Report by Rami Jawhar and Felipe Iregui from Google. They talk about building a “golden path” to monetize players using data on when they are happiest.

Google has made available a test build of the Android O operating system. You can download it from the developer page.

Google has announced the release of a new version of the integrated application development environment (IDE) Android Studio.

Google has added new tools and formats for developers of free-play games on the AdMob platform.

On February 16, the results of the first European Google Play Indie Games Contest were summed up in London. A jury of experts from the mobile games industry awarded the victory to the Reigns project of the British studio Nerial.

Google has started issuing an initial degree in Android development – an associate degree. You can take an exam for it on the Internet.

Google shared recordings of lectures on game development and launch from its own Playtime conferences. Speakers include Space Ape Games, Seriously and Kabam.

The prevalence of the seventh Android OS in the three months since its release reached 0.4%. The information was shared by Google.

Localization of applications in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) strongly affects sales,” Google writes with reference to the experience of the teams Wego.com and IGG.com .

The new virtual reality from Google is very close. The Internet giant shared the price and the date of the Daydream View, its new virtual reality glasses, on sale.

Google’s division, engaged in the development of innovative projects, is going to take up the creation of a multiplayer game on the Unity engine.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights St.Petersburg 2016 conference. Next up is a report by Dmitry Lamonov from Google. In his speech, he spoke about the formats of mobile advertising.

Of the 30 million downloads generated by the Pokemon game to date, the first 10 million came in the starting week.

The other day Google announced a new VR platform for mobile devices – Daydream. We talked to Russian developers of VR projects and experts in this field about the platform.

Search giant Google is thinking about the possibility to stop playing Flash by default in Google Chrome.

We continue to post videos from the White Nights Helsinki 2016 conference. Next up is a report by Dmitry Martynov and Tobias Knoke from Google. They told how using Google Play tools you can improve engagement in Android games.

Starting next week, Android users will no longer need a Google+ social network account to play on their mobile device.

Over the seven years of its existence, Android OS has brought Google $31 billion in revenue and $22 billion in profit. The data was declassified by Oracle during the trial.

The “Promotions” tab has appeared in the Google Play developer console. Android developers will now be able to provide users with free access to applications or IAP using promo codes.