Hello. I’m excited to share a preview of the Google Home Developer Center.
I’m Alex Selig, the PM Lead driving this effort.
You asked and we listened.
Over the past few years, you’ve been giving us the feedback
that the Google Smart Home Development Experience
has room to improve.
You've asked for an easier,
more streamlined and more predictable experience.
You want the documentation and tools where you need it,
when you need it.
As a result, we’re overhauling
our developer tools and documentation from the ground up
starting with Matter and Routines.
I’m proud to share that we’re building one place
for all of Google smart home offerings.
The Google Home Developer Center is focused on making
the development process clearer and self-serve.
We've got two main parts to the Developer Center.
Our website, where you can learn about our tools,
integration paths, and understand the what and why.
You'll find key information needed for your developers,
marketers, and business colleagues to collaborate.
Our developer console,
which is the second half of the equation, is where you can build,
test, and launch your integrations with rich documentation throughout.
We’re making sure each step of development is supported with rich tools
to make development easy, self-serve, and fast.
As you can see here, in our console navigation,
we’re breaking out each step with supporting space
with related tools and documentation.
The Developer Center will be the best place for you
to build test and launch your Matter integrations.
We're giving you the tools to make sure your brand stands out during Matter setup.
Just enter the product info on the console and voila, you're good to go.
For the first time, the console is going to enable you
to build, test and launch routines,
letting your users discover more ways to use your devices
right from the Google Home app.
Starting in spring of next year, we're going to host workshops
to share the details of our routine schema
and the tools for creating suggested routines.
We can't be more excited to give our developers
the power to create whole-home experiences
with Google Smart Home ecosystem and automation.
We also hear the feedback
that our requirements for certification and badging
need to be clearer for both developers and marketers.
We'll be publishing this information on the site
for easy reference with technical and marketing resources
and checklists for everyone on your team.
Starting next year,
the Google home developer console
will be the best way to build Matter devices
and connect them to Google.
I’m excited to share a preview of the new console.
In the demo, I'll be building my first routine
and field trialing it with my coworker Zhengyin.
We'll get started at the beginning.
I'm going to add to an existing project.
In this case, it’s my August 31st demo project.
Once I hit create,
I’m gonna see an overview of all the various integrations
I can add to my project.
Now I'm going to click on project details.
In the details view,
I can see all of the various aspects of my project,
including manage members,
which can be done using the Google cloud platform.
I'm gonna head back now to the overview
to create a routine.
When I click add,
I’ll be taken to a routine schema entry box.
And this is where I can paste in my new schema
and validate it.
Once I do so,
I'll notice that I've actually had a validation error.
It says etadata instead of metadata.
I'll quickly make this fix and validate again.
And once it’s validated, I’ll click save, and I’m done.
Once I'm done,
I'll actually see an overview
of my existing routines that I’m building.
My next task is actually to start a field trial.
So I’m actually going to go to the field trial section
in my navigation and I’m going to go select
my routine that I just created.
So I’ve selected it, hit start,
and then I'm going to enter in the email addresses
of the two individuals that I want to start
a field trial with.
In this case, it’s me and my coworker Zhengyin.
Once I enter those two emails and I click start,
I'm good to go.
It's that easy.
And you can see right here,
that field trial is now started.
That concludes our demo and there's so much more to come.
Keep an eye out for updates
to the Google Home Developer Center
in the first half of next year.
Thanks again for watching.
And that's all we've got for now
for the Developer Center preview.