Newsletter - March 2022

Android / Google Play

• Watch th e Google for Games Developer Summit key note highlights, catch up on mobile, cloud, and infrastructure sessions on-demand, and read all the announcements.
• Access Android vital s through the new Play Developer Reporting API.
• Hear  what's new with the Android Game Development Kit.
• Expand your reach, engagement, and ROI with Google Play Games on PC.
• See what’s new for ga mes in Reach and devices as well as Android vitals.
• Get the roundup of tools to ad apt Android apps for ChromeOS.

Firebase / Google Cloud

• Catch up on the innovations developers got last year wi th the Google Workspace Platform.
• Learn what you can build with the Google Forms API in this video.
• Watch how to build a facility inspections tracker with AppSheet.
• Build successful Add-ons for Google Workspace.
• Read how Canadian fintech startu p Paperstack uses Google Cloud to bring working capital and financial insights to e-commerce sellers.
• Hear a live panel with experts f rom Google, Docker, VMware, and RedHat to learn about the past and future of container runtimes on the Kubernetes project.
• Get up to a 40% discount on Cloud Spanner compu te capacity prices when you commit to using it continuously for a year or longer.

ML / AI

• Reduce Android APK size and improve performance by running TensorFlow Lite models vi a GooglePlay Services API, now in Beta.
• Contribute to TensorFlow and JAX through Google Summer of Code 2022 – a pplications open April 4.
• Explore what a natural language model li ke BERT "kno ws" about the world.
• Try a TensorFlow Lite video classification example application on Android.
• See highlights fr om TensorFlow's ExploreCSR 2021 programs focuse d on data science and programming.

Google Maps Platform

• See how the CARTO platform enables the creation of advanced data visualizatio ns with Google Maps Platform and deck.gl.
• Simplify adding a map to apps with Jetpack Compose using the open source Maps Compose library for the Maps SDK for Android.
• Use t he Maps JavaScript API-specifi c ESLint plugin to improve code and find issues before deploying.
• Announcing full support fo r the Maps JavaScript API vector map in the open source deck.gl vis ualization framework.
• Watch React dev eloper Leigh Halliday's crash cou rse in React with Google Maps Platform or sta rt with the five-minute version .
• Learn about recent improvements to 45 ° tilt imagery for the Maps JavaScript API. See how to use it at varying zoom levels.

Open Source and Misc

• Get Go 1.18, the bigg est release so far including support for generics, native fuzzing, a new workspace mode, and large performance improvements for certain machines.
• Sign up fo r Go Hack, a hackat hon focused on accelerating science by building projects with Go (golang), held by Google and CERN.

Web

• Discover new features in stable and beta web browsers during February 2022.
• See what's ne w in Chrome 99.
• Learn abo ut Interop 2022, a ma jor cross-browser initiative aimed at solving web interoperability.
• Read about the latest set of feature updates that have co me to Canvas 2D.
• Check out this fun timeline of "100 Cool Web Moment s" as Chrome la unches its 100th release.
• See what's new in DevTools (Chrome 100).

Developer Community / BIPOC Partner Highlights

• Find a #ProgressNotPerfection event to celebrate International Women’s Day with Women Techmakers and Google Developer Groups throughout March a nd April.
  
• Join Founder Fridays on April 8 for Founding a Company Early: A Fireside for Future Founders , co-hosted with Google Developer Student Clubs.
• Get tips from Google Developer Groups Bulgaria organi zer Sofia Lyateva on building a diverse and inclusive dev community, empowering women in tech, and organizing the best hybrid event for your community.
• Now open : Experienced community organizers may now apply to the Women Techmakers Ambassador program.