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Android N Developer Preview

Android Developers! The developer preview of Android N[redacted] is now available. The new release includes multi-window, direct reply notifications, and bundled notifications. This year we’re releasing an early “work in progress” build so you have even more time to send us feedback. Check out the post, the video, and preview!

Mobile Micro-Moments

Learn exactly what people expect from a mobile experience from the new mobile design hub on Think with Google: Designing for Mobile Micro-Moments. These are intent-driven moments of decision-making and preference-shaping that occur throughout the entire consumer journey. Jump over to the hub for more.

Monetization tips

Learn how to design your game for user retention and more with these tips from the founder of TapBlaze, a popular game app company with over 15 titles and millions of downloads. This is the latest post from the Inside Admob blog series featuring monetization tips straight from successful app developers.

Analytics for Google Cast Applications

Get insight into how your Google Cast applications are being used and see the impact of your improvements by viewing analytics now available in the Google Cast Developer Console! Check out the post for screenshots and more.

Slack + Google Cloud Platform

Get started building Slack integrations on The Google Cloud Platform with samples available now on GitHub. Clone the repository to see how it works or fork it to use as a base for your own integrations. Here’s the post for all that and more.

This week: new algorithms to lower the cost of secure computing, Project Tango takes on the museum experience, and more useful tools for developers like the Google Play Developer Policy Center.

Open Source

We recently open-sourced three new hash function implementations: faster, data-parallel versions of SipHash; a fast cryptographically strong pseudorandom function; and the entirely new HighwayHash, which reaches even higher speeds thanks to the data parallel features of modern computers. Check out the post for more info and the GitHub links.

Cloud

Learn how to build your own recommendation engine using machine learning on Google Compute Engine with this post from the Google Cloud Platform Team.

Want to know why your application is slow? Cloud Trace for Google Cloud Platform can help. Today, we’re adding more features and functionality including automatic tracing and performance analysis for all App Engine projects and Latency shift detection. As always, the post has more.

Apps Script

Add-ons run inside Google Sheets, Docs, and Forms, but they’re built by developers like you. Check out this post, for five simple design tips to help make your add-on a pleasure to use. And don’t worry if you’re not an artist — these are basic concepts that anyone can apply.

Android

Optimizing retention before investing in acquisition and retaining users with step-by-step engagement are concepts that come from the world of games. Learn how you can use these tips and insights from successful game developers in your app with this post from Google Play.

We’ve redesigned our Developer Program Policy Center to communicate our policies with greater transparency and clarity. From making it easier to self-correct minor violations in minutes using the app publishing status feature to improving our policy communication, the new policy center is part of our ongoing effort to improve the developer experience.

Project Tango

We recently invited Mobile World Congress attendees into the National Art Museum of Catalonia with Project Tango developer kits loaded with GuidiGO (a museum tour app) and Glympse (a location-sharing app); to experience augmented reality and indoor navigation for themselves. And it was really cool. Check out the post for more details and a video of the experience.

Public-Key Encryption

Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman have won the 2015 ACM Turing Award, commonly known as the “Nobel Prize of Computing.” Their 1976 paper entitled “New Directions in Cryptography” introduced public-key encryption which is a foundational technology for the commercial World Wide Web.