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Q1 2020
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Google for Games Developer Summit

Catch the latest announcements, best practices, and new developer previews from Android, Google Play, and more.
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What's new for game developers?

New Android tools for mobile game development:

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Android Studio System Trace tool: updated with native memory profiling capabilities.

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Development Extension for Visual Studio: a new extension making it easy to add Android support for your cross-platform games so you can generate apks, deploy to Android devices or an emulator, and debug your game within Visual Studio.

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Android GPU Inspector developer preview: get details about your game's render stages and GPU counters along with insights to optimize your title for better frame rates and battery life.

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Game Package Registry for Unity by Google: consolidating various Google APIs.

New ways to reach more devices & users

Scale your reach to a growing player-base across the Android ecosystem with new tools and insights into your game's performance:

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Google Play Asset Delivery: a new set of delivery features built on the App Bundle infrastructure, to give you free dynamic delivery of the right game assets to the right devices at the right time.

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Android vitals native crash symbolication (open beta): debug your native crashes more easily with support for symbolication in Play Console. Simply upload your native debug symbols to benefit.

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Android Performance Tuner (developer preview): understand and improve frame rate performance for your games across the fleet of Android devices with new game performance metrics in Android vitals.

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New developer program previews

Apply to help shape the development of cutting edge Google Play and Android features for game developers with your feedback.

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Upcoming Google Play and Android deadlines

GCMNetworkManager:

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April 2020: FirebaseJobDispatcher library will be archived and no longer supported.

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November 2020: GCMNetworkManager library will stop receiving new features or support.

TargetSDK:

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August 3, 2020: new apps must target at least Android 10 (API level 29).

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November 2, 2020: all app updates must target at least Android 10 (API level 29).
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Important reminders

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Google I/O update: out of concern for the health and safety of our developers, employees, and local communities — and in line with "shelter in place" requirements by the local Bay Area government — we sadly will not be holding an I/O event in any capacity this year.

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Due to adjusted work schedules at this time, we are currently experiencing longer than usual review times. Please expect review times of 7 days or longer.

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Google is teaming up with Wings and other great games companies to support the GDC relief fund which has been mobilized to support Indie developers who may face a financial impact for Indie developers due to the postponement of GDC 2020. Apply here.

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Do these 5 simple things to help stop coronavirus (COVID-19).

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Pre-launch testing and best practices for games

Learn about the tools and programs available to prepare your game for a successful launch. This Play Academy session covers ways the Play Console can help you test and gather feedback on your game.

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