Newsletter - May 2020

Android / Google Play

• New episodes of the Apps, Games, & Insights podcast are now available. Listen to episode 5 : Navigating the complexity of building successful games and putting your players first . Tune into podcast 6 : Building apps for everyone; why inclusivity and accessibility truly matter.
  
• Read Android at large: how to bring optimized experiences to the big screen . Discover practical UX/UI tips and examples to create great apps for laptops, foldables, and tablets. 
  
• Listen to the latest episode of the Android Developers podcast, Building for larger screens and better game experiences . Guest Maximiliano Rodriguez, Platforms Operations Director at Gameloft, discusses benefits and challenges of taking games beyond mobile to reach players across devices and platforms.
  
• Review documentation to learn about Play Asset Delivery. With a small API footprint, customize how and when each asset pack is downloaded onto a device with three delivery modes. 
  
• Learn how to publish and submit an Instant Play game for your chance to be featured on the homepage of the Play Games app. 
  
• Get answers to common questions about app signing by Google Play, like how Google manages and protects your app’s signing key and uses it to sign your APKs for distribution. See more on Medium .
  
• See how CameraX helped Monzo, a banking service and app offering digital and mobile-only financial services, reduce over 9,000 lines of code and improve registration dropout. 
• Check out part 1 of a series to learn how to increase acquisition, engagement, and retention by improving the user journey for Google Play apps and games. This guide is for both mobile app developers and product managers.

Firebase / Google Cloud

• Available on mobile and web, the Geocoding API and Place Autocomplete for web, Android, and iOS now support plus codes as input. Plus codes are addresses for any location, enabling services to reach users everywhere, including places without road names or structures. See the blog and video to learn more.
• Join  Firebase Live , a new weekly web series starting June 9, consisting of helpful tips, technical tutorials and live Q&A. Tune in to grow your skills and connect with the Firebase team.
• Missed the two-day interactive webinar Cloud OnBoard ? Watch on-demand to get the latest from industry experts with hands-on experience to advance your career and expand your skill sets.
• Prepare for Google Cloud’s Professional Data Engineer Certification exam with this webinar for insights, tips, and tricks. 
• Register to earn your Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect, or Professional Data Engineer certification. Get free training offers and a 6-week learning path that guides you through your certification.
• Solve the puzzle for a chance to win $500 in Cloud credits. Test your skills on the BigQuery Weekly Data Challenge. Every week, Felipe Hoffa issues a new data challenge.

Flutter

• Watch here to learn how Nubank, an Accelerators alumni, used Flutter to help them unify their front-end development team on a single framework, enabling them to ship new features simultaneously on both iOS and Android. 
  
• Interested in using Flutter? Register for an introductory Flutter course by July 8 to receive lifetime access.  
• Announcing  the Dart 2.8 SDK Modern apps often depend on many packages, and keeping these dependencies up-to-date can be time-consuming. A new tool in version 2.8, pub outdated, scans which dependencies are stale and enables you to update them quickly.
  

Web

• Support for JSON-RPC and global HTTP batch endpoints is being deprecated. Support has been extended until Aug 12, 2020. Read more .

Developer Community

• Register here by June 3 to join the Google for Startups Canada discussion at the Digital First Fridays series . The next event, Learn How Startups Build, Innovate, and Solve with Google Cloud , is on June 5. 
• Learn how global Google Developer Group (GDG) and Developer Student Clubs (DSC) communities are supporting each other virtually to continue building local community connections.
• Tune in to Google Developer Ecosystem MENA Digital Days. In collaboration with 100+ communities in Middle East and North Africa, learn from talks and workshops featuring technologies, leadership, and programs. Check out the agenda and join the weekly challenge . 
• Save the date . On June 21-25, watch the Women’s Online Safety Hackathon , presented virtually by MENA communities. 
• Join and learn about a new online joint initiative, GDG Tech Sessions, from Google Developer Groups Europe organizers and Women Techmakers (WTM) Spain.
• Read about a later career success story from a forty-three-year-old Indonesian mother who shares how Google Developer Groups Bandung and #JuaraGCP inspired her journey.

Misc

• In response to COVID-19, read  how developers are using Coral to build new machine learning solutions that can understand and react in real-time. Learn about recent use cases from engineers, researchers, hospitals, and communities working to protect communities around the globe.