Thursday, November 10, 2016
Game developers get ready for our Developer Day at GDC 2016
Game developers get ready for our Developer Day at GDC 2016
Posted by Morgan Dollard, Product Manager of Google Play Games
Next week, well be in San Francisco to host our annual Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Join us to get a first look at our latest efforts to help developers of all sizes build successful mobile games businesses with powerful tools to develop high quality apps, grow a valuable user base, and earn more revenue.

Our Developer Day will take place in room 2020 of the West Hall of Moscone Center on Monday, March 14. Based on your feedback from last year, were going to keep presentations short and informative with lightning talks around virtual reality, the cloud, ads, and so much more, while dedicating more time to interactive discussions with Google engineers and your peers in the industry.
Heres a glimpse of the agenda on Monday, March 14:
Opening keynote || 10AM: Be the first to see whats new and hear about the investments Google is making to help mobile developers grow their game business.
Best practices for success on Google Play || 10:30AM: In this talk, youll learn how successful mobile game developers acquire users and bring them back to keep them playing longer.
Lightning talks || 11:15AM: A series of 5-minute talks on innovative technologies to tantalize players, like Project Tango, software to speed and simplify game development, and new ways to predict and prevent user churn.
Interactive roundtables || 2:00PM: After lunch, well break up into interactive roundtables to interact with Google experts and peers on how to build better and more successful games. Ask questions, tell Google product teams what you need, and learn from fellow game developers.
Visit the agenda page to get a full list of our talks and speaker details. Please note that these events are part of the official Game Developers Conference, so you will need a pass to attend.
For everyone who cant make it in person, well be live streaming our event on YouTube. Tune in from 10am on Monday, March 18.
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Sunday, August 14, 2016
Check out Facer Hey KittyKitty and more in our Android Wear watch face roundup
Check out Facer Hey KittyKitty and more in our Android Wear watch face roundup
Five fantastic watch faces to add some flair to your smartwatch.
Sometimes you need a little bit of personal flair with your accessories, and your smartwatch is no exception to this rule. Thankfully there are hundreds upon hundreds of different watch faces that allow you to do just that. Rather than making you slog through the good, bad, and ugly watch faces, weve collected five awesome faces that might be new to you.
So if youve been hoping to find something new to spice up your smartwatch, then look no further. Weve got you covered. Keep scrolling to see what weve collected for you this week!
Facer
Sometimes you dont want to decide on a single watch face. Instead you want to have access to plenty of options to switch between multiple watch faces without the hassle of having to constantly go searching through the Google Play Store for them. Thats where Facer comes in. Facer is a free app that boasts dozens of different watch faces from within their app.
There is a ton of content within Facer that you can explore at your leisure. There are unlockable watch faces that are only available once you have completed certain tasks within the app like sharing a watch face with friends. You can explore their top charts for both free and paid watch faces, or you can see their featured ones. The last but not least of the awesomeness is the fact you can easily build your own watch faces from within the app.
Download: Facer (free)
HeyKittyKitty
Sometimes you just need a cute watch face to get through a rough day. If thats the case, then the HeyKittyKitty watch face might be just up your alley. This is a super simple watch face that features an adorable kitty along with the time and date, but not much else. You can adjust the time format, select ambient mode, and select whether the animation loops.
At the very bottom of the screen is the current date with the month, day and day of the week. Just above that is the time in a default 12-hour digital style. In the middle of your screen is a cat with a small ball of yarn. If you tap on it, youll get an animation of that cat flopping onto its back for belly rubs. Best of all this watch face is available for the low, low price of absolutely free.
Download: HeyKittyKitty watchface (free)
Stopwatch and Timer
Maybe youre training for a 5K, or you just want to know how long it takes you to do 100 pushups. Whatever the reason, having easy access to a stopwatch, and a timer right on your wrist can be handy. Thats where the Stopwatch and Timer watch face comes in. It gets you access to the timers you want, along with the time, date and even battery percentage on your smart watch. Its also got a fair few options that will let you adjust the background, as well as what is showing on the watch face and even what position the information displayed is in.
The time is displayed in digital 24-hour format at the top of your screen. Just under that is the timer on the left, and your stopwatch on the right. By tapping youll either set a timer, or start your stopwatch. At the bottom left of the screen is todays date with the day of week, month and day. On the bottom right is your battery indicator. This watch face can be particularly handy in a pinch and is available for $0.99.
Download: Stopwatch and Timer watch face ($0.99)
YinYang
For some people, a watch face that just gives you the time with a background is all that you need. If thats the case, then the Yin Yang watch face should interest you. This is a watch face where what you see is what you get, there arent any options to change or adjust anything. What you do get is a background with a yin yang, and the time over top of it.
This watch face displays the time in a classic watch analog style. Youll see tick marks around the edge of your screen to denote the hours of the day. The watch hands will tick off hours, minutes, and seconds as time passes. Thankfully this super simple watch face is available for free.
Download: Yin Yang watch face (free)
WatchMaster
WatchMaster is another app that enables you to find and download hundreds of different watch faces. You can search through their free watch faces, brand watch faces, search by category and even see watch faces that are coming to the app in the near future. One of the really cool features of WatchMaster is how many watch face developers are using it. As you scroll through you may see familiar watch faces from the Google Play Store, like the Fiore watch face or the mysterious forest watch face.
While you have the option of only downloading free watch faces, or paying for each watch face separately, there is a third option with WatchMaster. You can opt in to the Pro version of the app, which gives you access to all of the watch faces on their app. You can subscribe yearly for $6.99, or upgrade permanently for $16.99. Part of this subscription fee even goes to creators to ensure that future watch faces will be of a higher quality.
Download: WatchMaster (free)
These are just the 5 watch faces that caught our eye this go round. There are hundreds of different watch faces that are available through the Google Play Store, with more being added every day. No matter what kind of face you want for your smartwatch, there is definitely one out there. Were any of these watch faces up your alley? Do you have a favorite we should know about? Let us know in the comments below!
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