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SLAVA PANASENKO: I'm Slava for "The Developer Show."
This is your weekly update on the coolest developer
news from Google.
The best thing about Firebase is its developer community.
To celebrate our developer community,
we started a new series called Firebase Stories where
you will hear from the developers and founders
from around the world about their app development journeys
and using Firebase tools.
The first couple stories are already
available on our website.
Check out the link in the description
to learn how FAVES is simplifying apparel purchasing
using Firebase Real-time database
and how MOIA is redefining mobility in the cities.
Last but not least, we want to hear
from all members of our community, including you.
Use the hashtag #firebasestories on social channels
to share how Firebase empowers you throughout your app
development journey.
The Indie Games Festival shines a spotlight
on some of the best games on Google Play
and celebrates the passion and creativity
that small game studios bring to gamers worldwide.
We announced the list of finalists
in Europe, Japan, and South Korea.
We also want to invite you to attend the Festival
finals on September 3.
The finals will be held in a custom virtual world where
you can meet the people behind the finalist games,
explores the titles, have fun with gamers
from around the world, and be the first to discover
the winners.
Speaking about games, you might remember earlier this year
Flutter team announced the Flutter Casual Games Toolkit.
The Flutter Casual Games Toolkit includes Firebase Crashlytics,
which is a powerful crash reporting solution that
helps you detect, track, prioritize, and fix issues
in real-time.
The Crashlytics dashboard allows you to visualize issues
in your code, see how many users are affected,
and figure out which lines of code are causing them.
Learn how with Rich Hall in his new article on Flutter Medium.
We're excited to announce the Google Universal Image
Embedding Challenge, hosted by Kaggle in collaboration
with Google Research and Google Lens.
In this challenge, we asked participants
to build a single, universal, image embedding
model capable of representing objects
from multiple domains at the instance level.
We believe that this is a key for real world visualization
search applications, such as augmenting cultural exhibits
in a museum, organizing photo collections, visual commerce,
and more.
The challenge was launched on Kaggle in July
and will be open until October, with cash prizes totaling
$50,000.
The winning teams will be invited
to present their methods at the Instance Level Recognition
workshop at ECCV 2022.
And to help you warm up to the Kaggle challenge,
I'd like to mention a new article on TensorFlow
blog by Dinko Franceschi.
Dinko shares an easy-to-follow walkthrough
of how to get started with a Kaggle notebook
using TensorFlow decision forests.
The coolest part is that you can implement
a decision forest in TensorFlow with just a few lines of code.
Decision trees are easy to process and understand
compared to neural networks.
Moreover, this relatively simple model
often outperforms in neural network
on many Kaggle problems.
Learn more on TensorFlow blog.
To learn more about all of this week's stories,
make sure to check the description
box below for all the links.
Please remember to like, subscribe, share,
and stay safe.
I'm Slava for "The Developer Show."
Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next week.
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