Sharing the Future: A Review of Google Developers Conference 2022 Highlights

At present, the global environment is facing complex and profound changes, and technological innovation is the driving force for the continuous development of society under the wave of digitalization. Creating beauty with technology and kindness, and deeply cultivating engineer culture have become the concept of the development of more and more technology enterprises. As at the 2022 Google Developers Conference "Code for Better_" just held on September 14th, we saw wonderful topics and the latest technology keynote speech videos from Google technical experts and global developers, which covered Google 24 product lines and topics, including development tools, platforms, and product dynamics and technical showcases, as well as continuously updated Google developer online course resources to help developers become more efficient and expand more knowledge and skills.

The keynote speeches on the first day of the conference included keynote speeches and technical keynote speeches. The keynote speeches were shared by Chen Junting, President of Google Greater China, Lu Yunsheng, General Manager of Google Beijing R&D Center, and Chen Zhuo, Google Development Technology Promotion Engineer.

At the beginning of the keynote speech of the conference, Chen Junting, President of Google Greater China, said that "from the day of its birth, Google has been committed to the mission of integrating global information for the public to use and benefit people". Just like the theme of this developer conference "Code for Better_", technology is exciting, and even more exciting is to see what help these technologies can bring to everyone. Look forward to Google's continuous innovation and improvement in the field of technology and products, helping developers and partners to jointly create products for today and the future.

In the keynote speech, Lu Yunsheng, general manager of Google Beijing R&D Center, also brought wonderful sharing. Lu Yunsheng said, "The unrestricted spirit of developers facing the future has brought great convenience to our study, communication, life, and work." Over the past year, Chinese developers have played an increasingly important role on the global stage. In the journey of "Sharing the Future", Google will continue to work with developers and partners to use platforms and products to help create exciting products and services, actively participate in the general trend of globalization, help Chinese cultural creators go overseas, and continue to pay attention to talent training To advance the realization of Google's mission (Code for Better Knowledge), and further explore innovations to help developers and global users connect (Code for Better Connection).

Subsequently, Chen Zhuo, Google's development technology promotion engineer, brought the latest news about Android. Chen Zhuo said that the Android platform continues to improve and affect people's lives. While helping developers create an all-weather, exciting and seamless experience for users, technologies, tools and platforms including Android Studio and Kotlin programming languages also provide It provides more comprehensive functions and a more efficient development experience, providing developers with the opportunity to reach billions of users around the world. Its high-profile wearables, such as Jetpack Compose for Wear OS, also help developers build more polished wearable apps that follow the best development experience and offer new opportunities to reach and connect with users. In terms of developer productivity updates, Chen Zhuo said that in order to help developers build Android applications faster and easier, the Android team has made a lot of improvements and updates in the system and tool chain. The latest version of Android Studio includes strong support for Jetpack Compose; the latest Compose 1.2 stable version adds new features such as loadable words and nested scrolling to help developers more easily on different devices. Build great app experiences.

Zhang Lei, Business Development Director of Google Play Greater China, also brought wonderful sharing about Google Play. Zhang Lei said that in the face of the current challenging global environment, Android and Google Play continue to provide Chinese developers with platforms that can reach the global market and be served by billions of users. The key to success in the Google Play ecosystem is user trust, so issues such as security, user data and privacy protection have always been at the core of Google Play. Google Play provides developers with a new SDK Index function, making it easier for developers to choose integrated management and use SDKs more securely. In addition, the combination of App Signing and Cloud Key Management and the Play Integrity API further strengthens the protection of developers' apps from piracy and other fraudulent activities. Regarding data collection by Apps on users, the Data Safety Section of the Google Play Store provides users with a more intuitive understanding of the issue, while the Privacy Sandbox on Android solution has driven more privacy-friendly ad serving, with higher quality The product has won the trust of users, and continues to provide assistance to developers through products and cooperation in many aspects such as user acquisition, participation enhancement, and global market expansion.

Subsequently, Sumit Chandel, a development technology promotion engineer from the Google Firebase team, brought a technical sharing about the development of the Firebase platform. Sumit said the team will continue to work on tools that make app development faster and easier, strengthen Firebase's integration with Google's most popular products for developers, and make the Firebase platform work better with an open ecosystem of tools , to help monitor application quality and keep your business up to speed with the growth of your global user base. Firebase-based Flutter plugins are fully integrated and available, supporting functions such as adding official Flutter documentation, code snippets, and providing customer support. Faced with the thorny issues of cross-platform development, the updated Crashlytics supports better debugging of apps in Android Studio, and the new App Quality Insights window allows developers to discover and investigate Crashlytics reports in Android Studio without switching tools. question.

Fan Zhouying, product manager of the Google Flutter team, also shared about Flutter technology. Fan Zhouying said that Flutter was born to innovate user interface development. It combines the iterative development mode of the Web and a hardware-accelerated graphics engine to achieve pixel-level fine control that could only be achieved in games before. The new Flutter 3.3 release also includes performance improvements and many more eagerly awaited features. The newly launched Flutter Casual Game Toolkit also helps simplify game development through game development templates, learning materials and other resources, helping developers to translate excellent ideas into officially released games.

Paul Kinlan, Google Senior Development Technology Promotion Engineer and Director of Chrome Development Technology Promotion, said that the Chrome team is committed to helping developers build the Web and promote more possibilities for the browser, and the entire ecosystem cooperates to improve browser compatibility to support frameworks, tools and library usage. The Web teamed up with other browser vendors to establish the Interop 2022 standard to help solve development "pain points", allowing developers to focus on developing rich web experiences for users without having to worry about compatibility issues all the time. It also continues to improve Chrome DevTools to provide the best tools and guidance at your fingertips. At the same time, the Web is also experimenting with a new Web API—Shared Element Transitions, which brings beautiful transitions to the Web that could only be achieved in native applications.

Wei Xiaoqian, general manager of Google Shanghai R&D Center, also shared her insights from participating in this conference as a female engineer, looking forward to conveying a culture of diversity, equality and inclusiveness, and working with developers to build a more open and warm developer community. Google continues to help the Google developer community hold rich and meaningful events. This year, there are more than 20 DevFest events led by the Google developer community. The Women Techmakers community has also held rich exchanges and interactions to continuously empower Chinese female developers, and looks forward to empowering Chinese female developers through community resources. Wei Xiaoqian also shared a lot of Google's products that "run through accessibility features and inclusive design concepts", such as Live Transcribe, which supports real-time conversion of more than 80 languages and dialects into text information, and can also be used without a network. Directly providing convenience to the lives of disabled people can also bring convenience to non-disabled people, which is enough to reflect the importance of inclusive design concepts to Google products.

Finally, Jeanine Banks, vice president and general manager of Google Developer X Development Technology Promotion Department, made a summary of the keynote speech. Jeanine Banks said that Google is committed to providing technical and tool support for developers to build products, and to help developers improve their workflow more easily by improving the collaboration of developing products, providing guidance and best practices. Updates such as Flutter 3.3 are helping developers work better together using Google technologies and tools. At the same time, Google is also committed to investing in and supporting open source technologies and communities to ensure that education is open to everyone and benefits more people. Google continues to update the learning resources of the Google Developer Online Course to help developers accelerate their skills and expand their knowledge. Next, I also hope that more developers can start to understand the latest features of their favorite products, so as to innovate forward, benefit others, and "benefit everyone", which is also what Google has been actively promoting as a global technology company. development concept.

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