Exploring Google’s Home APIs
Did you know that you can today integrate the broad reach of Google’s smart home users, devices, and ecosystem directly in your own app? Developers now have access to 600M+ devices using Google’s Home APIs. First announced at Google I/O in May 2024, the Home APIs are now released to public developer Beta [https://developers.googleblog.com/en/build-the-future-of-home-with-google-home-apis/].
For the first time Google’s Home API allows you, the developer, to add meaningful functionality without requiring you to develop your own hardware or build your own ecosystem. This talk will describe the Google ecosystem, present case studies and developer resources, and give in-depth details and examples for the APIs.
With the Home APIs you can commission new devices, leveraging Android’s fast pair now on over 3 billion devices; manage, access, and control devices and their states; and create, manage, and execute custom automations. You can now add powerful reach and new capabilities to your applications. Especially exciting is the ability to leverage Google’s AI driven automations. All of this is built from the ground up with security and privacy in mind, so user data is always secure.
You, as a developer, are no longer confined to the devices available in your own app ecosystem. Learn how you can be one of the first developer’s for the Google Home APIs.
Session info:
Speaker: Daniel Zucker
Tech Lead / Manager, Google Home App at Google
Date: 21 March 2025
Time: 16:10 - 16:40
Relevant tags:
Home automation
IoT
Speaker: Yiğit (Yeet) Uyan
Systems Engineer at Google