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Firebase Test Lab

Android 7.1 Developer Preview is now available on Firebase Test Lab virtual devices. Firebase Test Lab for Android allows you to test your apps and ensure their compatibility with multiple device configurations, across OS versions, screen orientations, and locales. The latest updates and getting started tips are available on the post.

Firebase Dev Summit

For more Firebase updates, take a look at this great round-up post with all the details from the Firebase Dev Summit. And while, you’re at it, also take a look at the playlist of the sessions from the summit.

Support Ended for Eclipse Android Developer Tools

With the release of Android Studio 2.2, the time has come to say goodbye to the Eclipse Android Developer Tools. We have formally ended their support and development. Which means, there’s never been a better time to switch to Android Studio and experience the improvements we’ve made to the Android development workflow. For the latest updates and links, check out the post.

Bigtable paper earns the SIGOPS 2016 Hall of Fame Award

The original Bigtable paper entitled, “Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data” has received the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award. Which is really cool. For a link to the paper and to get started with Bigtable today, head on over to the post.

Mobile Ads Garage: Episode 10 — Ad Events

The latest episode of the Mobile Ads Garage is all about Ad Events. Check it out to see how to tap into the ad lifecycle so your app’s informed of loads, clickthroughs, and other key events. You’ll also get a detailed breakdown of the steps that occur in the life of an ad, info about which classes and callbacks to use for common tasks, and a real world example of how to put it all together.

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.