Newsletter - December 2020

Android / Google Play

• Announcing Android Studio Arctic Fox and AGP 7.0, the next major release for the Android Gradle plugin. 
  
• Learn how to get Modern Android Development (MAD) skills and become an Android App Bundle expert.
• Check out this guide to developing and optimizing an effective retention strategy that keeps your users coming back - based on app developer case studies.
• Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is migrating to Bazel. There is no immediate impact to the Android Platform build workflow or the existing supported tools in 2020 or 2021. Read more.

ChromeOS

• Visit ChromeOS.dev to learn how to get your web app discovered and collect payments on Google Play.
  
• Watch how Adobe Spark optimized a full-featured desktop website into a Progressive Web App (PWA) for Chromebooks.
  
• See how Corel’s Gravit Designer’s PWA users are 2.5x more likely to purchase Gravit Designer PRO.
• Read how Clipchamp⁠'s video editor PWA increased performance and retention on ChromeOS.

Firebase / Google Cloud

• Free to all users, Dataform is joining Google Cloud. See how to deploy data transformations with SQL in BigQuery now. 
  
• See new updates for App Script IDE and code editor -  available now.
  
• Prepare for the Google Cloud certification most suited to your role by Dec. 31. Practice with six weeks of learning paths to help you pass certifications like the Professional Machine Learning certification and more. 
  
• Watch on demand to hear about the Google Cloud certification process from leaders at Twitter and Home Depot. Get exam tips, learning paths, programs, and tools to prepare for your certification exam. 
• Register for the Virtual API Jamathon on demand to advance API management skills. Learn best practices through demos and labs to better design, secure, publish, and analyze APIs.

ML / AI / TensorFlow

• Explore the new #quantumAI website and check out the quantum algorithms with the new qsim simulator. 
  
• Learn how researchers can now use qsim to analyze quantum algorithms. 
  
• Announcing ML Kit’s new Entity Extraction API. Improve your app’s user experience by understanding text and performing specific actions on it.
• See how YouTube and Google Creative Lab built the world’s first infinite AI music video experiment to combine thousands of Billie Eilish covers: Infinite Bad Guy.

Web

• Check out the Chrome Developer Summit 2020 announcements and view the sessions anytime on the Google Developers YouTube channel.
  
• Watch how the new virtual conference experience Chrome Dev Summit Adventure was built.
• Sign up for the web.dev newsletter to get all the latest updates in your inbox.

Developer Community / BIPOC Partner Highlights

• See how Google Developers celebrated Computer Science Education Week, Dec 7-13. Students and teachers - check out the collection of introductory developer resources and demos.
  
• Watch the Best of First Fridays Google for Startups 2020 compilation on demand to celebrate this year’s startup community. 
• Meet developers near you and around the world on the Google Developer Groups virtual event platform. Join a community of over 1,000 groups across 140 countries for meetups, learning, and networking.
• Tune into the Women Techmakers’ Spotlight series featuring Shweta, a leading data scientist and Google Developers Expert based in India.

Open Source and Misc

• Announcing sound null safety is available in beta for Dart and Flutter.
  
• Now open sourced: Check out new sample code from the Atheris Python Fuzzer. 
  
• Check out new content on Angular’s YouTube channel. Learn how to optimize runtime performance, use TensorFlow.js to control your UI, and more. 
  
• Introducing TypeScript support on Google Maps Platform: See recently added samples throughout documentation and in the JavaScript sample repo on GitHub.
• Listen to the new #WhereTheInternetLives podcast to learn about the early days of Google’s first data center design and how it set the stage for hyperscale facilities.