Wonderful Review | "Openness and Inclusiveness" Create the Future: Summary of Highlights of the 2021 Google Developers Conference

At present, the world needs to be connected to each other more than in the past. Just as at the 2021 Google Developers Conference with the theme of "Develop as One", Google demonstrated the value of "openness and inclusiveness" in all aspects, which is exactly the practice of working with developer partners to create opportunities and seek common development.

In 2021, the world needs to be connected to each other more than in the past. At the just-concluded 2021 Google Developers Conference, we saw the technical updates such as Android, Google Play and Wear OS by Google brought by the technology giant, as well as the "2021 Mobile Application Globalization Guide", Google Developers Online Courses, etc. A series of updates, and work with global partners to share Google's continuous exploration at the level of helping developers.

With the theme of "Develop as One", this conference will join hands with partners and developers from different industries around the world through online lectures to conduct more in-depth exchanges and discussions on topics such as technology empowerment ecology and successful experience of cohesive global expansion. Co-build a global ecosystem of "user experience first".

The content of the two-day conference covered 18 product lines, more than 70 technical presentations and more than 900 minutes of technical dry goods, all of which brought sincere and valuable sharing.

New Android / Web / Chrome OS technical features

In the past October, Google heavily updated the Android 12 system. The newly upgraded Android 12 brings us a smoother user interface, better development performance and stronger user privacy protection. At the 2021 Google Developers Conference, Google also further upgraded the new technology of the Android system.

First of all, there is the newly upgraded Android 12L-Google's special features for large-screen devices. Android 12L features can provide better services to users and developers of Android tablets, Chrome OS devices, and foldable devices that continue to grow.

The new design language Material You brings more personalized interface choices to users. Among them, Jetpack Compose 1.1 version has improved the API and provides many functions, such as stretch scrolling for Android 12, improved touch target size, and layout animation that is still in experiment.

The newly released Modern Android Development (MAD) has a distinctive personality and powerful functions. It includes the new Jetpack library, the checker in Android Studio (Android Studio Arctic Fox stable version toolkit) and Kotlin, which can effectively help development become fast and Concise, allowing developers to easily create high-quality applications that can run on billions of devices.

Google's newly announced Wear OS is simplified using Jetpack Compose, covering multiple versions and different APIs, which can help developers accelerate UI development, design high-quality applications, and significantly reduce the amount of code.

The upgrade of Google Play can help developers create applications that users love and trust, and achieve sustainable business development.

AR technology can facilitate the integration of the digital and the real world, bringing convenience to many scenes in our daily lives. At the 2021 Google Developers Conference, Google also showed the updates and data of ARCore by Google-there are more than 1 billion ARCore by Google certified devices worldwide.

Another bright spot that makes developers very excited is the Keras framework and TensorFlow Hub. They provide a variety of pre-trained models that can help developers easily get started, make development more time-saving and labor-saving, and help solve machine learning for various types of applications. problem.

The open source solution TFX not only greatly improves the efficiency of operation and management, but also is fair and inclusive. It provides integrated fairness indicators and privacy toolkits to achieve more responsible machine learning project practices.

The update of the key web page indicator Core Web Vitals can help developers better measure and continue to ensure the excellent performance of the website. Compared with a year ago, the number of Chrome page views that reached the threshold of key page indicators has increased by 20%.

The update of Firebase Crashlytics can track, categorize, and resolve crash issues faster after the app is released. Especially for game developers, a series of newly released NDK and Unity features help ensure the fast and stable operation of the game.

The stable version of Flutter 2.5 is now available, which can adapt to multi-platform solutions and further enhance the multi-platform experience.

The beta version supported by the DartPad package is officially released. Developers can directly import and use the most popular packages in DartPad to enhance the application development experience.

The stable version of the Flutter Google mobile ad plugin is officially released: it supports both AdMob and Ad Manager, and adds new features such as open-screen ads, adaptive size ads, and ad intermediary to help Flutter developers increase advertising revenue.

Google Developers Online Courses Launched

With the continuous update and iteration of technology and products, developers are also beginning to face more and more opportunities and challenges. As a trusted partner of developers around the world, Google provides developers with a full-service platform. From learning and developing knowledge to mastering a technology, to inspiring creativity and even creating a better world by hand, Google has always been committed to bringing more efficient personal skills enhancement and innovation to developers around the world to achieve more possibilities.

At the 2021 Google Developers Conference, Google for the first time brought developers a one-stop Chinese learning resource created by the product team-Google Developer Online Courses.

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The Google Developer Online Course is a free Chinese online course created by the Google product team. It contains 80+ articles, 110+ video in-depth analysis, 170+ guided programming exercises (Codelab), and covers 10+ Google products or services. Developers can use step-by-step courses to learn knowledge at their own pace and improve their development skills step by step.

10+ Google products or services covered by the Google Developer Online Courses, including Android, TensorFlow, Flutter, Web, etc., provide multi-dimensional learning resources, allowing developers to freely choose according to their professional direction or interests, in-depth study or expand more Skill.

Share cross-border ways to go to sea and build a global ecosystem

In today's globalization trend, Google, as a platform partner that helps domestic developers and entrepreneurs shine on the world stage, is centering on the theme of "Develop as One", providing developers with comprehensive support and services from all dimensions. Facilitate the growth of partners and build a global technology ecosystem.

In the session of "The Way to Go Global by Google and Pan-Industry Partners-Growth, Innovation and Future", technology partners from all walks of life and at different stages of development and Google Play’s business development leaders talked freely about the company’s global presence In the market, how to continuously create outstanding products for today and the future, and seek growth and innovation.

At the meeting, Meng Hao, vice president of the mobile application industry of Google's China Key Account Department, also released and shared in-depth the "Google 2021 Mobile Application Globalization Guide". The "2021 Mobile Application Globalization Guide" jointly launched by Google, Roland Berger and Grand Capital, provides forward-looking trend analysis and rich overseas cases, and provides a strategic blueprint for overseas expansion of Chinese developers.

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In addition to providing strategies and programs, talent training is also an important part of Google's support for the development of overseas companies. The Grow with Google growth plan launched by Google in China aims to create a free digital skills training program for Chinese students.

At the roundtable forum on the 19th, Google also invited Wu Zengzheng, general manager of the overseas business department of Kingsoft Office, Yang Yi, co-founder and COO of Tuya Smart, and Chen Shanshan, head of overseas business of China Reading Group, to jointly empower companies to go overseas and overseas. The current situation of market expansion and other issues were discussed and exchanged.

In the discussion with the guests, Zhao Yijiang, the head of business development for Google Play in Mainland China, said: "Google firmly believes that through technology and ecological empowerment, we will continue to work with partners from all walks of life to build a developer ecosystem and achieve growth. And innovation, Develop as One".

In the sharing session of "Embrace Diversified Players and Deepen Global Going to Sea", Google Play Greater China Game Strategy Leader Tang Jiali and Habby's Overseas Business Development Director Srikant Varadaraj, and IGG's "Time and Space Princess" planner Li Mei conducted in-depth discussions On-site communication.

Based on the actual industry experience, the three shared how game companies continue to shape the image of inclusive multiculturalism and spread positive energy by paying attention to the DEI dimension in game products and distribution strategies, so as to promote content planning, graphic experience, team structure, etc. In practice, DEI accumulates and effectively enhances international competitiveness for the company and brand.

Open and inclusive core values work together to create an ecosystem

Google has always been committed to promoting DEI (diversity, equality and inclusiveness). In the exchange activities of this conference, developers from all over the world also shared with Google how DEI empowers the industry, developers and users to build a diversified ecosystem.

As in previous sessions, the Google Developers Conference also specially set up a special topic sharing on women’s workplace empowerment and diversity, equality and inclusiveness. In addition, the development of Android barrier-free open source applications can help developers experience various barrier-free requirements from the user's perspective, thereby creating products and services that everyone can enjoy.

In the link of "Technology Changing the "Horizon", Google’s accessibility engineer Zhong Yu and Mr. Wu Yiming, senior information accessibility engineer and developer from Liandi Information Accessibility Company, discussed how to apply Google technology to create better products to satisfy users. Diversified barrier-free requirements, user experience enhancement and other aspects were shared.

In the session with the theme "Building a Diversified, Equal and Inclusive Workplace Environment Together", Google Strategic Account Manager Zhang Yan and Google Greater China Market Research Manager Zhang Yunwei shared a number of internal promotion of "diversity" by Google employees in the company. Equality and tolerance" community activities.

In addition, Shen Qiang, the head of Google Developer Relations China, together with Ma Ping, product manager of Ctrip, Ye Nan, mobile architect of Orange China Lab, and Tang Songlong, general manager of Open Source Technology, discussed how to better work together with the community in the future. Build an ecosystem and help developers.

At the event, Jason Titus, Google’s vice president of global developer relations, said: “We are committed to supporting developers to help them build outstanding products for today and the future. Whether it’s using Android 12 to develop large-screen applications and TensorFlow to deploy machine learning Model, or use ARCore to build a new augmented reality experience. We all hope that developers can advance development work with confidence and coordination."

Write at the end

Just like the theme of "Develop as One", the series of technological innovations and solutions brought by this Google Developers Conference fully demonstrate Google’s "open and inclusive" corporate values and create opportunities for developers and partners. , Practice of seeking common development.

We look forward to the fact that in the future, Google will also continue to gather developers with rich and diverse technology products and platforms, and join hands with Chinese developers and enterprises to build a beautiful community!