This week, you should be using Android Studio 2.0! How one app increased its user engagement with material design. And, how an exciting collaboration between software engineers and researchers is shaping the way genomic data is processed in the cloud.

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Android Studio 2.0

Android Studio 2.0 is the fastest way to build high quality, performant apps for the Android platform, including phones and tablets, Android Auto, Android Wear, and Android TV. If you are developing for Android, you should be using Android Studio 2.0. Check out the blog post for the latest features and a link to the latest stable release.

Increase User Engagement With Material Design

In this week’s Android Developer Story, WeVideo explains how relaunching their app with material design increased user engagement by 100%. They also share how WeVideo improved monetization and installs using ratings & reviews, store listing experiments, and other features on Google Play. Click here for the full video.

Stackdriver Error Reporting

Quickly understand your cloud application’s top or new errors with Stackdriver Error Reporting, now available in beta for everyone to try. Zero setup is needed for App Engine applications and it requires just a few configuration steps on other platforms. Stackdriver Error Reporting counts, analyzes and aggregates in real time the crashes in your running cloud services, and notifies you when there’s something new. More details and screenshots are on this post.

Google Maps SDK for iOS

We recently launched the Google Maps SDK for iOS version one point one three. This release includes the ability to create advanced marker animations, the ability to set the frame rate up to 60 frames per second, further custom styling for the Place Autocomplete widget, and more. Details, and a link to the SDK, are on the post.

Genomic Data Processing on Google Cloud Platform

Ok, that was a super-short set of updates this week. So here’s one more thing just for fun. This is a post on the Google Research blog from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard about how their researchers and software engineers are collaborating closely with the Google Genomics team on large-scale genomic data analysis. They’ve already significantly reduced the time and cost for whole genome processing and are helping researchers think even bigger. Check it out.

This week, I go over all the latest updates from the new Google Developers Machine Learning Series to the latest monetization tips. The Developer Show is where you can stay up to date on all the latest Google Developer news, straight from the experts.

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Machine Learning: Recipes for New Developers

Have you ever wanted to implement Machine Learning into your app but didn’t want to take the time to get the PhD? Josh Gordon has a new video series for you: “Machine Learning: Recipes for New Developers”. Click the link for the first episode and your introduction to Machine Learning.

Embed Immersive Content Into Your Apps

Google Cardboard is at it again, at now there is an easy way for you to embed immersive content on Android, iOS, and the web with a “VR view” from the Cardboard SDK. And, yes, you heard me right: a native Cardboard SDK is now available for iOS. Click through to the blog post for all the links.

Monetization Tips

Learn how to use flexibility to your advantage with these tips from the Director of Business Development at MobiSystems, the company behind OfficeSuite, a successful mobile office solution for Android with a user base of over 200 million. This is the latest post from the Inside Admob blog series featuring monetization tips straight from successful app developers.

Android Experiments I/O Challenge

The 2016 Android Experiments I/O challenge is now ready for your code! The top three winners of the contest will receive a trip to this year’s Google I/O, and the five runner-ups will get the new Nexus 6P. From now through April 13th, you can enter by submitting your experiments to the gallery.

Google Cloud Datastore Pricing

The Google Cloud Datastore is simplifying pricing; which will cut costs dramatically for most use cases. Cloud Datastore is a highly-scalable NoSQL database for web and mobile applications. Along with the simpler pricing model, there’ll be a more transparent method of calculating stored data in Cloud Datastore. See the blog post for all the details.

Google Cloud Persistent Disk Resizing

Also new from The Google Cloud Platform, you can now resize Google Cloud Persistent Disks without downtime. With this feature, Persistent Disk capacity planning becomes much simpler. It’s as easy as a button click or a single API call, doesn’t cause any downtime to Google Compute Engine instances, doesn’t require snapshotting, and it applies to all Persistent Disks, including the recently announced 64TB volumes.

April Fools’ Jokes

One last thing — if you missed any of the fun Google April Fools jokes, take a look at VentureBeat’s round-up.