Google Cloud Platform

• Use containers to make your development and deployment simpler with the Google Cloud Platform. Google Container Engine and Google Container Registry recently got some enhancements to give you more options in managing container images and running services at scale.

Web Developer Training

• Learn to be a Senior Web Developer with the Nanodegree Program just launched on Udacity. This course covers everything from Service Worker and Web Components to Gulp and other tools. Ido joined us on the show to talk more about this program.

Google Maps

• Travel Time, one of the most powerful features from the consumer Google Maps experience, is now available in the Google Maps APIs so you can make your location-based apps even more relevant and useful for your users.
• Tripping.com and Navagis used Google Maps APIs to improve UX and increase revenue and traffic by more than 2,000% over the past 12 months. Find out how you can also go plaid in this article written by the director of engineering at Tripping.com.

Android

• A full featured, open-source, sample Test Device Policy Controller is now available to help you test your Android for Work feature. You can configure it for all the Android for Work scenarios so you can test your feature on a single device without having to redeploy a policy each time. Rich was on the show to talk to us about why this is so useful.
• The minimum purchase price for apps and in-app products on Google Play has been reduced; giving developers more flexibility to adapt their pricing options to better suit local consumers in the more than 190 countries where Google Play is available.
• The second edition of “The Secrets to App Success on Google Play” is now available to help you discover the useful features, tips, and best practices that will help you grow a successful app or game business on Google Play.
• New emulators, support for runtime permission checks, audio, and resource qualifiers for round. These are the awesome new updates to The Android Wear SDK for API 23, available now.

Developer Summits

• Both the Chrome Dev Summit and Android Dev Summit happened here in Mountain View and they were awesome. Don’t worry if you weren’t able to make it in person, all the videos are available online. I also managed to get some time at the Chrome Dev Summit with Darin Fisher and Paul Irish to talk about the future of the web, those interviews are both in this week’s show.

Android

• User identity has gotten a lot easier with the latest release of Google Play Services. We’ve revamped Sign-in to make implementation simpler and provide users a more streamlined experience. Other updates touch Smart Lock APIs, the Fused Location Provider, and App invites. Magnus joined us on the show to give us more details on the release.
• More than 19 thousand organizations are now testing or using Android for Work which makes it easier and safer for employees to use their own Android devices for work.
• Important bug and crash fixes are in place with the latest release of the Android Support Library, available now.
• Find success for your app or game business with Google Play — this is the goal behind a new playlist of videos from our annual developer event, Playtime 2015.
• The Android Dev Summit is just around the corner! If you can’t make it in person, remember to tune into the live stream November 23rd and 24th.

TensorFlow

• TensorFlow is Google’s latest machine learning system and it’s open source. Seriously, it’s awesome. I caught up with the technical lead on the project to talk about what it means for researchers and software engineers. Watch the show for more.

Chrome

• Also, the Chrome Dev Summit has wrapped and if you weren’t able to make it in person, that’s okay! All the sessions are available online.
• Splash screens for web apps launched from the home screen on Android and script execution deferring are two big things launching with Chrome 47 on December 1st. Pete was on the show to tell us what we need to pay the most attention to for that launch.
• Compound bindings as well as effective children and distributed node observers are the two significant features included in the latest release of Polymer.

Maps

• The Google Maps API meetups and hackathons continue with the Europe version of ‘Code the Road’. You can sign up today to find out what’s possible with the Google Maps APIs.