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[Music] hello i'm dan galpin for the dolph show this is your weekly update on the coolest developer news from google we announced the android game development kit with a full range of tools and libraries to help you develop optimize and deliver high quality android games this includes an extension to allow you to easily add an android target to your visual studio game project new cnc plus game development libraries and a full featured frame profiler within the android gpu inspector head on over to the blog for more on the agdk we announced that android 12 will have game mode apis allowing you to react to the player's performance profile selection for your game like better battery life for a long commute or performance mode to get peak frame rates read more about game mode game mode interventions the upcoming game dashboard play as you download and the rest of our android game developer announcements on the post we announced android ml platform an updatable fully integrated ml inference stack including built-in on-device inference essentials optimized performance across devices including hardware acceleration when available and a consistent api that spans android versions learn more about our plans for android ml including our early access program on the post in august google play will start requiring new apps to be published with the android app bundle replacing apks as a standard publishing format google play uses app bundles to generate and optimize apks for different device configurations and languages making your app smaller and faster to download check out the post for more including an faq on app bundles we're introducing two new security measures to google play additional identification requirements and two-step verification with this update owners of developer accounts will also be asked to provide their account type a contact name physical address and verification of email and phone number we're also taking steps to keep your account safer by mandating that users of google play consoles sign in using google's two-step verification you can find the timeline for these changes on the post along with some best practices to keep your account in good health we release the cloud storage for firebase emulator part of the firebase command line interface which allows you to develop and test your app without connecting to production services it integrates with the rest of the firebase emulator suite including the firebase auth emulator and the cloud functions emulator unlocking the ability to locally test your app end-to-end like never before every build product in firebase now has a local emulator you can read more about it and how to get started on the post we introduced a new secure browser policy prohibiting google oauth requested embedded browser libraries commonly referred to as embedded web views all embedded web views be blocked starting on september 30th 2021 to learn more about how to comply with this policy across multiple client platforms head on over to the post we announced scorecards v2 a major update to our automated security tool that produces a risk score for open source projects it adds new security checks scales up the number of projects being scored and makes this data easily accessible for analysis learn more about the kinds of issues scorecards v2 can detect and how to improve the score of your open source library on the post please remember to like subscribe share and stay safe i'm dan galvin for the developer show thanks for watching and we'll see you next week deliver high quality android games this includes an extension allowed to easily add to an android well can't even go that fast