What’s new for builders constructing options on Google Workspace – mid-year recap — Google for Builders Weblog

Posted by Chanel Greco, Developer Advocate Google Workspace

Main software program makers like Atlassian, Asana, LumApps and Miro are constructing integrations with Google Workspace apps—like Google Docs, Meet, and Chat—to make it simpler than ever to entry knowledge and act proper within the instruments relied on by greater than 3 billion customers and 9 million paying prospects.

At I/O’23 we had some thrilling bulletins for brand new options that give builders extra choices when integrating apps with Google Workspace.

Third-party good chips in Google Docs

We introduced the opening up of good chips performance to our companions. Good chips let you tag and see vital info to linked sources, comparable to tasks, buyer information, and extra. This preview info gives customers with context and significant info proper within the movement of their work. These capabilities are actually usually obtainable to builders to construct their very own good chips.

A few of our companions have constructed and launched integrations utilizing this new good chips performance. For instance, Figma is built-in into Docs with good chips, permitting customers to tag Figma tasks which permits readers to hover over a Figma hyperlink in a doc to see a preview of the design undertaking. Atlassian is leveraging good chips so customers can seamlessly entry Jira points and Confluence pages inside Google Docs.

Tableau makes use of good chips to indicate the person the Tableau Viz’s title, final up to date date, and a preview picture. With the Miro good chip answer customers have a simple method to get context, request entry and open a Miro board from any doc. The Whimsical good chip integration permits customers to see up-to-date previews of their Whimsical boards.

Google Chat REST API and Chat apps

Builders and answer builders can use the Google Chat REST API to create Chat apps and automate workflows to ship alerts, create areas, and share vital knowledge proper within the movement of the dialog. As an illustration, LumApps is integrating with the Chat APIs to permit customers to begin conversations in Chat proper from throughout the worker expertise platform.

The Chat REST API is now usually obtainable.

Utilizing the Chat API and the Google Workspace UI-kit, builders can construct Chat apps that carry info and workflows proper into the dialog. Builders may construct low code Chat apps utilizing AppSheet.

There are already Chat apps obtainable from companions like Atlassian’s Jira, Asana, PagerDuty and Zendesk. Jira for Google Chat to collaborate on tasks, create points, and replace tickets – all with out having to modify context.

Google Workspace UI-kit

We’re persevering with to evolve the Workspace UI-kit to offer a extra seamless expertise throughout Google Workspace surfaces with straightforward to make use of widgets and visible optimizations.

For instance, there’s a new date and time picker widget for Google Chat apps and there may be the brand new two-column format to optimize house and arrange info.

Google Meet SDKs and APIs

There are thrilling new capabilities which can quickly be launched in preview for Google Meet.

For instance, the Google Meet Dwell Sharing SDK permits for the constructing of recent shared experiences for customers on Android, iOS, and internet. Builders will be capable of synchronize media content material throughout participant’s gadgets in real-time and provide shared content material controls for everybody within the assembly.

The Google Meet Add-ons SDK allows builders to embed their app into Meet through an iframe, and select between the principle stage or the aspect panel. This integration will be printed on the Google Workspace Market for discoverability.

Companions comparable to Atlassian, Figma, Lucid Software program, Miro and Polly.ai, are already constructing Meet add-ons, and we’re excited to see what apps and workflows builders will construct into Meet’s highly-interactive surfaces.

With the Google Meet APIs builders can add the facility of Google Meet to their purposes by pre-configuring and launching video calls proper from their apps. Builders can even be capable of pull knowledge and artifacts comparable to attendance reporting, recordings, and transcripts to make them obtainable for his or her customers post-meeting.

Google Calendar API

The power to programmatically learn and write the working location from Calendar is now obtainable in preview. Within the second half of this yr, we plan to make these two capabilities, together with the writing of sub-day working places, usually obtainable.

These new capabilities can be utilized for integrating with desk reserving techniques and coordinating in-offices days, to say just some use instances. This info will assist organizations adapt their setup to fulfill the wants of hybrid work.

Google Workspace API Dashboard and APIs Explorer

Two new instruments had been launched to help builders: the Google Workspace API Dashboard and the APIs Explorer.

The API Dashboard is a unified method to entry Google Workspace APIs by the Google Cloud Console—APIs for Gmail, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Chat, Slides, Calendar, and lots of extra. From there, you now have a central location to handle all of your Google Workspace APIs and examine the entire aggregated metrics, quotas, credentials, and extra for the APIs in use.

The APIs Explorer permits you to discover and check Google Workspace APIs with out having to jot down any code. It is a good way to get aware of the capabilities of the various Google Workspace APIs.

Apps Script

The eagerly awaited undertaking historical past functionality for Google Apps Script will quickly be usually obtainable. This characteristic permits customers to view the record of variations created for the script, their content material, and completely different modifications between the chosen model and the present model.

It was additionally introduced that admins will be capable of add an allowlist for URLs per area to assist safer entry controls and management the place their knowledge will be despatched externally.

The V8 runtime for Apps Script was launched again in 2020 and it allows builders to make use of fashionable JavaScript syntax and options. When you nonetheless have legacy scripts on the previous Rhino runtime, now’s the time emigrate them to V8.

AppSheet

We have now been additional enhancing AppSheet, our no-code answer builder, and introduced a number of new options at I/O.

Later this yr we can be launching Duet AI in AppSheet to make it simpler than ever to create no-code apps for Google Workspace. Utilizing a natural-language and conversational interface, customers can construct an app in AppSheet by merely describing their wants as a step-by-step dialog in chat.

The no-code Chat apps characteristic for AppSheet is mostly obtainable which can be utilized to shortly create Google Chat apps and publish them with 1-click.

AppSheet databases are additionally usually obtainable. With this native database characteristic, you may arrange knowledge with structured columns and references straight in AppSheet.

Take a look at the Construct a no-code app utilizing the native AppSheet database and Add Chat to your AppSheet apps codelabs to get you began with these two new capabilities.

Google Workspace Market

The Google Workspace Market is the place builders can distribute their Workspace integrations for customers to search out, set up, and use. We launched the Clever Apps class which spotlights the AI-enabled apps builders construct and helps customers uncover instruments to work smarter and be extra productive (eligibility standards right here).

Begin constructing immediately

If you need early entry to the options in preview, join the Developer Preview Program. Subscribe to the Google Workspace Builders YouTube channel for the newest information and video tutorials to kickstart your Workspace improvement journey.

We will’t wait to see what you’ll construct on the Google Workspace platform.