The Developer Show — TL;DR 43
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.
The Developer Show — TL;DR 042
Highlights: Shopping with Tango and WayfairView, Google VR SDK out of beta, Android Studio 2.2, BigQuery and Firebase Analytics, custom map styling with Google Maps APIs
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Shopping made simple with Tango and WayfairView
Tango-enabled apps like WayfairView make it easy to visualize and rearrange new furniture in your home. To learn more about their app and see how Tango helps power new AR shopping experiences, check out the post.
Google VR SDK graduates out of beta
The Google VR SDK 1.0 with support for Daydream has graduated out of beta, and is now available on the Daydream developer site. The updated SDK simplifies common VR development tasks and supports integrated asynchronous reprojection, high fidelity spatialized audio, and interactions using the Daydream controller. To learn more and get links to the docs, samples, and tutorials. Head on over to the post.
Android Studio 2.2
Android Studio 2.2 is out of preview and now available to download in the stable channel. For more info and screenshots on the layout editor, improved C++ support, and other top highlights. Take a look at the post.
Image captioning open sourced in TensorFlow
The latest version of our image captioning system is now available as an open source model in TensorFlow. This release contains significant improvements to the computer vision component of the captioning system, is much faster to train, and produces more detailed and accurate descriptions compared to the original system which tied for first place in a 2015 image captioning challenge. For details and the GitHub link, head on over to the post.
3 Developers Winning with Native
AdMob’s native ads express is a quick and simple way to set up and monetize your native ads effectively. Take a look at the post where three developers share their success stories of switching to native and growing both their revenue and business.
IoT easier with Particle and Google Cloud Platform
With a new direct integration between Particle (an IoT cloud platform and hardware provider) and Google Cloud Platform, you can now easily bring your IoT data to big data tools such as Google Cloud Dataflow and Google BigQuery.
Using BigQuery and Firebase Analytics
One of the coolest cloud integrations with the new Firebase platform is the ability to export raw data from Firebase Analytics to Google BigQuery for custom analysis. To see what you can do with this combination along with some code, check out the post.
Global Historical Daily Weather Data in BigQuery
Speaking of big data, historical daily weather from the Global Historical Climate Network is now available in Google BigQuery. The data comes from over 80,000 stations in 180 countries, spans several decades and has been quality-checked to ensure that it’s temporally and spatially consistent. Take a look at the post for some code and graphs to get started.
Custom map styling with the Google Maps APIs on Android and iOS
Cross-platform custom map styling is here. You can change the color palette of your maps, hide labels, vary road density, and toggle points of interest. Which means your maps can now match your brand and style across your website and your apps using the same JSON style object. Oh, and there’s a video. Take a look by jumping over to the post.
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