Samsung has announced enhanced capabilities in the (virtual assistant) Bixby Developer Studio at the Samsung Developer Conference 2019 (SDC19). These include:
- New Bixby Templates for developers to create capsules using pre-existing forms so that they don’t have to start from scratch.
- Enhanced Bixby Views to help developers to build capsules with a consistent design even beyond smartphones — to televisions, Tablets, smart watches and refrigerators.
Developers can now register their capsules under Natural Language Categories, announced Samsung. When users will ask Bixby for help related to a category — such as radio, news, or navigation — Bixby will suggest a capsule that can help them get what they need more quickly and easily, even without having to call out exact name of the capsule.
At the SDC19, Samsung also shared its “vision for the next era of mobile and connected living”.
The electronics major said it had launched the Samsung Bixby Marketplace earlier this year, creating a way for developers to introduce their Bixby capsules to millions of Bixby users. In the past six months, the size of the Bixby developer community had doubled. Starting 2020, the Bixby Marketplace will expand gradually, enabling developers to offer their services across more Samsung devices.
Samsung SmartThings platform
To help developers build on and integrate existing devices with the SmartThings platform, Samsung announced new capabilities for developers:
- There is a new Rules API for automated smart home experiences to “reflect individual daily routines across a broad range of SmartThings devices.”
- The SmartThings Device SDK Beta program will be launched in early 2020 to enable more third-party manufacturers to create SmartThings-compatible devices.
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