Google Developers community, our Medium has had some compatibility errors. Like an outdated SDK, our Medium account no longer has proper support nor up to date documentation. To avoid reduced developer performance, it’s time to sunset it. But we’re not going to leave you stranded, like a 404 error message. Instead, stay connected by following us on our channels: Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Blog Here, we’ll continue to provide you with the latest tech trends, tutorials, and developer insights across mobile, web, AI, and Cloud. Think of it as upgrading from an old version of an SDK to a n ..read more

Break out from the sea of Android App icons — What are Custom Intents for App Actions? I counted and I have 129 apps installed on my phone, not including my work profile! I doubt that I’m an outlier. Do I use all of them? Nope, I totally forgot that I had installed so many of them. The biggest challenge for android developers after installation is usage rate, which in 2016 it was reported that there is 77% Drop off rate of usage 3 day post install (ref). But there are a few apps that I rarely “open” but I use on a regular basis. I don’t mess with the sea of icons, even though I ..read more

Smart Home Actions 2020 — Updates & Resources The Google Smart Home platform lets users control your connected devices through the Google Home app and Google Assistant, helping to create a helpful home for your users. As the Smart Home platform has continued to mature over the past year, we’ve created additional tools and resources to help you develop your own Smart Home Action — check them out below! Enhanced Analytics and Logging To help you monitor and log events within your Smart Home Action, Enhanced analytics and logging tools launched on June 30th. These pre-populated met ..read more

Conversational Actions extend the functionality of Google Assistant by allowing you to create custom experiences, or conversations, for users of Google Assistant. Over the year we launched several tools and resources and we’ve listed all them all below organized by major topics in the Conversational Action space: Actions Builder & Actions SDK Interactive Canvas Discovery Build with Actions Builder & Actions SDK Actions Builder and Actions SDK was launched in June, making it easier to design and build conversational Actions on Assistant, like games, for Smart Displays ..read more

App Actions allow users to launch specific features in your Android app using Google Assistant. From a user’s perspective, App Actions provide users with quick ways to verbally navigate to your app or specific activities in your app. Example App Actions user query flow In 2020, we launched 30+ more Built-in Intents, bringing the overall number to over 60. New common Built-in intents, such as “Open app feature” that opens specific activities in the app, or “Get thing” that searches for content using the default in-app search feature, are usable for the majority of apps. In case your a ..read more