Android 12 Developer Preview 2, Google People API, and more!

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[Music] hello i'm laurence moroney for the developer show this is your weekly update on the coolest developer news from google android 12 developer preview 2 is here and it has more new features and changes for you to try out in your apps some new things to look for in this release include new rounded corners apis improved picture-in-picture apis better companion device management easier effects like blur and color filter there's app overlay controls and there's a whole lot more there's a lot to check out in developer preview 2 so read the post on the android developers blog for a few highlights and visit the android 12 developer site for details and downloads for your pixel to aid in the process of migrating from google contacts api to the people api we've added two new sets of endpoints for working with contacts via the people api first we now have new right endpoints that allow developers to create delete and update multiple contacts at once in addition we also have new read endpoints that allow developers to search a user's contacts using a prefix query head to the post and read more about these new endpoints and how to get started with the people api we've announced the general availability of alternate runtimes for google workspace add-ons this release is a major breakthrough for google workspace developers who want to use their own development stack so things like hosting tools languages packages and processes included with this launch is also the debut of the google workspace add-ons cloud api which allows you to completely forego using apps script for managing google workspace add-on deployments using alternate runtimes there's more details in the post we've now announced the general availability of a2vms based on the nvidia ampere a100 tensor core gpus in compute engine so now you can run nvidia q2 enabled machine learning and high performance computing scale out and scale up workloads far more efficiently and at a lower cost so check out the post for regional availability and also how to get started so please remember to like subscribe and share i'm laurence moroney for the developer show thanks for watching and we'll see you next week he's the strongest debugger in the house he really helps me with all my code right becky