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TIMOTHY JORDAN: Hello, and welcome
to "The Developer Show."
This is your TLDR.
Learn to use the Google Play Developer Console
to understand how players are progressing, spending,
and churning with this new sample game.
Produced with the help from Auxbrain, developer
of Zombie Highway 2, it uses randomized and anonymized data
from a real game.
If you use Google+ features with your Play Games Permission,
check out this blog post for changes that could impact you.
We're taking steps to reduce sign
in friction and unnecessary permission requests
by moving the game's APIs to a new model.
Android Marshmallow introduced several changes
that were designed to help your app look after user data.
To help you make use of those changes,
this post highlights the key considerations for user trust
when it comes to run time permissions and hardware
identifiers.
Check it out.
Now if you're a student who loves to code
or has a great idea for a mobile app,
the AdMob student challenge is your chance to build an app,
learn how to make money from it, and win awesome prizes, which
include a week long trip to San Francisco and a visit
to the Googleplex.
App Invites is an out of the box solution
for conducting app referrals and encouraging sharing.
Here's some details on how two apps, Fabulous and Yummly used
App Invites to grow their user base.
Also in the case study category, it turns out design matters.
Check out this new video with Wego
and learn how they increased monthly user retention by 300%,
and reduced uninstall rates by up to 25% with Material Design.
Now this is a really cool article
from Google Research on mastering the ancient game
of Go with machine learning.
Using a single machine, AlphaGo one all but
one of its 500 games against several top Go programs.
So you know, they went ahead and challenged the reigning three
time European Go champion, an elite professional player
who has devoted his life to Go since the age of 12.
Check out the article to see how that match turned out.
Cloud9 is a development environment in the cloud.
And you can now easily create a new Cloud9 workspace
connected with a Google Cloud Platform project.
It comes preinstalled with the Cloud SDK and G Cloud command
line tool, and allows you to build and deploy
your app to Google App Engine directly within the IDE.
The Chrome 48 beta includes a new security panel
and dev tools that makes deploying HTTPS easier.
The security panel displays connection information
for every network request, demystifying the connection
errors that keep you away from the green lock that
represents a secure connection.
Oh, and if you didn't know already,
Android Studio is faster.
Here's Reto Meier to tell you more.
RETO MEIER: Hey, get back to work.
MALE SPEAKER: Building and deploying.
RETO MEIER: Oh.
Well, then download Android Studio 2.0,
and your incremental builds will be instant.
MALE SPEAKER: Who's doing what now?
RETO MEIER: Don't let this happen to you.
I'm Reto Meier, and this is "Who's Doing What Now?"
As developers, we all know that the number one
excuse for legitimately slacking off
is building and deploying your app.
Until now, hitting build and run was an opportunity
to take a break, grab some coffee, catch up on the news,
or look at some cats.
Now thanks to the Android Studio team,
those glory days are over.
Android Studio 2.0 has arrived with a new incremental
build feature, which makes your builds now take
seconds instead of minutes.
When you first run your app, the normal compile,
dx, package, deploy, install, and run
steps all happen as normal, though much faster
thanks to significant improvements
to dx, ProGuard, shrinker, and adb.
From then on, pressing Instant Run
will deploy your changes directly into the running app.
And Android Studio will update your application logic
and resources.
So you can see the changes appear near instantly.
This feature is designed to be magical.
So you stay in the flow while coding, building,
and running your app.
No more breaks in concentration, waiting around,
or switching contexts.
It works with the emulator, physical devices,
and it works all the way back to API 15.
Developers reducing their average build and deploy
cycles, staying in the zone, and increasing productivity--
that's "Who's Doing What Now."
Get back to work.
MALE SPEAKER: Running the test suite.
RETO MEIER: Oh, carry on.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: And that's your "Developer Show" for this week.
Remember to use the hashtag, #AskDevShow
to get your questions answered.
And don't forget to subscribe to this channel
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I'm Timothy Jordan, and I'll see you next time.
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