Highlights: GDG DevFest, Closure Compiler, Google Play Developer Console, Android Early Access Collection, Android A/B testing, Hutch, Google Cloud Platform, Google Cloud Endpoints, Inception and Image Classification in TensorFlow

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Hello I’m Timothy Jordan, and this is your update about the coolest developer news from Google in the last week.

DevFest Season has started!

It’s DevFest season again! Which means there’s likely to be a community-run developer event near you sometime in the next three months. Head on over to the post to find your local DevFest so you can hang out with other developers and share ideas about Firebase, the Google Cloud Platform, machine learning with TensorFlow, web development, and more!

Closure Compiler in JavaScript

The Closure Compiler is now available in pure JavaScript. It’s a JavaScript optimizer, transcompiler and type checker, which compiles your code into a high-performance, minified version. Nearly every web frontend at Google uses it to serve the smallest, fastest code possible. And now you can run it under NodeJS with support for some popular build tools. Check out the post for links to the docs, a demo project, and some getting started tips.

The Power Of “Early Access”

If you have an app you’re getting ready to launch on Google Play, you can nominate your app or game to be part of the Early Access collection. It’s the place for new Android titles that are running an open beta available for anyone to try before they officially launch. For more info including who is using this and why, check out the post.

Hutch improves player engagement with A/B testing on Google Play

Hutch is a London based mobile studio focusing entirely on racing games with more than 10 million players on Google Play. For their latest game, MMX Hill Climb, they used A/B testing and game analytics to improve the game design and experience resulting in more than 48 minutes of daily active usage per user. Check out the video on this post to hear them explain how.

Manage your APIs with Google Cloud Endpoints

Google Cloud Endpoints is a distributed API management suite that lets you deploy, protect, monitor, and manage APIs written in any language and running on the Google Cloud Platform. Check out this post to read about the newest set of features and open source components now in open beta.

Scalable web prototypes using the Google Cloud Platform stack

This is a post by a web engineer here at Google who used the Google Cloud Platform stack to create a bespoke machine learning system. It’s a really cool look at how to use multiple cloud components together for prototyping full end-to-end systems.

Improving Inception and Image Classification in TensorFlow

And as long as we’re talking about Machine Learning, here’s a post on the release of Inception ResNet V-2. It’s a convolutional neural network that achieves a new state of the art in terms of accuracy on the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge image classification benchmark. A explanation of what that means and links to the GitHub project, are on the post.

Highlights: Android 7.0 Nougat, Street View renderer, Google Santa Tracker open source, TensorFlow, Google Cloud Platform, Strackdriver, Maven and Gradle, Google Cloud Tools for IntelliJ, ASP.NET on Google Cloud Platform.

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Android 7.0 Nougat

Android 7.0 Nougat has begun rolling out to users. For more on what’s included, how we’re rolling it out, and what’s next… check out the post.

New JavaScript Street View renderer

There’s a new Street View renderer in the Google Maps JavaScript API that brings rendering improvements and better mobile support. Street View helps make apps more unique and exciting by giving users a sense of what it’s like to visit a place in real life. Check out the post for all the improvements including before and after screen-caps.

Google Santa Tracker

The open source version of Google’s Santa Tracker has been updated with the Android and web experiences that ran last December. We extended, enhanced and upgraded our code… and you can see how we used our developer products — including Firebase and Polymer — by following this link.

A high level library to define complex models in TensorFlow

Check out this post for highlights from the latest release of TF-Slim. The TF-Slim library provides common abstractions which enable you to define models quickly and concisely, while keeping the model architecture transparent and its hyperparameters explicit.

Text summarization with TensorFlow

Also from TensorFlow: we’re opening sourcing TensorFlow model code for generating news headlines on Annotated English Gigaword which is a dataset often used in summarization research. Check out the post for details and the GitHub link.

Stackdriver Debugger application logs

Stackdriver is great for troubleshooting issues in production cloud applications. And it now has logs panel integration. Not only can you gather production application state and link to its source, you can *also* view the raw logs associated with your Google App Engine projects, all on one page. More details and a screenshot are on the post.

New Maven and Gradle plugins

I’ve got two Google Cloud Platform updates for Java developers. First, the beta release of two new build tool plugins: one for Apache Maven and another for Gradle. These plugins allow you to test your applications locally and then deploy them to the cloud from the Command Line Interface or through integration with an IDE such as Eclipse and IntelliJ.

Google Cloud Tools for IntelliJ plugin

And, on that note, you can now use the new Google Cloud Tools for IntelliJ plugin to deploy your application in App Engine standard and App Engine Flexible and use Google Stackdriver Debugger and Google Cloud Source Repositories without leaving that IDE.

Windows workloads on Google Cloud Platform

Here’s another bundle of posts for the Google Cloud Platform, these are about working with windows workloads. Everything from setting up a Windows Server and SQL Server on Google Compute Engine to Cloud Tools for Visual Studio and PowerShell. Check out all three posts:

• Making ASP.NET apps first-class citizens on Google Cloud Platform
• Getting started with Google Cloud Client Libraries for .NET
• SQL Server images on Google Compute Engine