Newsletter - December 2022

Android / Google Play

• See the highlights from 2022, and what Google Play is doing to help your business grow.
• Prepare your mobile game for Ramadan, starting March 22, 2023, with insights into the holy month and best practices for connecting with your Muslim players.
  
• Read Change The Game’s newest white paper and learn about key opportunity spaces to better serve female mobile gamers.

Firebase / Flutter

• Join the Firebase Alpha Program to get the latest updates in 2023.
  
• See Firebase’s official Flutter documentation to support deeper integration, now generally available.
  
• Learn how Flutter is preparing for the Dart 3 release which only supports null safety, and get a preview of the new features.

Google Cloud / Google Maps Platform

• Explore 12 ways for developers to learn, build, and grow with Google Workspace.
  
• Build with cards-based UIs for Google Chat apps.
  
• Manage Google Workspace APIs with ease using the Google Cloud Console.
  
• Learn how Asana leveraged the Google Workspace platform to bring value to its customers.
  
• Check out the winners from the latest Google Maps Platform Hackathon.
• Announcing new fields in the Places API including wheelchair accessible entrance, special opening hours, takeout, delivery, and reservations.

ML / AI

• Check out what’s new in TensorFlow 2.11.
  
• Create innovative on-device ML solutions easily with Mediapipe.
  
• Discover resources to build production-ready recommendation systems with TensorFlow libraries and tools.
  
• Learn about Simple ML for Sheets, a beta add-on that lets anyone experiment and apply some of the power of ML to their data in Google Sheets with just a few clicks.
  
• Watch the sessions from the Women in Machine Learning Symposium to learn the latest tools and techniques from Google.

Miscellaneous / Open Source

• Learn how Android devs can offer the best experiences across a variety of form factors by tailoring their apps to ChromeOS and larger screens.
  
• Catch up on the stats from the 1,054 Google Summer of Code 2022 contributors and prepare to apply for the 2023 program by February.
  
• Read more about the OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 Conformant Program announcement from Google Open Source.

Web

• Watch Chrome’s Year in Review video featuring highlights of 2022.
  
• Read the last Chrome Dev Insider of the year featuring Parisa Tabriz, VP of Chrome.
  
• Get up to speed on web Accessibility with new content and learning material.
  
• Check out the entire series of what landed on the web platform across browsers in 2022.

Developer Community / BIPOC Partner Highlights

• Apply to the Tech Equity Collective Impact Fund by December 31 for a chance to get monetary support - US organizations that provide programming for aspiring Black tech professionals are eligible.
  
• Join a DevFest near you to connect with local developers, learn from Google tech experts, and accelerator your skills.
  
• Sign up for the new Google Developers Online Discord server to meet, network, share, and support each other.
  
• Don't miss the chance to participate in Google for Startups Accelerator Japan - apply by January 31.
  
• Share your open source project to the Google Dev Library, get inspired, and learn from others