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Posted By James Smith, Product Manager, Google Play



In order to help developers make great games and build their businesses, we
offer Google Play Games Services (GPGS). GPGS provides powerful tools to build, analyze and retain your audience and optimize your
game. After listening to developer feedback and examining usage, we have decided
to remove some of the features so we can focus on making our offering more
useful.




In December, we
announced the end of support for the creation of new iOS accounts given the
low usage of GPGS on iOS. Additionally, our latest Native SDK release (2.3) will
no longer support integration with iOS and going forward we will not be
supporting or updating the iOS SDK.




Weve also examined the features that GPGS offers. While developers use
engagement and reporting tools extensively, there is lower usage for Gifts,
Requests, and Quests. We therefore plan to stop supporting Gifts, Requests, and Quests. In
order to help developers that do use these features plan for their removal, we will leave them open for 12 months, deactivating them by 31st March 2018. Well
be continuing support for other features such as Sign-in, Achievements,
Leaderboards and Multiplayer.




Play games services remains an important part of the tools we provide
developers, and were working hard on future GPGS updates. We continue to be
strongly committed to providing high quality services for Games, including new
tools such as official
Firebase support for Unity and C++ developers, and integration
with Firebase Analytics. These changes allow us to focus our efforts on the
services developers value most to build high quality, engaging games.

Posted by Sandie Gong, Developer Relations Program Manager & Chris Iremonger, Android Technical Program Manager



Like many other issue trackers at Google, were upgrading our Android Open
Source Project (AOSP) issue tracking system to Issue Tracker. We are
hoping to facilitate a better collaboration between our developers and our
Android product teams by using a tool we use internally at Google to track bugs
and feature requests during product development.




Starting today, all issues formerly at code.google.com/p/android/issues
will migrate to Issue Tracker under the Android
Public Tracker component. You may have noticed that we are already using the
new tool to collect feedback on the O Developer
Preview!



What has been migrated

• All
  open and closed issues youve filed
  


• All
  your starred issues
  


• Allissues youve commented on

You can learn more about navigating our Issue Tracker from our developer documentation.
By default, Issue Tracker displays only the issues assigned to you. You can
easily change
that to show a hotlist of your choice, a bookmark group, or a saved search.
You can also adjust
notification settings by clicking the gear icon in the top right corner and
selecting Settings.




The mappings in Issue Tracker are also slightly different than code.google.com
so make sure to check out Life of a Bug to
learn more about what the various statuses mean.









Opening a code.google.com issue link will automatically redirect you to the new
system. Weve cleaned up some of the spam, but youll be able to find all of the
other issues from code.google.com in Issue Tracker, including any
issue youve reported, commented on, or starred.




You can view all reported Android issues in the Android
Public Tracker component and drill down to see reported issues for specific
categories of issues, such as Tools and Support Libraries, by searching
for specific components.

Filing a bug or feature request

Before filing a new issue, please check if it is already reported in the issues list. Let us know what issues are important to you by starring
an existing issue.




Submitting a new issue is easy. Once you click "Create Issue", search for the
appropriate component for your issue. Alternatively, you can just follow the
correct issue creation link for each component listed in Report Bugs.

Heres some helpful links to get you started!

Topic	Relevant Links
Navigating and creating issues in the Android component	All open issues under the Android Public tracker component Android issues youve reported, commented or starred How to file a new Android bug or feature request What happens after you file a bug in the AOSP Issue Tracker
Navigating Google Issue Tracker	Google Issue Tracker developer documentation Changing your Issue Tracker homepage Searching within Issue Tracker
Google Issue Tracker announcements for other products	Blog post announcing the Cloud Platform move to Issue Tracker Blog post announcing the GSuite move to Issue Tracker