Google's Games Developer Summit, an online free event for developers, publishers, and advertisers, was held yesterday. At the event, Google launched new tools, updated old ones, and released new features and resources. More: - Google rolled out the beta of Google Play Games for PC in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
- Android Game Development Extension (AGDE) gets support for cross-compatibility between Android Studio and Visual Studio.
- AGDE also includes the Memory Advice API library beta to understand memory consumption and the Android GPU Inspector to understand performance issues.
- Google kicked off the Play Partner Program for games to provide growth tools and premium services for large-scale developers.
- Clean Chat, a new open-source AI framework for gaming studios, will enable developers to detect negative dialog in text or chat.
- Steam for ChromeOS is coming for select models. However, Google did not disclose the timeline.
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The development team at Go announced the release of version 1.18 with new features and performance improvements. Go 1.17 was released in August last year, and the first beta of 1.18 (the most downloaded Go beta ever) was released on Dec. 14. More: - Go 1.18 introduces support for generic code using parameterized types. Subsequent releases will provide additional support for more complicated generic use cases.
- The development team also released a tutorial on how users could get started with the most requested feature by Go developers.
- The latest release comes with fuzzing fully integrated into the standard toolchain to enable developers to identify inputs that could crash a program.
- The Go workspace mode aims to make it easy for developers to work with multiple modules.
- 1.18 also includes CPU performance improvements of up to 20% for Apple M1, ARM 64, and PowerPC64 users.
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WebKit announced 70 new additions, including new web technologies, updates, and fixes. The announcement coincided with the release of Safari 15.4 along with iOS and iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3 on Monday. More: - WebKit added lazy-loading images with the loading attribute that will load images only when the user scrolls to its vicinity.
- Support for <dialog> element and ::backdrop pseudo-element allows bringing up dialog boxes and subwindows and adding a background color behind the dialog box.
- New CSS features include support for :has () pseudo-class, cascade layers, and CSS containment for all types with the contain property.
- Other additions include upgrades to Web APIs, new features and updates to JavaScript, and more.
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Android is providing app developers with better vital data and analytics through the new Play Developer Reporting API. Any developer with an account in Play Console can access the new API from the API Access Page. More: - The initial launch provides access to crash rate, ANR rate, excessive wake-up rate, stuck background wake-lock rate, crash and ANR issues, breakdowns, and three years of metric history.
- The new API enables developers to build internal dashboards, join with other datasets for deeper analysis, and automate troubleshooting and releases.
- Android recommends developers check for data freshness and verify the availability of new data before issuing a query to avoid wasting request quota.
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The Linux Foundation and The Cloud Native Computing Foundation launched Cloud Native Developer Bootcamp in collaboration. The bootcamp can be completed in six months with 10-15 hours of work every week. More: - The Bootcamp aims to educate participants with skills to design, build, and deploy cloud-native applications.
- Modules in the program include an introduction to open-source software management, DevOps and SRE fundamentals, Kubernetes and Containers for developers, and more.
- Upon completion, participants will receive a verifiable certificate and an online badge.
- The bootcamp is available at an introductory price of $665 till March 22.
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New Tools and Updates: - Apps submitted to the App Store from April 25 should be developed with Xcode 13, including the SDKs for iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and watchOS 8.
- Redis Ltd. announced RedisJSON 2.0 with full support for JavaScript Object Notation, native indexing, querying, and full-text search capabilities for JSON documents.
- Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 594 to remove dead batteries from the standard library has been approved.
- King's College in London launched Strype, a frame-based tool that enables developers to write Python code with drag-drop features.
- JetBrains Ktor 1.6.8 was released with a security bug fix.
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 |  | Sudarshan lives in Toronto, Canada, and is an engineering graduate. He is passionate about business, tech, entrepreneurship, and politics. FUN FACT: Sudarshan worked for the election campaign teams of two heads of state in India. When he is not busy with work, he enjoys hiking, playing cricket, and cooking. | | | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 Ford. | |
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