “part-of-speech” tagging and syntactic information. The GitHub link is on the post.

New storage classes for Google Cloud Storage

There’s just been a major refresh of Google Cloud Storage which includes new storage classes, data lifecycle management tools, improved availability, and lower prices. All to make it easy for you to store your data with the right type of storage. More details with charts and examples are on the post.

Google Stackdriver

Google Stackdriver was designed to make ops easier by reducing the burden associated with keeping applications fast, error-free, and available in the cloud… and it is now generally available for hybrid cloud monitoring, logging, and diagnostics. For more on the announcement and how to use Stackdriver including code, check out these links:

• Production Debugging the Easy Way
• Google Stackdriver now generally available

Chrome 55 Beta

Chrome 55 Beta is now available with input handling improvements, async and await functions, CSS automatic hyphenation, and more. All the details and code are on the post.

Highlights: Pokémon GO, Google Play on Android Wear, Cloud, Robotics, Udacity VR Developer Nanodegree

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Udacity VR Developer Nanodegree

We’ve partnered with Udacity to create the VR Developer Nanodegree. When you take the course, you’ll learn how to create 3D environments, define behaviors, and make VR experiences comfortable, immersive, and performant. To get started, follow this link.

Android Wear 2.0 Dev Preview 3

The third developer preview of Android Wear 2.0 is now available with Google Play on Android Wear, making it easy for users to find and install apps directly on the watch. For screenshots and details on the other updates, take a look at the post.

Powering geospatial analysis

The data from Landsat and Sentinel-2 are now available on Google Cloud. This puts over a petabyte of the world’s leading public, cost-free satellite imagery data available at your fingertips.

Pokémon GO on Google Cloud

The user growth that Google Cloud customer Niantic experienced with the launch of Pokémon GO was extraordinary. For some pretty absurd graphs and details of what happened behind the scenes, take a look at this post.

Robots’ Shared Experience

Also in the category of awesome posts, here’s one about robots learning from each other’s experiences.

Open Images Dataset

And that’s not the only cool Machine Learning stuff to read about. We’re introducing, Open Images, which is a dataset consisting of around 9 million URLs to images that have been annotated with labels spanning over 6000 categories.

YouTube-8M Dataset

We’re also releasing a dataset of 8 million YouTube video URLs — representing over 500,000 hours of video — along with video-level labels from a diverse set of 4800 Knowledge Graph entities.

Make UX a Priority with Native Ads

Native ads are less jarring than traditional ads and they fit in with app content more naturally, providing a better user experience. Check out this post for four ways you can make UX a priority both within your app and ad experience.

Build Your App Growth Strategy With Firebase and AdMob

Here’s a post and video to help you understand how Firebase and AdMob work together. Follow the link to learn how to save time by linking your AdMob app to a Firebase project, monetize smarter with Firebase Analytics, and help grow your users with Firebase.