The Developer Show 004 — Android for Work, Chrome Dev Summit, Web Developer Training

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2 min readDec 4, 2015

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Use containers to make your development and deployment simpler with the Google Cloud Platform. Google Container Engine and Google Container Registry recently got some enhancements to give you more options in managing container images and running services at scale.

Learn to be a Senior Web Developer with the Nanodegree Program just launched on Udacity. This course covers everything from Service Worker and Web Components to Gulp and other tools. Ido joined us on the show to talk more about this program.

Travel Time, one of the most powerful features from the consumer Google Maps experience, is now available in the Google Maps APIs so you can make your location-based apps even more relevant and useful for your users.
Tripping.com and Navagis used Google Maps APIs to improve UX and increase revenue and traffic by more than 2,000% over the past 12 months. Find out how you can also go plaid in this article written by the director of engineering at Tripping.com.

A full featured, open-source, sample Test Device Policy Controller is now available to help you test your Android for Work feature. You can configure it for all the Android for Work scenarios so you can test your feature on a single device without having to redeploy a policy each time. Rich was on the show to talk to us about why this is so useful.
The minimum purchase price for apps and in-app products on Google Play has been reduced; giving developers more flexibility to adapt their pricing options to better suit local consumers in the more than 190 countries where Google Play is available.
The second edition of “The Secrets to App Success on Google Play” is now available to help you discover the useful features, tips, and best practices that will help you grow a successful app or game business on Google Play.
New emulators, support for runtime permission checks, audio, and resource qualifiers for round. These are the awesome new updates to The Android Wear SDK for API 23, available now.

Both the Chrome Dev Summit and Android Dev Summit happened here in Mountain View and they were awesome. Don’t worry if you weren’t able to make it in person, all the videos are available online. I also managed to get some time at the Chrome Dev Summit with Darin Fisher and Paul Irish to talk about the future of the web, those interviews are both in this week’s show.