Newsletter - August 2017

Android

• ICYMI, the final version of Android 8.0 (along with its official dessert name!) has been released. Make sure your apps are compatible .  
• The 20 finalists have been announced for the upcoming Google Play Indie Games Festival . Join us at the event to try out new games and vote for your favorites.
• Made for India is a Google Play initiative to discover and showcase developers who are building high quality apps and optimizing them for local users. If you have built or optimized your app for India, get in touch!

Firebase

• Register for the Firebase Dev Summit happening on October 31st in Amsterdam for a day of talks, instructor-led codelabs, as well as a bumping after-party.
• Introducing Conditional REST Requests for Firebase.
• Find more bugs using StrictMode with Firebase Test Lab for Android .
• Database support is now available in the Firebase Admin SDK for Python.
• Learn about the updates that made Cloud Functions Realtime Database Triggers more efficient.

Web

• Catch the session recordings and best moments of the Polymer Summit 2017 .
  
• Chrome Dev Summit is happening on October 23-24 in San Francisco. Sign-up to get updates about the event including registration info, ticket availability and more.
• Web development agencies in UK, India, and Indonesiacan now apply for free instructor led Progressive Web App training .
• Check out these media updates to Chrome 61 .
• Find an AMP Roadshow in your area to learn from experts and get hands-on experience with codelabs.
• Workbox is a collection of libraries and build tools for Progressive Web Apps that makes it easy to store your website’s resources locally on users’ devices, so that they load quickly, even without a network connection. Find more about its recent 1.2.0 release .
• HTML 5.2 is a Candidate Recommendation in final stages of standardization - review it now.

Misc

• Introducing the developer preview of ARCore , an Android Augmented Reality SDK that works with Java, Unity and Unreal, and includes APIs that bring high performance AR to mobile devices at scale, without requiring any special hardware. Start building today.
• Actions on Google is now available in British English across Google Home, select Android phones, and iPhone.
• Ask yourself these 5 questions to help you select your optimal Google Cloud Platform compute option.
• All AdWords app install campaigns will be moved to Universal App Campaigns later this year. Upgrade to UAC or get an ad credit to try UAC if you haven’t yet.
• 10 new Google Developers Agency Program members from across the globe have been certified for Android development. Learn about the program , register your interest , and view spotlight stories on our agency members.
• This eBook written in collaboration with Awwwards offers valuable tips for developers and designers to optimize mobile performance.
• Solve For India is a series of conferences running until end of October to nurture, support & mentor developers & entrepreneurs across India. Come learn about the latest Google technologies and get access to mentorship from Googlers.