Jump to the tl;dr below for just the updates and links.

This week on The Developer Show I talked with Joanna Smith about the conversation that happened in the hallways at the Android Dev Summit, Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson about Instant Run and the new “55 times faster” Android Studio 2.0, and Jason Sanmiya about the open source VR & mobile game, Zooshi. Oh, and Reto brought us another “Who’s Doing What Now,” this time on Android Doze Mode.

tl;dr

Just the updates and the links.

Games

• Zooshi is a new open source, cross-platform game written in C++ that demonstrates how to build games using a suite of newly released and updated open source game technologies from Google. Check out the six recently updated open source tools you can use in your game. Jason Sanmiya is the TL for Zooshi and joined us on the show to tell us more.

Happy Birthday, Go!

• You’ve just turned six and you have over 780 contributors, with 30 thousand commits in 22 repositories. Thank you to everyone in the open source community who’ve made Go what it is today.

Cloud

• Create virtual machines with exactly the amount of power and memory that you need using Custom Machine Types on the Google Cloud Platform. No more rounding up to a power of two and wasting money on unused resources.
• A bunch of network performance and flexibility improvements have recently come to the Google Cloud Platform including the general availability of HTTPS Load Balancing, segmenting your IP space with subnetworks, dynamic routing on Cloud Router for seamless connectivity with no traffic disruption, and the ability to use Akamai as a CDN Interconnect provider.

Star Wars!

• Okay, so this isn’t exactly developer related, but if you love Star Wars check out google.com/starwars to add a little light side or dark side to your Google experience.

Android

• 30% of all smartphone sales worldwide happen in the last three months of the year and ad impressions spike by nearly 30% as well between October and January. This makes January an excellent time to promote your app. Check out this infographic for more.
• Find out how Fablic improved sign ups by 30% and increased retention by 20% using Material Design and Android Studio.
• App builds and deployment are both faster with Android Studio 2.0. The new version features Instant Run, a feature that will dramatically improve your development workflow. More on this later in the show as I get the inside scoop from product manager Stephanie Cuthbertson.
• Speaking of Android, the Android Dev Summit has wrapped. We had a great time meeting developers and talking about all things Android and we’ve got a few more clips to play from the event as well as Joanna Smith on the show today to share more about what went down at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

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.