Today is all about Google. They dropped a ton of news at I/O. First, Firebase is becoming a unified app platform. Android is getting Instant Apps. There is a bunch of new information for Android including more details of the N-release and Android Studio. Firebase Analytics are being added to Google Analytics. This would normally be enough, but the rest of the news is huge. Allo, Duo and Assistant are the big news. Allo is a new smart messaging platform. Duo is Google’s take on FaceTime. Assistant is the new version of Google Now, and it is behind a lot of their new technology.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
- Firebase expands to become a unified app platform | Google Developers Blog
- Introducing Android Instant Apps | Android Developers Blog
- What’s new in Android: the N-Release, Virtual Reality, Android Studio 2.2 and more | Android Developers Blog
- Firebase and Google Cloud: better together | Google Cloud Platform
- Introducing Firebase Analytics | Google Analytics
- Allo and Duo: new apps for smart messaging and video calling | Official Google Blog
- I/O: Building the next evolution of Google | Official Google Blog
Startups, Career and Process
- Try On The Decision For 30 Days | Feld Thoughts
- Lean Funding | noop.nl
- The Third Wave of Agile | DZone Agile
Design and Development
- The Basics of Akka | DZone Java
- A new mobile friendly testing tool | Google Webmaster Central
- NPM module Browser-Sync in Java / Web projects | Java Code Geeks
- Mocking File Inputs in JavaScript and Ember.js | Intuo Engineering
- Getting started with scala-native | Java Code Geeks
- A Python Ate My GUI | tryexceptpass
- Logging Into a Spring Boot/Elide JSON API Server | DZone Integration
- Building better mobile apps for work | Android Developers Blog
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip | Google Cloud Platform
- The Sigmoid Function in Logistic Regression | Karl Rosaen
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Docker Tutorial for Beginners | Java Code Geeks
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Avoiding XSS Detection | Fooling the Interpreter
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1686 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – May 17, 2016 (#2253) | Morning Dew
