Learn about Registering OAuth clients for Google Sign-in via Isabella Chen and +Laurence Moroney http://goo.gl/Sl3i4t

We've just pushed 2.1 Preview 4 to the canary channel, with new bug fixes and some tweaks to the Instant Run UI. (These fixes will also go out to the 2.0 beta channel soon.)

http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio21preview4available

Preparing for Multi-Window in Android N
5 Pro-tips by +Ian Lake

Not just one, but five pro-tips today on getting your app prepared for multi-window support on Android N. Find out why it is important to use the right Context, handle configuration changes correctly, handle all orientations, build a responsive UI, and support implicit intents in a multi-window world.

Even better: these are things you can do right now to make for a great experience on day 1 without requiring you compile your app with the Android N SDK.

Android Studio Live Templates help you write more code by writing less code.

You may already use these shortcuts to quickly insert templated code snippets for everything from displaying Toasts, to inserting logging statements, creating loops, and finding Views by ID -- but did you know you can create your own Live Templates to templatize repetitive or boilerplate code in your apps?

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rI4tTd7-J8&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc_w6fodMGrA1_tsI3pqPbqa&index=6

Medium: https://medium.com/google-developers/writing-more-code-by-writing-less-code-with-android-studio-live-templates-244f648d17c7#.tlofylkwx

StrictMode for enforcing best practices at runtime

StrictMode isn't just for performance checks - it also offers some runtime checks for ensuring that you're sharing files correctly and encrypting your network traffic.

Watch the video, read the blog (https://medium.com/google-developers/strictmode-for-runtime-analysis-on-android-f8d0a2c5667e) and continue to #BuildBetterApps!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-lJo_RGGXL2Psr8vVCTWjM&v=BxTfwT7mkB4

SMART MIRROR, the mirror of the future that displays time, weather and news. An Android Experiment by Max Braun.

Source code available, too: https://github.com/maxbbraun/mirror

The Android Experiments I/O Challenge is live! Submit yours to win a trip to this year’s Google I/O. androidexperiments.com/challenge

#AndroidExperiments #io16

While AsyncTask is the most useful threading class you can use, there’s some situations where it just doesn’t make sense. For example, AsyncTasks aren’t good for long-running work, or for threaded callbacks. Learn more in this video with +Colt McAnlis. #Perfmatters
https://goo.gl/yFZULo

Episode 45 of the Android Developers Backstage podcast is now available: The State of the ART.

This time, Chet and Tor chat with Brian Carlstrom and Anwar Ghuloum about the Android Runtime improvements in Android N Preview.

http://androidbackstage.blogspot.com/2016/03/episode-45-state-of-art.html

Game developer Daeri Soft reaches global users with Google Play games services

Watch Dael Yu, CEO at Korean game developer Daeri Soft, explain how they used Google Play games services to support global server and multi-player matching functionality around the world. Also, learn how Store Listing Experiments helped them increase downloads of their well known game Freestyle Baseball 2 by more than 200% by testing different icons.

https://goo.gl/JcauPb