Missed our weekly video? Don’t worry, watch this week’s #AoGProTips 🎥 The test suite for smart home allows you to self-test your smart home Action and verify that it meets all the necessary criteria before you submit for review. The test suite automatically generates test cases for the supported…

Missed our weekly video? Don’t worry, watch this week’s #AoGProTips 🎥 Google’s Home Graph provides contextual data about the home and its devices, creating a logical map of the home. This enables users to target devices by room or implicitly make commands when you are located in the same…

Missed our weekly video? Don’t worry, watch this week’s #AoGProTips 🎥 Smart home Actions rely on account linking to authorize the Google Assistant to access a user’s devices, but this is a multi-step process that can be difficult to debug in production. …

In the previous post of this series, we explored using Cloud IoT Core and Firebase to build a device cloud for smart home devices. We saw how Cloud IoT Core enables us to securely connect constrained devices to Google Cloud, while Firebase constructs a user framework around our device data…

Recently, my colleague Dan Myers wrote a great piece on IoT & Google Assistant, introducing the core concepts of the Smart Home Actions API. This API enables developers to report device state to the Home Graph from their existing cloud service infrastructure and execute commands sent from Assistant-enabled devices. In…

Over the past year, we’ve had some great conversations with developers about building IoT devices with the Android Things platform. A common question that comes up is whether the platform is suitable for the Internet of Things (IoT) given that the hardware is much more powerful than the microcontrollers typically…