Newsletter - May 2017

Android

• At I/O we announced the release of the latest Android Studio 3.0 Canary build focusing on speed, smarts and Android platform support.
• We also took a historic first step to add a new programming language in Android Studio - Kotlin.
• Finally, we launched a preview of of the new Architecture Components and made Instant Apps publicly available for all developers.
• Check out this year's Google Play Award winners announced on day 2 of Google I/O!

Firebase

• Missed I/O? Check out our blog post for a full recap of all the exciting updates to Firebase that launched earlier this month. And find some highlights below!
• Firebase Performance Monitoring is a new, free tool that helps you understand when your user experience is being impacted by poorly performing code or challenging network conditions.
• We've made a number of improvements to Google Analytics for Firebase (formerly known as Firebase Analytics), including sharing data with AdMob and custom parameter reporting.
• Phone authentication is now available in Firebase Authentication!
• We’ve taken a big first step towards open sourcing all of our SDKs. View our new repos on GitHub.

Web

• Check out our roundup of everything you need to know about the mobile web from I/O.
• Test the new AMP-Bind component on your AMP site to provide greater page interactivity.
• AMP is now twice as fast on Google Search, with over 2B+ AMP pages created. Read more about AMP news announced at I/O.

Misc

• Actions on Google Developer Challenge: A challenge for developers to build for the Assistant using Actions on Google.
• Learn how to build a robotic mocktail mixer with the Google Assistant SDK.
• AIY Projects is Google’s effort to help makers infuse projects with AI. Build and share intelligent devices that solve real world problems. Made by you with Google.
• In this year’s growth and monetization Google I/O keynote we announced new innovations to help you find new users as they browse the Google Play homepage new ad placements; acquire users that spend in your app with new bidding strategies in Universal App Campaigns; earn more with a brand new AdMob built to give you richer insights and faster ways to take action.
• A new batch of amazing startups has been selected for Class 4 of the Launchpad Accelerator. They’ll begin the 6-month acceleration program, starting with 2 weeks of bootcamp training at Google in Mountain View.