We’re kicking off our GBG Stories Search 2016 and want to hear how you’re using Google technology to do amazing things. Are you growing your business in innovative ways, or impacting the lives of those around you using Google tools?

Share your story with us and go into the running to win a trip to Google HQ in Mountain View, California. You’ll also receive mentoring sessions from our experts.

Get your submissions in by 27 June 2016. More information can be found here: https://goo.gl/frgnMx

#GBGStories16

Sendy uses Google Play features to build for the next billion users

Sendy (https://goo.gl/eos7UD) is an on-demand couriering platform connecting customers and logistics providers, founded in Nairobi, Kenya. Watch CEO & Co-founder, Meshack Alloys, and Android Developer, Jason Rogena, explain how they use Developer Console features, such as alpha and beta testing, as well as other tips and best practices, to build for the next billion users.

Notifications in Android N

Notifications have long been an area of progressive enhancement and Android N offers a number of new features to make great notifications. A new look and feel and improved support for custom views change how every notification looks and acts while Direct Reply, a new MessagingStyle, and bundled notifications give you more tools to build better notifications and to #BuildBetterApps

http://goo.gl/xwvMtZ

Framy improves user experience with Material Design

Framy, explain how they improved their app by adopting Material Design and other Google Play features, such as staged roll out and Google translate. As a result, the team improved the apps’ ratings from 3.5 to 4.1.

https://goo.gl/nQJIIu

AUTONOMOUS ANDROID VEHICLE - a robot that can recognize, track & follow a ball with the ability to avoid obstacles.

AdapterViews and Espresso - Android Testing Patterns #3

UI testing lists, grids and spinners? Remember to use Espresso.onData() instead of onView() to search for items in your AdapterViews!

#happyTesting

3D CONTROLLER- an app that detects your device's orientation in 3D space and makes it accessible through API #AndroidExperiments

Android N APIs are finalized with Dev Preview 4

Along with our 4th Developer Preview now available through new system images and through the Android Beta program (http://goo.gl/30p5KL), you can now compile and publish apps using API 24 - the finalized APIs for #AndroidN.

Check out the blog post for more details and continue to file issues on the issue tracker: https://goo.gl/g5UCp6

http://goo.gl/ivVxLP

HungerMoji - players must feed their emoji which resides in a notification by dismissing any offending notifications, and collecting any bonus point notifications. #AndroidExperiments

Android Developers Backstage podcast episode 50: Constraint Layout

In this week's installment, +Chet Haase and +Tor Norbye are joined by +Romain Guy, +John Hoford and +Nicolas Roard to talk about the new layout and visual layout editor that they've all been working on (announced at Google I/O).

http://androidbackstage.blogspot.com/2016/06/episode-50-constraint-layout.html

Vietnamese games developer Divmob finds more users with localized pricing on Google Play

Watch Ngo Van Luyen, CEO & Founder at Divmob, and his team explain how introducing sub-dollar pricing in various markets, resulted in a 300% increase in daily transactions, and increased the number of paying users threefold.

https://goo.gl/tUEy5A

1) find a view 2) perform an action 3) verify result. Learn the basic structure of an Espresso UI test in Android Testing Patterns, episode 2.

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