#WeArePlay: Solving the dinner dilemma – how Delish Kitchen empowers 13 million home cooks

Posted by Robbie McLachlan - Developer Marketing

In our latest #WeArePlay film, which celebrates the people behind apps and games on Google Play, we meet Chiharu - a co-founder of Delish Kitchen. She is on a mission to solve one of the most common daily frustrations: "What should I make for dinner?" Discover how this avid baker since her teens combined her passions for food and tech, building an app that delivers 55,000 professional recipes to over 13 million users across Japan.



You went from making websites in middle school to creating one of Japan's leading recipe apps. What inspired that leap and sparked the idea for Delish Kitchen?

I’ve loved the internet since I was a kid and always dreamed of creating my own online service. After working on mobile games, I discovered the huge potential for video content on mobile. That’s when the spark for Delish Kitchen happened. I was working on new services related to food and saw that people were really struggling with deciding what to make every day. I felt this myself when I used to bake as it was difficult to understand recipes from only text and pictures. I wanted to solve that daily problem for people, and I knew video was the way to do it and make their lives happier.



What is the core mission behind Delish Kitchen and how does it make life easier for your users?

The biggest struggle for people who cook every day is deciding what to make. My mission is to solve that problem and make people happier every day. For beginners, we show them that cooking is easier than they thought. For experienced cooks, we make it easy to find what to make today. We have 55,000 recipes, and we also suggest the entire meal, or "KONDATE," so they don't have to think about pairing a main dish with a side.



How has Google Play helped you reach and grow with such a large audience?

We wanted our app to be accessible to as many people as possible, and distributing it on Google Play was very important for reaching the large number of Android users in Japan. To have over 5 million downloads, mostly just in Japan, shows how vital that is. Google Play has been a great partner in our growth because it provides the integrations and tools that help developers grow more efficiently. For us, that means checking all the user reviews to decide on new features, and it also includes feature campaigns that help us reach even more people.

What is next for Delish Kitchen?

We just launched an AI-powered cooking assistant for our premium users. It’s designed to answer questions like, "What can I make from leftovers?" or "Can you give me a high-protein recipe under 500 calories?". We are also working on a new app, which will help people record their meals and manage their health and wellness. Beyond apps, we are reaching into offline services by building new partnerships with supermarkets to help people make better food choices in their everyday shopping.

Discover other inspiring app and game founders featured in #WeArePlay.


Automatically generated captions for videos in Google Drive now available in more languages

What’s changing

Last year, we announced the ability to automatically generate captions for English-language videos in Google Drive. Today, we’re expanding this feature to support 27 additional languages.

This update makes video content stored in Drive more accessible, inclusive, and easier to understand for all users, especially those who are deaf or hard of hearing, are in a noisy environment, or speak a different primary language. Automatically generated captions also save time by eliminating the need for manual caption creation and make it easier to search for video content.

When an eligible user uploads a video to Drive, this feature will automatically detect if the video is in one of the supported languages and generate captions for it.

The new languages supported are:

  • Arabic
  • Czech
  • Dutch
  • Filipino
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Malay
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Vietnamese
Support for Chinese is coming soon.

Getting started

  • Admins: This feature expansion will be ON by default for all eligible organizations and will respect your existing settings for automatically-generated captions. No new admin control is being added. You can control this feature for your organization at the domain, OU, or group level. Admins can choose to:
    • Have captions generated automatically when a user uploads a video (default)
    • Turn on the feature, but require users to request captions for each video
    • Disable automatically-generated captions entirely
  • End users: For end users at organizations where automatic generation on upload is enabled, captions in these new languages will be generated automatically upon video upload. No action is required. End users who need to request captions (including users with personal Google accounts) can generate captions by doing the following: right-click the video > Manage caption tracks > Add new caption tracks. Visit the Help Center to learn more about automatically generated captions. 

Rollout pace

  • Available now

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

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Data classification labels visible in more places across Google Drive

What’s changing

Beginning today, a Drive item’s applied data classification values will appear across all views on Drive on the web, including Home, My Drive, Shared Drives, and Drive search results. Previously, users needed to either navigate to Details or open the file to know a Drive item’s classification state. Now, users will immediately see the applied classification values when navigating throughout the Drive product.

For any particular item, the highest ranked label with a badged list field will display the applied option. For items with more than one label applied, an additional label count icon will appear next to the badged value displaying the number of additional labels applied to the item. For items where only data classification labels without badged lists are applied, the Label name of the highest rank classification label will appear next to the file title with a non-colored badge treatment. It’s important to note that only options from badged lists will display within Workspace surfaces; a label without a badged list will display the label name. 

Hovering over either the badged label value or the additional count icon will display additional applied labels in a tooltip. Clicking a label value will immediately open the Labels section of File Details. 

Data classification labels visible in more places across Google Drive

Getting started

  • Admins: 
    • If you've been using classification labels, there are no changes to your experience beyond improved end user visibility of applied labels. 
    • There is no admin control for this feature; however, you are able to adjust whether a label contains a badged option list and specify a color scheme within the Label Manager. 
  • End users: No action needed. Labels will start to appear on Drive items across all supported views. 

Rollout pace

  • Available now

Availability

Data classification labels in Drive are available to Google Workspace:

  • Frontline Starter and Standard
  • Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education Standard and Education Plus
  • Nonprofits
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus

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Unlocking Peak Performance on Qualcomm NPU with LiteRT

LiteRT's new Qualcomm AI Engine Direct (QNN) Accelerator unlocks dedicated NPU power for on-device GenAI on Android. It offers a unified mobile deployment workflow, SOTA performance (up to 100x speedup over CPU), and full model delegation. This enables smooth, real-time AI experiences, with FastVLM-0.5B achieving over 11,000 tokens/sec prefill on Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 NPU.

Upcoming changes to targeting in Display & Video 360 API and Structured Data Files

Today, we’re deprecating Insertion Order and Campaign-level targeting management in Display & Video 360 API and Structured Data Files (SDFs) and announcing that they will sunset in February 2026. This change is a result of the removal of this targeting across the entirety of Display & Video 360.

In place of this deprecated targeting, we recommend that you set targeting at the line item level using advertisers.lineItems.bulkEditAssignedTargetingOptions or a Line Item SDF. If you want to apply targeting across all line items under an advertiser, use advertiser-level targeting with advertisers.editAssignedTargetingOptions.

This sunset will result in the following behavior after February 2026:

For full details on these changes, see the Display & Video 360 API deprecation announcement. We will announce an exact date for the feature sunset in an upcoming blog post that will be published at least 30 days in advance.

If you need help with these new features, please contact us using our Display & Video 360 API Technical support contact form.

- Trevor Mulchay, Display & Video 360 API Team