Newsletter - May 2017

Edition #5 | May, 2017 ARCHIVE | SUBSCRIBE Google I/O 2017 This year’s developer event took place on May 17-19 in Mountain View, CA, USA. If you weren’t able to follow along in real-time, all of the session recordings are available on our Google Developers YouTube channel. You can also find the best moments from #io17 in our highlights video. Catch more product updates announced during I/O below! Session Recordings   Highlights Video Featured Videos Google I/O Guide: Inside scoop on #io17 Introduction to the Google Assistant SDK Web Developer Portrait Trailer Android At I/O we announced the release of the latest Android Studio 3.0 Canary build focusing on speed, smarts and Android platform support. We also took a historic first step to add a new programming language in Android Studio - Kotlin. Finally, we launched a preview of of the new Architecture Components and made Instant Apps publicly available for all developers. Check out this year's Google Play Award winners announced on day 2 of Google I/O! Firebase Missed I/O? Check out our blog post for a full recap of all the exciting updates to Firebase that launched earlier this month. And find some highlights below! Firebase Performance Monitoring is a new, free tool that helps you understand when your user experience is being impacted by poorly performing code or challenging network conditions. We've made a number of improvements to Google Analytics for Firebase (formerly known as Firebase Analytics), including sharing data with AdMob and custom parameter reporting. Phone authentication is now available in Firebase Authentication! We’ve taken a big first step towards open sourcing all of our SDKs. View our new repos on GitHub. Web Check out our roundup of everything you need to know about the mobile web from I/O. Test the new AMP-Bind component on your AMP site to provide greater page interactivity. AMP is now twice as fast on Google Search, with over 2B+ AMP pages created. Read more about AMP news announced at I/O. Misc Actions on Google Developer Challenge: A challenge for developers to build for the Assistant using Actions on Google. Learn how to build a robotic mocktail mixer with the Google Assistant SDK. AIY Projects is Google’s effort to help makers infuse projects with AI. Build and share intelligent devices that solve real world problems. Made by you with Google. In this year’s growth and monetization Google I/O keynote we announced new innovations to help you find new users as they browse the Google Play homepage new ad placements; acquire users that spend in your app with new bidding strategies in Universal App Campaigns; earn more with a brand new AdMob built to give you richer insights and faster ways to take action. A new batch of amazing startups has been selected for Class 4 of the Launchpad Accelerator. They’ll begin the 6-month acceleration program, starting with 2 weeks of bootcamp training at Google in Mountain View. Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 USA