Newsletter - May 2018

Android / Google Play

• Discover all the new features in the Google Play Console to help you improve your app quality and business performance on Google Play, announced during I/O 2018.
  
• With Android’s new app publishing format, the Android App Bundle , you can make your app smaller to download and install.
  
• Check out the 2018 Google Play Awards winners!
  
• Introducing Android Jetpack , a set of components and architectural guidance that make it quick and easy to build great Android apps.
  
• Android Studio 3.2 Canary is ready for download !
  
• Get started with Slices , new UI templates that display a rich array of dynamic and interactive content and controls from your app, across Android and within Google surfaces.
  
• Soon, you’ll be able to create App Actions by adding an Actions.xml file to your Android app and improve its discovery and re-engagement across multiple, billion-user Google products.
  
• Android Things 1.0 is now available! Check out the Android Things developer sessions from Google I/O 2018 and visit the  site to learn more.
  

Firebase / Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Firebase got several updates at I/O : Powerful machine learning APIs, easier diagnosis of performance issues, the expansion of Test Lab to iOS, and a number of improvements to Google Analytics. 

Web

• Subscribe to the new AMP Project newsletter to get the latest product news and updates!
• Check out all of the AMP announcements from I/O.

Misc

• New ways to make richer, more engaging Actions for the Google Assistant were announced at this year's I/O.
  
• Dialogflow API V2 and Enterprise Edition are now available.
  
• Flutter Beta 3  was launched at Google I/O 2018 and courses and learning materials are now available including  Flutter Codelabs and a Udacity course . 
• Sao Paulo Launchpad Accelerator was officially launched, as well as the first Powered by Launchpad initiative in Manila .
  
• Sign up to learn about the Google Developers Community Groups program, as the team will be visiting university campuses and technology parks across 7 countries and 14 cities in Europe in a colorful community bus over the summer.