Announcing Indie Games Accelerator for Asia gaming startups

Get more details & apply here → http://bit.ly/2KlNOW9

We’re very excited to launch Indie Games Accelerator, a four month program for top indie game startups in select Asian countries. Successful participants will receive personalized mentorship from Google and industry experts, invites to exclusive events, and other benefits to supercharge their growth on Android.

#playindie #googleplay #androiddev

Future proof your subscriptions business on Google Play

Less code, more features → http://bit.ly/2trFfCY

We continuously aim to make it easier for you to build great subscriptions products that users love. In this post, Niko Schröer (BD at Google Play) takes you through the new tools and features to improve your business today and tomorrow.

Android Things client library for Google Cloud IoT Core

Read our blog post → http://bit.ly/2Kbi9XL

We’re releasing a client library to make it easy to use Google Cloud IoT Core from Android Things devices. With just a few lines of code, you can easily connect to the IoT Core MQTT bridge, authenticate the device, publish device telemetry and state, subscribe to configuration changes, and handle errors.

Join the discussion in our Google+ community → http://bit.ly/2K82rfL #AndroidThings #IoTCore

Better Biometrics in Android P

Learn more on the blog → http://bit.ly/2MMASKM

Android is combining secure design principles, a more attacker-aware measurement methodology, and an easy to use biometrics API to both simplify and strengthen how we authenticate our digital identity.

Helping your subscriptions succeed on Google Play

Learn about the new features and tools → http://bit.ly/2K3pacM

Subscriptions on Google Play continue to see huge growth, with subscribers growing over 80% year over year. In this post we’ll take you through several new and highly requested features, including the new subscriptions center and the ability to change price without having to set up a completely new SKU.

Security metadata now being added to APKs

Learn more → http://bit.ly/2MF6q5l

Today we’ve started adding security metadata on top of new or updated apps on Google Play. This metadata will help us determine app authenticity, present new distribution opportunities for Android developers, and help more users keep their apps up to date.

"It's really a wonderful feeling to make something that makes a difference to other people."

Watch Hans Jørgen Wiberg's #IMakeApps story & share yours → http://bit.ly/2JR3FQz

We are celebrating the amazing people who create apps and games. So we're going around the world finding out what you do when you step away from your computers.

Learn more about #IMakeApps stories on the blog → http://bit.ly/2JH0Lh1

#Kotlin makes code easier to read with extension methods and lambdas, but how do they work? Learn more about them through a case study of "maxBy"

Read the blog here ↓ http://bit.ly/2Mqn9cc

I/O '18 Guide - Google Play

Watch here → http://bit.ly/2JAGhXe

Changes are coming to the Play Console to help developers improve productivity, app quality and business performance. Florina Muntenescu talks to Matt Henderson at the #io18 Sandbox about the new app model, the new testing features and more.