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Google introduces new Developer Center and SDKs at Smart Home Developer Summit, clarifies GMS requirement for Matter support
Google has introduced a new Smart Home Developer Centre and new SDKs for Matter, the smart home standard. Read on to know more!
Smart homes are the future, and the future is inching closer with every passing day. Earlier this year at Google I/O, Google had announced Matter, a universal standard for smart home devices to encourage interoperability and seamless co-existence between them. Several internet giants like Google, Amazon, Apple, and Samsung have worked together on Matter, and Matter is also supported by both Android and Google Nest devices. Today, at the Smart Home Developer Summit, Google has announced several resources in the form of the Google Home Developer Center, the new Google Home Device SDK for Matter, and the new Google Home Mobile SDK. Google is also expanding its Google Home branding and introducing Suggested Routines to developers.
Android and Google Nest are getting support for Matter, a new universal smart home standard
Google has announced that Matter, a new universal smart home standard, will be supported on Android and Google Nest devices.
Smart home devices have been a thing for a long time and we've seen them from many different companies, including from the likes of Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung. They're meant to blend inside your home and enhance it with voice assistants, AI, or simply integrate with other devices in your household. But there hasn't been an actual standard for them, making interoperability between these smart devices something of a mixed bag sometimes. Now, though, there is: it's called Matter, and Google officially announced that both Android and Google Nest devices will be supporting it.
Project CHIP-certified devices could finally launch later this year
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