Introducing Project IDX, An Experiment to Improve Full-stack, Multiplatform App Development Posted by Bre Arder, UX Research Lead, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Product Lead, Ashwin Raghav Mohan Ganesh, Engineering Lead, Erin Kidwell, Director of Engineering, and Roman Nurik, Design Lead These days, getting an app from zero to production – especially one that works well across mobile, web, and desktop plat

Posted by Christian Schalk, Developer Advocate Building on the power of Google Forms For the first time, Google Forms has an API and we are going to show you how you can use it and what’s in it. The new Google Forms API joins the large family of APIs available to developers under the Google Workspace Platform. The Forms API provides programmatic access for managing forms, acting on responses, and

Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail Our next generation of Flutter, built for web, mobile, and desktop Today, we’re announcing Flutter 2: a major upgrade to Flutter that enables developers to create beautiful, fast, and portable apps for any platform. With Flutter 2, you can use the same codebase to ship native apps to five operating systems: iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux; as well as we

Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail Posted by Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist; Grant Erickson, Principal Engineer; Kevin Po, Product Manager Google is announcing Project Connected Home over IP, a new Working Group alongside industry partners such as Amazon, Apple and the Zigbee Alliance (separate from the existing Zigbee 3.0/PRO protocol). The project aims to build a new s

Introducing new APIs to improve augmented reality development with ARCore Posted by Clayton Wilkinson, Developer Platforms Engineer Today, we're releasing updates to ARCore, Google's platform for building augmented reality experiences, and to Sceneform, the 3D rendering library for building AR applications on Android. These updates include algorithm improvements that will let your apps consume les

Posted by Jonathan Huang, Senior Product Manager, Google AR/VR Since we first launched Daydream, developers have responded by creating virtual reality (VR) experiences that are entertaining, educational and useful. Today, we're announcing a new set of experimental features for developers to use on the Lenovo Mirage Solo—our standalone Daydream headset—to continue to push the platform forward. Here

Introducing .app, a more secure home for apps on the web Posted By Ben Fried, VP, CIO, & Chief Domains Enthusiast Today we're announcing .app, the newest top-level domain (TLD) from Google Registry. A TLD is the last part of a domain name, like .com in “www.google.com” or .google in “blog.google”. We created the .app TLD specifically for apps and app developers, with added security to help you sho

Posted by Barry Rosenberg, Google Engineering Education Team Today, we're happy to share our Machine Learning Crash Course (MLCC) with the world. MLCC is one of the most popular courses created for Google engineers. Our engineering education team has delivered this course to more than 18,000 Googlers, and now you can take it too! The course develops intuition around fundamental machine learning co

Posted by Laurence Moroney, Developer Advocate We're delighted to announce that TensorFlow 1.5 is now public! Install it now to get a bunch of new features that we hope you'll enjoy! Eager Execution for TensorFlow First off, Eager Execution for TensorFlow is now available as a preview. We've heard lots of feedback about the programming style of TensorFlow, and how developers really want an imperat

Posted by Reto Meier & Colt McAnlis: Developer Advocates Ever found yourself trying to figure out the right way to combine mobile, cloud, and web technologies, only to be lost in the myriad of available offerings? It can be challenging to know the best way to combine all the options to build products that solve problems for your users. That's why we created Build Out, a new YouTube series where re

How Machine Learning with TensorFlow Enabled Mobile Proof-Of-Purchase at Coca-Cola In this guest editorial, Patrick Brandt of The Coca-Cola Company tells us how they're using AI and TensorFlow to achieve frictionless proof-of-purchase. Coca-Cola's core loyalty program launched in 2006 as MyCokeRewards.com. The "MCR.com" platform included the creation of unique product codes for every Coca-Cola, Sp

Posted by The TensorFlow Team Datasets and Estimators are two key TensorFlow features you should use: Datasets: The best practice way of creating input pipelines (that is, reading data into your program). Estimators: A high-level way to create TensorFlow models. Estimators include pre-made models for common machine learning tasks, but you can also use them to create your own custom models. Below y

By the XLA team within Google, in collaboration with the TensorFlow team One of the design goals and core strengths of TensorFlow is its flexibility. TensorFlow was designed to be a flexible and extensible system for defining arbitrary data flow graphs and executing them efficiently in a distributed manner using heterogenous computing devices (such as CPUs and GPUs). But flexibility is often at od

Modernizing OAuth interactions in Native Apps for Better Usability and Security Posted by William Denniss, Product Manager, Identity and Authentication The Identity team is constantly striving to help Google users sign-in to third-party applications with their Google account in a secure and seamless way, and enable users to share select information from their account such as their calendar or cont

Editor’s Note: This blog post was amended to remove the term “AMP Lite”. This was a code name for a project to make AMP better for slow networks but many readers interpreted this as a separate version of AMP. We apologize for the confusion. At Google we believe in designing products with speed as a core principle. The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) format helps ensure that content reliably loads f

Posted by Derek Murray, Software Engineer Today we are launching preliminary Windows support for TensorFlow. Native support for TensorFlow on Windows was one of the first requests we received after open-sourcing TensorFlow. Although some Windows users have managed to run TensorFlow in a Docker container, we wanted to provide a more complete experience including GPU support. With the release of Ten

Posted by Xiangye Xiao and Bob Jung, Internationalization A big challenge in sharing digital information around the world is “tofu”—the blank boxes that appear when a computer or website isn’t able to display text: ⯐. Tofu can create confusion, a breakdown in communication, and a poor user experience. Five years ago we set out to address this problem via the Noto—aka “No more tofu”—font project. T

A final farewell to ClientLogin, OAuth 1.0 (3LO), AuthSub, and OpenID 2.0 Posted by William Denniss, Product Manager, Identity and Authentication Support for ClientLogin, OAuth 1.0 (3LO1), AuthSub, and OpenID 2.0 has ended, and the shutdown process has begun. Clients attempting to use these services will begin to fail and must be migrated to OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect immediately. To migrate a si

Introducing gRPC, a new open source HTTP/2 RPC Framework Today, we are open sourcing gRPC, a brand new framework for handling remote procedure calls. It’s BSD licensed, based on the recently finalized HTTP/2 standard, and enables easy creation of highly performant, scalable APIs and microservices in many popular programming languages and platforms. Internally at Google, we are starting to use gRPC