Newsletter - December 2021

Android / Google Play

• Preview  the integration guide for the new Play Integrity API, to be released in 2022.
  
• Now  available: Develop watch faces with the stable Jetpack Watch Face library.
  
• View  the top three things to know for Modern Android Development.
  
• Watch   What’s new for large screens and foldables in Android and ChromeOS.
  
• Read  lessons on how to improve App Startup experiences, drive user engagement, and adoption from the Facebook Android app.
  

Firebase / Google Cloud

• Automate  your pre-release testing with the App Distribution REST API.
  
• Catch  up on the latest announcements, sessions, demos, pathways, and more from Firebase Summit.
  
• Get  started with Datastream, Google Cloud’s serverless change data capture (CDC) and replication service.
  
• See  what you missed from Cloud Learn, a new interactive learning event with technical demos, Q&As, career development workshops, and more.
  
• Watch   This Week in Cloud to learn about the releases, updates, and events around Google Cloud. 

ML / AI

• Introducing  TensorFlow Graph Neural Networks, a new library to make it easy to work with graph structured data.
  
• Meet  the 2021 TensorFlow Contributor Awardees.
  
• Read  an introduction to Keras preprocessing layers.
  
• Learn  about continuous adaptation for machine learning systems to data changes.
  
• Detect  crown-of-thorns starfish in underwater image data in TensorFlow’s latest Kaggle challenge.

Open Source and Misc

• See  what's new in the 6.0 version of the Maps  and Places  SDKs for iOS. This version contains preview support for XCFrameworks and a new marker animation type. For 6.0, the new minimum supported iOS version is 12.
  
• Add  App Actions to personalize app user journeys by pushing Dynamic Shortcuts to Assistant.
  
• Watch  how to design custom silicon with the same workflow used to build software with Bazel.
  
• Grow  your skills and prepare for the newest Flutter challenge before free access ends on January 6, 2022. More details coming soon.
  
• Discover  the redesigned Flutter website, learn about its multi-platform support and developer tools, and more.

Web

• Read  about the latest launch of Full Accessibility tree in Chrome DevTools.
  
• Catch  Designcember, a month-long celebration of web design from the Chrome Developers team. Get one treat a day like videos, podcasts, and exciting demos.
  
• Available  now: See the latest enhancements from Angular v13.
  
• Review  the final update on Compat 2021, an effort to eliminate browser compatibility problems.
  
• Learn  how YouTube gave its Premium users offline access through a Progressive Web App.
  

Developer Community / BIPOC Partner Highlights

• Read  how Google Developer Groups in Shanghai helped a developer grow his skills and network.
  
• See  how a team from the Solution Challenge launched an environmentally-focused social enterprise.
  
• Meet  Google Developer Expert (GDE) Joel Humberto Gómez and learn why his favorite Google Maps Platform features are inspiring him to create a podcast about Maps.
  
• Learn  from Krupal Modi, a GDE in Machine Learning from India. Explore how he used ML for a COVID-19 helpline to assist the country in scheduling of vaccinations.
  
• Watch   Founder Fridays in 2021, a compilation of highlights celebrating founder growth, international expansion, improving data insights with Google Cloud, and scaling sales impact.