Newsletter - November 2018

Android / Google Play

• Android Dev Summit 2018 highlighted a number of new things, including support for a new form factor (Foldables), updates to Kotlin and Android Jetpack, a new beta release of Android Studio, as well as some new features to the Android App Bundle. Check out the recap .
• flutter.io has a new website. Check it out here .
• Flutter Live is coming up! Be sure to sign up for the LiveStream.
  

Firebase / Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• See announcements and updates from the Firebase Summit - including enterprise-grade support, new partnerships, and more .
  
• Find out how Apigee is being used to transform Chile’s healthcare system.
• Learn about Machine Learning for mobile developers through ML Kit. ML Kit can now take an image, recognize text, detect faces, scan barcodes, recognize landmarks, and label images.

Web

• Couldn’t make the Chrome Dev Summit? No sweat. Watch the keynote and session highlights and read about building a faster, smoother, capable Web here .
• Try the developer preview  of web packaging to improve URLs for AMP pages loaded from Google Search.

Misc

• Google.org launched the AI Impact Challenge , a $25M grant to organizations using AI to help address societal challenges. Winners will be announced at I/O ‘19.
• The Launchpad Startup Spotlight Playlist is now live on YouTube! Meet the people behind these startups and learn their stories as they use Launchpad to accelerate growth.
  
• Follow "The Lever," Launchpad's blog for Machine Learning best practices, and stay in the know on topics like Modular Machine Learning in Healthcare .
• Get insights from recent Launchpad Accelerator Africa Class 2 graduates, and learn about Class 3 applications and other global acceleration programs here .