 This year prompted a lot of change in the way we look at current status quo and We all needed to adapt to change really quick. So we decided to try having Hack Week virtually So this setup worked surprisingly well and this virtual conference room became a frequent activity in our team Beyond that Hack Week especially early on in our work from home journey Our team is split into different time zones So we tried to have being in the same loom atmosphere for a few hours a day when all of us are working together So how it works including this video shoot is that I'm on a video call with producers and directors Screen sharing camera remote up on my laptop, which is connected to my camera So that they can make sure all of my recording settings are collect This is how our video gets made these days In response to COVID-19 pandemic our team has put together a list of helpful resources in one page From how to diagnose a performance issue to how to add structural data So important announcements are properly surfaced on search Houdini is an umbrella term that describes a series of low-level browser APIs Which make it easier for authors to access and extend CSS by hooking into the styling and layout process of the browser's rendering engine This means that developers now have much more control and power over the styles they write For example instead of waiting for a browser to implement an angled borders feature You can write your own paint work lit apply it to both borders and clipping and get an effect just as you would with a rounded border radius Instead of waiting for a routed implement masonry You could implement a layout work lit imitate this browser based implementation or you can use an existing one and beyond work Let's Houdini enables more semantic CSS for the type object model and enables developers to define advanced CSS custom properties With syntax default values and inheritance through the properties and values API To make working with a paint API and other Houdini work that's a little easier to explore and consume my team puts together a Resource called Houdini dot how it's your all-in-one go-to for CSS Houdini worklets and information a congregate library and a reference We recently launched bubble wrap a common line, too That helps web developers to use their PWA in an Android app. I just described only the basic flow Look out for a companion blog post with more details about play billing for web It will include details about managing your subscriptions using real-time developer Notifications and more information about Google Play developers API We received feedback from developers worried about devices where Chrome is not installed or is not the user's preferred browser With Samsung internet having support for trusted web activity from version 13 and above We are happy to say that most browsers on Android now support percent web activity Many of us are already familiar with stories. They're always full-screen portrait and immersive Stories allow readers to tap to go forward and backward and you drag up to open a page attachment And of course stories allow you to swipe to go to the next story if there is one and so on Web stories are a web-based version of the popular stories format that blend video audio images Animation and text to create a dynamic consumption experience So why should you create web stories? one for creative control Just like for regular web pages. It's important to have the right tools at hand to create web stories Tools that help you speed up the content creation process and allow you to achieve better results Thanks to visual editing and guidance along the way. There are three core areas that we hope you'll focus on in the next year As the world move digital your users safety and privacy is more important than ever We believe that one of the biggest investments that you can make in the next year is to focus on your core web vitals We should recognize that the web is a meta platform like flash or Java the web that distracts Over-operating systems and frameworks to enable portable content that isn't locked into a single OS or product The only way the Chrome team succeeds is if the web as a whole thrives