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blogthis year’s samsung developer conference (sdc18) may still be a few weeks away, but the excitement is already building for samsung’s showcase of technologies that will help developers and creators build the software and services of tomorrow. we've just announced some of the "can't miss sessions" for sdc18. read on to learn more about some of the exciting sessions that will make sdc18 an event where now meets next. and for a limited time, get 50% off with promo code sdc18-dev50! spotlight session the spotlight session headlining day two of sdc18 will cover some of the tech industry’s most interesting topics. hear from thought leaders in gaming and ai as they discuss exciting news, and reveal their respective outlooks on the future. samsung will also share insights into its gaming strategy during the session, and spotlight innovations encompassing artificial intelligence, the s pen, and much more. speakers include sarah bond, xbox/microsoft’s head of global gaming partnerships and development; tim sweeney, founder and ceo of epic games, the studio behind the wildly popular fortnite; and john hanke, founder and ceo of niantic labs, makers of pokémon go. also included in the spotlight session is president and ceo of wacom, nobutaka ide, who will discuss the power of digital pens and what the future holds for digital ink. bixby sdc18 features a variety of sessions that demonstrate how samsung’s intelligence, bixby, is shaping the landscape for ai platforms. spanning lectures, panels and interactive activities, the sessions, including those listed below, offer attendees the insights they need to develop seamless user experiences for a wide range of devices and services. bixby and the new exponential frontier of intelligent assistants - in this session, key business and technical leaders from the bixby team will explain the ins and outs of the technology, outline bixby’s vision for a new kind of open ecosystem for developers, and discuss how and why to get involved. teaching bixby fundamentals: what you need to know - learn how to access bixby’s development tools, including bixby sdk and ide, to create a bixby experience for your business and prepare it for launch within the bixby ecosystem. smartthings last year at sdc, samsung unveiled smartthings, a new platform for connecting and controlling smart devices. this year, the company will discuss smartthings’ latest enhancements and demonstrate ways to implement the intuitive platform into more devices. highlighted sessions include: smartthings 101: new to smartthings - this session will discuss topics such as which kinds of smartthings api integrations can be built, as well as how to quickly create and integrate with the smartthings api. streamlining iot systems: smartthings cloud-to-cloud device integration - this session will introduce a new developer workspace for integrating cloud-connected devices with smartthings. the workspace will feature new apis and tools that will streamline development and go-to-market processes. devices that are integrated with smartthings will be controlled by bixby and other voice assistant platforms, as well as a full ecosystem of automation and service integrations. and much more additional details on these and other sdc18 sessions may be found here. for more information on this year’s conference, including registration details, please visit sdc18’s official website. and don’t forget to follow @samsung_dev on twitter and keep an eye on the hashtag “#sdc18” for the latest news and updates.
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blog#sdc2017 wrapped up today and it was our best conference yet. the day started off with keynote speeches from arianna huffington, stan lee and rain paris. the action continued on the floor with lots of activity at the samsung pay, galaxy apps and samsung health booths, just to name a few. however, the talk of the conference was the announcement of bixby 2.0, which introduces deep linking capabilities and enhanced natural language abilities to better recognize individual users and create a predictive, personalized experience that better anticipates needs. the bixby sdk will be available to select developers and through a private beta program, with general availability coming in 2018. this afternoon, we sat down with the samsung bixby home team to learn more about bixby home and what developers can expect from its newly launched sdk. tell us about bixby home. bixby home helps you navigate your smartphone and make your day easier. it learns and adapts to show you the content you care about. it allows for easier access to apps, important information and personalized daily content. essentially, you get what you need when you need it. when you interact with bixby home, you’ll engage with cards that contain the information you want. social media cards contain all your important social feeds news cards carry the information that you want to read media cards show you the videos you want to interact with international cards allow you to book travel it’s available on the s8, s8+ and the note 8. it will be available on all galaxy flagships devices coming out in the new year. tell us about the sdk you just launched for bixby home here at sdc. the new sdk gives developers two different ways to develop content cards for bixby home: the first way is app-based integration, which pulls content from partner mobile apps. this creates app-based cards. for this type of development, devs will need to add an api library into their mobile apps. the second way is server-based integration, which pulls content from partner servers. here, developers are required to map endpoints from their server to the bixby home server through a server api. the creation process is simple enough: first devs need to register as a developer and then they need to submit their card plan. next, they create, configure, submit the card for approval, conduct an integration test and deploy. currently, there are six different types of cards they can create: utility, multimedia, news cards, location cards, communications cards and commerce cards – more to come in the near future. what’s the value proposition for devs? why develop bixby home cards? well, there are a few reasons why devs would want to develop for not only for bixby home, but also for samsung mobile: they get access to all samsung customers, they see increased engagement with apps and services and they extend consumer reach across multiple devices. what kind of support will devs receive when developing with the new sdk? with the sdk, partners control their content. however, there are api libraries for both app-based cards and server-based cards. they receive a developer guide, a ux guide, and sample cards and apps to review. through the partner portal, devs can manage their cards. here they can propose, design and create their cards, as well as track card analytics. they’re supported every step of the way. we’re very excited about this new sdk and want to set our developer partners up for success. thanks to all the developers, designers, creators, partners, sponsors and everyone else who joined us at #sdc2017. it truly was a great event and we can wait to start working with you all this year to bring our announcements to life. follow us on @samsung_dev to keep the conversation going and keep an eye on our blog for technical content that will bring your dev game to the next level. and see you next year!
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blogwe’re excited to share a selection of this year’s sessions, covering everything from ai to iot to gaming. we’ll be announcing even more in the coming weeks, so stay tuned! bixby and the new exponential frontier of intelligent assistants hear from key leaders of the bixby team, and get answers to your most important questions: how is bixby different? how will i, as a developer, make money by integrating my services with bixby? understand bixby's vision for a new open ecosystem for developers, and how to get involved. learn more. streamlining iot systems: smartthings cloud-to-cloud device integrations learn about the developer workspace to integrate cloud-connected devices with smartthings which will streamline the development and go-to-market processes. learn more. a quick look inside your games: gpuwatch tutorial + gameengine talk get a detailed look at the tools and sdks available through the galaxy gamedev program that help you create high-performance gaming experiences with ease. learn technical tips from samsung and unity to help your games perform better. learn more. check out all of the available sessions on the sdc website. register now to secure your seat!
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blogthe first day of #sdc2017 is in the books and what a day it was. a sold out crowd of developers, creators, designers, partners and sponsors gathered at the moscone center here in downtown san francisco to hear about how samsung is unifying its iot services under smartthings, what the next-generation of bixby 2.0 looks like and how a google partnership will create advanced ar capabilities on more galaxy smartphones. (oh yeah – we’re getting pretty excited for stan lee and rain paris tomorrow.) in a very busy day, these were the highlights: the internet of things for everyone is announced during the kickoff keynote speech, samsung announced it is combining its existing iot services—smartthings, samsung connect, and artik—into one unified iot platform: smartthings cloud. it will provide a single, powerful cloud-based hub that can connect and control iot-enabled products and services from a unified touchpoint. smartthings cloud will build one of the world’s largest iot ecosystems, and will provide the infrastructure for a connected consumer experience that is innovative, versatile and holistic. yes! merging all @samsung #iot services under @smartthings platform, sez @samsungmobile pres dj koh. #sdc2017 pic.twitter.com/nalww41zil— mikefeibus - be well, people! (@mikefeibus) october 18, 2017 with it, devs everywhere will have access to one cloud api across all smartthings-compatible products to build connected solutions and bring them to more people. it will also provide secure interoperability and services for businesses developing commercial and industrial iot solutions. an even smarter bixby next, samsung announced it is shifting intelligence beyond devices and into a ubiquitous, personal and open ecosystem with the introduction of bixby 2.0 with sdk, integrated with viv technologies. bixby 2.0 will be available on a variety of devices including samsung smart tv and the family hub refrigerator. with it, bixby will sit at the center of consumers’ intelligent ecosystem. bixby 2.0 will introduce deep linking capabilities, and enhanced natural language abilities to better recognize individual users and create a predictive, personalized experience that better anticipate needs. faas? fridge as a service. #bixby comes to #familyhub on @samsung appliances. #iot #sdc2017 pic.twitter.com/rpzfvjvuil— mikefeibus - be well, people! (@mikefeibus) october 18, 2017 in order to build this faster, easier and more powerful intelligent assistant platform, samsung will provide the tools to bring bixby 2.0 into a wider number of applications and services. the bixby sdk will be available to select developers and through a private beta program, with general availability coming in 2018. samsung also demonstrated project ambience, a small dongle that can be applied into a wide variety of ordinary objects, allowing them to seamlessly connect, and create a ubiquitous bixby experience. project ambience: samsung has a dongle prototype that lets you turn any speaker into a smart speaker #sdc2017 pic.twitter.com/xhjyyguelt— karissa bell (@karissabe) october 18, 2017 a new venture into ar finally, samsung announced that in order to unlock new realities such as vr, the company is committed to continuing to advance technologies in ar. through a partnership with google, developers will be able to use the arcore sdk to bring ar to millions of samsung consumers on the samsung galaxy s8, galaxy s8+ and galaxy note8. this strategic partnership with google offers new business opportunities for developers, and a new platform for creating immersive new experiences for consumers. ar is the next reality #sdc2017 @samsungdevus @samsung pic.twitter.com/4zhgfrdvi7— pranav mistry (@pranavmistry) october 18, 2017 other highlights in a day full of them include the sdk bar, where devs learned about the latest/greatest sdks and apis to add to their toolboxes. there were many to discover, but a few of the really popular ones included the following: the bixby home card sdk, which allows devs to get the right information to their app service users at the right time. card users can interact with card content that is automatically kept up-to-date and with richer content. the gear apps – tizen sdk which helps devs design and develop standalone and companion apps for samsung gear s2 and s3 wearable devices (which combined for 19% market share in q1). the smartthings api, which allows device makers, service providers, telco partners and devs to create automations and cloud-to-cloud device integrations to build new iot solutions. the samsung artik smart iot platform, which brings hardware modules and cloud services together to speed up your time to market. the smart home cloud api, which provides methods to control and monitor samsung smart home devices. through this smart home control service, a partner’s app can connect with various devices and provide enhanced services. and that was just day one. day two will bring more exciting announcements and dev insights. watch for the second installment of the ‘the dev discourse – a daily roundup from #sdc2017’ for more tomorrow, and of course, follow us on twitter @samsung_dev and join the conversation using #sdc2017.
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docseason 1, episode 4 previous episode | episode index | next episode this is a transcript of one episode of the samsung developers podcast, hosted by and produced by tony morelan a listing of all podcast transcripts can be found here host tony morelan senior developer evangelist, samsung developers instagram - twitter - linkedin guest roger kibbe senior developer evangelist, viv labs/samsung twitter - linkedin in this episode of pow, i interview roger kibbe, senior developer evangelist for bixby, samsung’s intelligent assistant technology roger is a tech geek when it comes to voice technology, even launching his own voice startup join us as we discuss roger’s journey to samsung and the great things around bixby learn how to get started building capsules for bixby, and the magic that drives viv, the bixby team at samsung listen download this episode topics covered intelligent assistant technology multi-modality bixby capsules bixby developer studio bixby marketplace bixby developers chat podcast adam cheyer viv labs helpful links bixby youtube twitter github news/blogs podcast more about bixby samsung bixby is a next-generation, ai platform that enables developers to build rich voice and conversational ai experiences for the bixby marketplace, and bixby devices including phones, watches, televisions, smart appliances, and more check out the bixby developers website at bixbydevelopers com to learn more about creating capsules using samsung’s bixby developer studio transcript note transcripts are provided by an automated service and reviewed by the samsung developers web team inaccuracies from the transcription process do occur, so please refer to the audio if you are in doubt about the transcript tony morelan 00 02 hey, i'm tony morelan and this is pow! podcasts of wisdom from the samsung developer program where we talk about the latest tech new trends and give insight into all of the opportunities available for developers looking to create for samsung on today's show, i interview roger kibbe, senior developer evangelist for bixby samsung's intelligent assistant technology roger is a tech geek when it comes to voice technology, even launched his own voice startup but it was when he entered a samsung hackathon and won, the bixby team said, we need this guy enjoy hey, roger, thanks very much for joining me on this podcast you know, i have to ask you first, who is roger kibbe? roger kibbe 00 44 well, i guess i can answer that question two ways well, one, i'm a husband and a father to two teenage daughters oh, boy but uh, yes, so it keeps me pretty busy these days but professionally, i'm a senior developer evangelist for samsung bixby and what does that mean? it really means i go out and talk to third party developers and agencies and companies and encourage them to go build upon the bixby platform you know, i have a long career in technology been doing it for about 25 years and salting i've been a technology architect, technology strategy i found in my own startup, and i've been in voice for the last several years about the last 18 months or so less than 18 months with samsung, tony morelan 01 27 right about the same time that i did and interesting we both have the same title at samsung me being a senior developer evangelist for the developer program, doing something similar to what you're doing, you know, going out and teaching developers and designers how to create for samsung, so pretty cool we're along the same lines roger kibbe 01 42 yeah, i think it's an it's an amazing job, actually kind of a combination of you got to be familiar with the technology but you also have your you know, love to go talk to people and understand what they're doing and figuring out how technology can help solve their problems or help enable them to do something amazing what a combination tony morelan 02 03 exactly so tell me a little bit how you actually got your start at samsung i heard that you actually won a contest at our developer conference and that's what put you on the radar at the folks at samsung so tell me a bit about that roger kibbe 02 19 yes, i heard about bixby in 2018 it was still a private beta in early 2018 and i was doing my own voice consulting and my own voice start up then and i thought, hey, there's this new platform they have this hackathon i love to play with new technology i'm one of those people that pies the first piece of new technology too much to my wife's chagrin often so i went downloaded it and started playing with it and i realized this is something really cool and doing things in a different way than what the other voice platforms are doing so i built this capsule is a voice application and bixby terminal technology, it was all about just being a can i recycle this? can i compost this? do i need to throw it in the trash? right question i often get from my daughters is dad, what bend is this going to is and then scratch my head, you know, three bins and i want to be a responsible citizen and put it in the right thing sure and i thought, hey, you know, that's a pretty good use case for voice because you want to know that right away so built that for bixby we had this hackathon i got enough finals and then in the sdc, samsung developers conference in 2018, all of us finalists were invited to go and then we presented on stage and i ended up winning that hackathon wow yeah and then that led to i met adam shire and a bunch of the bixby people had some good conversations one thing led to another deeper longer conversations that was in i believe, september 20 18th, and in january 2019, i joined samsung are joined this labs subsidiary of samsung is behind bixby tony morelan 04 04 you've been in this tech industry for about you said 2025 years assuming then that your education is in the tech field did you? was that what you majored in when you're in college? roger kibbe 04 13 no good question no, i actually have a psychology degree well, that comes in handy with two teenage daughters it does, indeed actually comes in handy in a lot of ways, actually because, you know, i think our success personally and professionally is, you know, interacting with people and in a lot of ways, but, uh, yeah, you know, i have a deep interest in human behavior and how that works and so i decided to major in psychology, but i've always been, you know, there's the geek in me and i've always played with technology and so for instance, i took a couple classes pewter science classes for fun, including a lisp class so if anybody knows lisp out there as a listener, that's usually not such a language that you to equate with fun, but i had a lot of fun with it tony morelan 04 58 expand a little bit more on listen, what is that? roger kibbe 05 02 well, it's a programming language that is used i would think pretty much only in academia by today, but it's often used to teach kind of the fundamental was i don't know what modern cs classes are probably moved beyond it, kind of fundamentals of programming and there's a lot of what's called recursion in it, where a function that you write calls itself so it gets very complicated if you're a developer, you know what i'm talking about, if you're not a developer, there's kind of this circular reasoning where it kind of just goes in circles and calls itself and calls itself so it's, it gets very confusing in a lot of ways at first, but, uh, it's actually a really good way to learn a lot of the fundamentals of programming i done programming for that i started in high school, actually, so graduate college, you actually get right into the tech industry just mentioned a little bit about this startup that you had created, and then how that led you into, you know, your interest in voice yeah, and you know, a little but it gets back to my thinking about my whole technology career, i served as a consultant and i worked in technology strategy for gapping for many years, and i've always looked for technology to go do something for us, and then get out of the way and one of the challenges i see with technology today is often yeah, it's incredibly powerful and does something useful for us or something we want it to do, but then it doesn't really get out of the way um, and when i first saw voice and start playing with voice assistance, i was like, i didn't get it at first but then after playing with him more and more as like, you know what this is, this kind of fulfills that kind of lifelong ambition of, hey, go get something done and get out of the way it's the best tech i know for getting out of the way so in back in 2017, i you know, i had a really good kind of technology job, but the big corporation caught my cushy, cushy, corporate tech job i decided to get you know, a little bit of an itch, i decided to be a little bit crazy and leave that bounced around a little bit with some startup opportunities and ended up founding my own voice startup with the idea being hey, it's really too hard to build voice applications today i'm going to make it much easier for you to do it or our tagline was wordpress for voice you know, wordpress is in the web world course yep, lots of templates makes it easy for small business to get online really easily we wanted to build that for voice i will say i think it's still a really good idea and a lot of ways kind of untapped but, um, you know, i think there's a saying that ideas are cheap, and execution is hard i certainly learned that, you know, i think we built a bunch of things, but we weren't fully executing it so i started veering over into the kind of consulting side and doing my own consulting work and that's when i entered that business hackathon one nad and those conversations led to where i currently am but i'm super happy i did it it was a it was a great experience it's something i'd always kind of the back of my head, hey, go off and do your own thing, right? whether succeeds or fails, it doesn't matter got it you got to itch that itch tony morelan 08 17 exactly i actually once heard that you learn more from failed startups than you do from successful startups so i too, have ventured into that area i too, have failed, and lots of great learnings that still come out of that so you had mentioned adam shire, viv labs, bixby, samsung, kind of tell me this whole relationship, how those all have come together what exactly is viv lab and who is adam shire? roger kibbe 08 42 yeah so let me tell you about adam first, a legend and voice and adam has been working in voice for like 25 years back he worked at stanford sri on voice ah, in the, i guess late 20s 2008 somewhere around there they founded a startup called siri and built really what was the first kind of consumer facing voices system? siri most people don't know was originally an app on ios and then very quickly apple bought it so adam and his co-founder dead kit law, worked with apple for a couple years and then went to leave because they really wanted to build kind of the next generation of conversational ai and voice assistance and that's when they founded viv labs and built out the vid labs technology and then a few years ago, samsung bought viv labs and used it as the foundations of some people called bixby to dotto or the new bixby but the current bixby that's on modern samsung phones, is based upon that viv labs acquisition so adam is our kind of our technology guru and leader and quite frankly, his vision and where he'd like to see this industry go is a lot of the reason why i chose viv labs because i really, i end is thinking about where voice and conversational ai can go tony morelan 10 07 wonderful so let me ask you a quick question about bixby itself can you tell me where the name bixby came from? roger kibbe 10 14 that's a great question and i'm going to tell you i actually don't know why 10 18 don't we ask bixby oh, roger kibbe 10 20 might as well bixby know best tony morelan 10 24 hey, bixby where did the name bixby come from? 10 28 i've heard that in some cultures bixby means one with great intelligence who raps maybe that's why samsung chosen for me roger kibbe 10 35 very good there we go so bixby is not a name that's a samsung invented that name on the original voice assistant samsung has a little bit of a history there's something called s voice that then became bixby and the original bixby is really largely focused on controlling the phone and not so much a general purpose voice assistant and then when they bought vans, it was really to build that into general purpose voice assistant i will say that the name bixby is a good name for a voice assistant why is that? yeah, good question um, so when you say hi bixby or alexa, or hey, google, what happens is on the local device, it has to understand that phrase, and then most of the rest of the processing of anything you say, really is done in the cloud but you need local processing power on that device to say, hey, i heard that pacific wake up word okay and now i'll wake up and i'll start listening in order to do that, on the local device, you need to be saying something that's kind of got the right kind of syllables got enough syllables and has a mixture of vowels and consonants that make it easy to understand that term, because you don't want to wake up for a false wake word that's a problem in the industry, is i say something and your voices is it wakes up and you weren't addressing bixby is a really good term because of that consonants and vowels and the way they're mixed in there and then also just, it's short but phonetically, the way it sounds is pretty distinct and so whoever came up with that word, they were definitely thinking about this when they came up with that as the as the wake word for samsung's voice assistant tony morelan 12 22 got it? and it's a pretty unique word too so i would think that it's not getting confused with maybe you know, something that could be more common roger kibbe 12 28 yeah, although there is a bixby there's a city called bixby i believe in oklahoma and then down in just south of us around monterrey there's a bixby bridge so it's fairly unique, but there is actually there are other big cities in the world tony morelan 12 45 i did not know that roger kibbe 12 48 and build bixby on and bill bixby played the incredible hulk oh, yes, he did yeah so interesting okay so not a common word, but there are other uses the word bixby bixby says interesting tony morelan 13 03 so now you had mentioned that you know bixby was available on samsung devices can you talk a little bit about other devices? is it just strictly for samsung devices for their phones? or is it beyond the phone? roger kibbe 13 14 yeah, so is for samsung devices right now here's the situation right now so right now you can go and develop a bixby capsule and you can deploy it on a samsung phone and there's a marketplace for end users of the phones to go and enable your capsule think about market the marketplace is the equivalent of the play store, the samsung store, the ios, the app store, there but it's for voice applications capsules, as we call them so that's all enabled for a phone so you can build from end to end to get it out to consumers on the phones and that's the bixby marketplace that's the biggest marketplace what you can do right now though, is you can build for the tv samsung is the world's biggest tv manufacturer by a pretty significant margin the watch, we're the world's second largest smartphone watch manufacturer, and for smart appliances so we have a refrigerator that has a screen on it it's a smart appliance and we're we have huge market share and appliances so you can build for all those devices, which to my mind is super exciting because i think voice assistants currently have been kind of driven primarily by smart speakers that's the first thing they introduced and now they're on phones but that's led to a little bit of kind of smart, speaker centric or phone centric thinking about what you can do when you add voice to the tv, or the watch or an appliance you start thinking of whole different and unique use cases where voice can unlock some pretty rich functionality as you can say, i could wayne go on and on about this i get pretty excited about the opportunities on those additional devices and so you can develop today in those, and in the marketplace is coming later this year so super exciting stuff coming from us tony morelan 15 12 okay, wonderful so tell me a little bit about you'd mentioned the i know there are their voice assistant, you know, the application software out there how is bixby different than its competitors? roger kibbe 15 24 um, so first, i already talked about all those different devices yep right and i think that that's a key differentiator and let me dive in a little bit one because one, i'm particularly excited i'm particularly excited about the tv and why i'm excited about that is i look at my so my two teenage daughters, they don't watch tv without their smartphone in her hand so and they will stop the tv and play with a smartphone they want interactive tv, and it doesn't really exist today and so they use a smartphone to enable that now i generally, you know, a different generation tv is kind of a thing and i listened to it but i've been thinking about the tv and thinking about, hey, what happens the tv was voice enabled, and i can ask it things even when something is playing the best example i like to think about a sports course so let's say i'm watching a sports game like, oh man, i want to hear more about that player or i don't know i'm watching a football game and they call clipping and maybe i'm new to football, and they're like, what's clipping? wouldn't it be cool? if i could ask the tv? hey, watching the warriors on tv? hey, tell me how many points for game is stephen curry or who's stephen curry it is me overlays some information about stefan curry there and i can go back to watching the game or a football example hey, what's clipping and show me what's clipping is and i could better understand the game i think that's incredibly powerful to bring kind of interactivity, to tv a in and kind of empower what i see this kind of younger generation seems to want when they have their, their phones with the tv and quite frankly, i will often say we have we have some smart speakers next our tv and we'll pause and ask it a question so we want it to, yes, build that right in the tv, build it into where it just shows up and then goes away if you gave permission, you know, and i think there's some privacy implications to this, but about what you are watching on the tv to the voices, and then it could be really incredibly contextually aware and give you a really amazing information so i'm really excited about the devices that are that are coming out for samsung, and that's a differentiator the second big differentiator is really related to those devices all those devices have screens so if you look at the voice market today, and you look at let's talk about because they're obviously our competitors, alexa 85 to 90% of their devices are screaming just a smart speaker okay, on the google side, there's a lot of them, they do have on the phone, a lot of uses on their smart speakers that are in the home so most of what's being built is voice only with samsung devices, because all those devices i talked about, and it's fair to say in the future, most samsung devices will have a screen you need to build not only for a voice experience, but also a screen experience, that kind of multi-modality, which i think opens up a ton of opportunities and quite frankly, in some cases, some challenges around multi-modality and building that but it's a new frontier and a lot of ways to build truly multimodal experiences, where you can interact with voice and screen and think about how they interplay with each other tony morelan 18 49 so i hadn't heard of that term before so multi-modality that is where you have voice and screen at the same time on the same device roger kibbe 18 59 yeah, actually, i really refers to kind of you actually are using it today when you use the mouse and the keyboard so to put a different input mechanism, i say into that is multimodal, you know, i was talking about swiping and typing as the two prompt dominant modalities right now voice being a third one, i will tell you it's pretty interesting if you look at kind of the rise of those modalities we went from kind of keyboard and then about 10 years later, the mouse arose in the gui and then that and then about 10 years later, ah, smartphones with touchscreens were introduced there so swiping became and tapping became without, well guess what? smartphones of screens are just a little over 10 years old so by that 10-year cycle, it's about time for another modality to kind of arise sure and voice definitely looks like a modality it does not replace typing and swiping what it does is it augments, there's things where voice is the very best way to interact with technology there’re things we're typing in the very best way to interact with technology, there's things we're swiping in your smartphone, the very best way to interact with technology, it opens up a different way of interacting with technology and kind of powers us to do more with our tech tony morelan 20 21 so then, let me ask you, where do you see voice going, you know, in the next year, and then even beyond that, you know, for talking five to 10 years give me give me your thoughts, your ideas of where we really could be taking voice roger kibbe 20 33 yeah, so voice is in its infancy right now i like to say that we're at the point where we're kind of barking commands okay, at the voice assistance another one, which gives me a laugh, is we're in the fart app stage so that was the original apps on smartphones were all apps that party, right? yeah so we're kind of in that stage with voice right now really early what i think i'd like to see in the next year or two is a little beyond just parking command and actually get some things done i'm actually pretty bullish about voice commerce and if not actually going and buying things actually starting the buying process, and actually kind of that top of the funnel kind of marketing and there's a whole idea of paid marketing by listening to the radio or tv, it's a one way push toward me voice if i could have a conversation about a product or right, i want more information i don't kind of more of a pull marketing, i like to call it that and then i also, um, let me just jump in really quickly it sounds tony morelan 21 35 like what you're saying that maybe where this could go is like, if i'm actually listening to an ad on the radio, i could, in a sense, have a conversation and ask more questions about that product that's being told to me yeah, yeah, because that would be amazing roger kibbe 21 51 yeah so it's interesting because i'll mention so both spotify and pandora started you know, they have a free ad tier yes, and many are experimenting just in the last month or two in 2020, certainly, with this idea of, if they're on a device that has a speaker, and that and you're using their client, they'll play an ad and say, do you want to hear more? if you say, yes, get more information, you say, no, you don't right and that's really kind of infant kind of simple stuff works yeah, that's pretty exciting to me is, hey, you know, i, like all, many of us, you know, i kind of tune out the ads when i want to, but every once in a while, there's something i'm like, oh, that is really interesting i'd like to learn more about that or i'd like to call book market, of course so i think there's a huge opportunity there to say, hey, remind me of this or wow, that sounds really interesting i'd like to hear more and start a conversation there so that kind of interactive audio advertising i don't know when that's all going to happen but i'd sure like to see that happen in voice in the next few years i think you did ask about like longer term by 10 years out there tony morelan 23 03 yeah, definitely roger kibbe 23 04 yeah so i guess the industry likes to call this idea of ambient computing just computing around us that just does things for us and sometimes it's just ai that knows we need to get things done and kind of preemptively does it for us but voice is a big part of that i could just walk into my house and start talking to it, or in my car or in my office and talk and get things done i'm reminded of there's a funny scene in one of the star trek movies, i think it's one of the early ones when they go back in time and they go back to earth, in a running lead to a hospital and scotty sees a mouse and he picks it up, he starts talking to the mouse and of course, he doesn't do it he kind of mumbles under his breath about, you know, how advanced they are you know, maybe we're going to get there where voice works well enough, where much of our interaction with tech is done through voice scores yeah, like i said, i think we'll see keyboards have been around forever, they'll probably still be here in 10 years, and miles on swiping and typing, i just think there's a bunch of things that if we think about it, we can do better with voice or voice is part to that multi-modality, part of that interaction with our technology so that's what i like to seek out five or 10 years be kind of a, not a novel thing, like it is now in a lot of ways but it just you expect yeah, tony morelan 24 26 and it's, you know, it's crazy to think, you know, it seems like smartphones have been around forever but it was not that long ago that truly the first smartphone was introduced to us and 10 years from now is not much and just think about the advancements that definitely voice will take over that time roger kibbe 24 42 yeah, absolutely absolutely you know, like truly understanding yep human voices really hard i can say something to you in 10 different ways can you understand i'm seeing the same thing? oh, yeah that's really hard for an ai to do that yeah part of the challenges we have right now voice is when you're developing a voice application need to be pretty deterministic about if a user says this this way, then this is what you do and here's some variations and how they say, because the ai gets better, you won't have to be so deterministic in your development they'll just say, when the user intends this is their intention right? thank you yes, something like that that's going to be huge, huge unlock for the industry but it is a really hard ai problem tony morelan 25 32 yeah, you know, actually some of the biggest laughs that we get in our house, so it's when we listen to my wife try and talk to one of those voice automated systems that you see on phone systems when you're asking a question trying to be transferred to a different department and the phone system doesn't understand what my wife says she doesn't say it any differently she just says it more aggressively she gets mad or she gets angrier, but she's still saying the same terms and it's still sending her to the wrong department and you know, myself, the kids, we all are just laughing as she just gets have tried to deal with this really, you know, low level ai system roger kibbe 26 05 yeah, you know, this industry calls us ivr so they mostly been around for a long time and you know that the driver there was cost reduction right so it's expensive for a csr to answer phones cause reduction we all understand it, but sometimes doesn't put people first and i think you saw that with ivr it's funny when you were mentioning your wife getting frustrated and i likewise, um, you know, i will say hitting 0000 in an ivr often kicks you out of it but uh um, there's even websites that actually tell you how to if you're stuck in ivr hell, like this is how you say or this is the buttons you press to get out of that which is pretty funny but that you caught up in something i think is pretty interesting we can all feel as humans emotions in our voice, happiness, sadness, excited, bored that the there is a lot of research being done around voice assistance, understanding kind of the emotion in there because just hearing a voice we as humans hear obviously the words we also understand the emotion they're subtle cues and how we say things obviously, they're face to face there's also a body language one of the challenges and then ai i talked about, is it just understand it's saying, here's the words, what are those words mean? if i could understand the emotion of the user, that could be another input into my understanding, or if you're pissed and angry, and you're talking to an ai voice assistant, maybe you don't want it to be happy, full of personality and cracking jokes you want it to be direct and to the point and the other hand if you're having fun, maybe the personality of the voice assistant the personas industries likes to call it is more fun and crack some jokes in this kind of friendly i think there's a big unlock for voices systems to understand kind of the emotional cues that we as humans are giving with the tone and how we say things sure tony morelan 28 17 so let's talk a little bit about discoverability oh, you know, i can only imagine if there's a lot of third-party apps out there what's bixby doing to help make discoverability? a little easier? roger kibbe 28 27 yeah, there are a lot of third-party applications for all the voice assistance and part of the challenge is, you have to use the name so if i use if i call my voice app would say voice, the podcast helper okay, if i want to use the podcast helper, i have to say something like, ask podcast helper to start or ask podcast helper to play my favorite podcast the problem there is that ask podcast helper, i have to remember that phrase and i have to remember that term for the name of application the problem with discoverability is people don't remember that and so they don't use it and so if i just say, tell my voices to play my favorite podcasts, it's going to use whatever built in functionality it has to play podcasts as an example, and not podcasts helper, and not podcast helper on the other hand, podcast helper may be a better experience sure i, as a user, feel that podcast helper is my favorite way to listen to podcasts so what we did with big suzy, introduced late last year, somebody called natural language categories, and it's really to address that and the whole idea is, is these categories are way categories of interactions so like playing a podcast, podcast is one of our categories i'll give you another example and give you an actual real-world example weather is one of our categories so if i ask bixby what's the weather like? whatsoever like today, what's the weather like next week? what's the weather like? he will answer that in the built-in weather capsule i answered that, but i actually in my big city, so there is a weather capsule called big sky that i really like goes into more detail it's kind of for weather geeks, and i like weather and so in bixby once i enable big sky what i can do, because it's part of the natural light, the weather natural language category, i as an end user can go and say, i want this to be the default so the next time i say, hi bixby, what's the weather, big sky answers, built in weather functionality so what lets you do is choose and personalize your voices system the closest thing i mean, look, look at android phones look at samsung phones if you install two different map apps on an android phone, the first time you go to launch a map, it says hey, you have map app, a or have that be which one you want to use? and do you want to make one-year default? well, bixby has really exactly the same thing but for voice so what's the weather? like if i've enabled two of them and say, hey, you have weather capsule a, or you have big sky? which one would you like to use? would you like to make one the default? so i said, hey, use big sky and make it the default and from then on big sky answers that i can always go into settings and change that or i can always go back to that old kind of invocation name and say, ask weather app pay for the weather and it'll override, right because then i'm specifically addressing the name of a capsule, and that will answer so we've had this in about 20 different categories we keep on building these and thinking about it we think it's a big unlock to not only developers kind of solving this discoverability problem, but to my mind, even more importantly, as a consumer i said, i like big sky over the in weather app, but everybody has their own preferences there so let the consumer choose what they want their experience to be sure their favorite provider for x, y, or z, and really personalize the experience to the consumer so suddenly, it may come across in how i'm describing it, but we're definitely super excited about because he thinks there's such amazing possibilities there tony morelan 32 21 yeah, no, that sounds that sounds great so let's talk about getting started if developers or designers want to think about getting into voice, what advice would you give them? yeah, so a couple roger kibbe 32 30 things come to mind the first is when you're thinking about what you want to build is voice the best interface for it right so, you know, obviously, i'm a fan of voice i think it's amazing i also think there's areas where typing on a keyboard, or swiping on a screen or better interfaces, right for what you're trying to do so you need to think about if it's easy are faster or better to do it swiping or typing i probably shy away from it okay on the other hand, if it's hard or difficult, i always like to think about things where i'm like, wow, i got to go through 12 different menus to go do this wow voice might be really amazing there so if you're going to replace some functionality, think about stuff that were voices a better interface or where voice is just brand new, it would not work well without voice being the kind of the modality with which you interact with that technology so that's number one number two, i'd say is follow your passion okay, you know, the very best apps, pc, a phone or for voice are typically where the developer had some passion about it so it really comes through so if you're passionate about cooking, hmm, maybe there's something cooking voice experience you can build if you're passionate about exercise maybe there's an exercise voice experience you can build so i say, follow your passions, because you're going to build something that passion will come through to people using your app and you know what? it's going to be a heck of a lot more fun to build yeah if it's something that follows your passions, you want to build something that you use right, exactly this is fun i'd use it this is so cool i want to share it with the world tony morelan 34 28 yeah, yeah, i think that's a lot of great entrepreneurs get started as they're doing something that they want, that they're excited about and then they worry about, you know, the money in the marketing later but yeah, completely agree with you so, in doing a little research for this interview, i, i discovered i learned that you actually host your own podcast tell me a little bit about the bixby developers chat podcast that you host roger kibbe 34 56 yeah, yeah so just started that in january this year, you know how to get started, i went and told my boss and said, i want to start a podcast he said, go for it i don't know what that means i mean, he knew what it meant but it was kind of like, go for it let's figure it out and see how it works and really the genesis is, you know, every time i go to a voice conference, i have these kinds of long in-depth kind of conversations with people around hey, what are you building with voice? what's your thinking about it? where can you go in the future? and i really wanted to share some of those conversations with the world you know, i'm passionate about voice and these great conversations with it to my earlier point about what you're passionate about, go share it, so wanted to go share it with the world and so i think we're done we've done 11 podcasts right now we do one every two weeks on breeding, typically people in the voice industry in when we talk about what they're doing, what they've built what they think the future will look like on these our general conversations we definitely talk about bixby somewhat, but i really the whole idea was a little bit kind of a halo effect is hey, people who are interested in voice would go listen to this podcast and yeah, absolutely we want them to go listen and go, hey, i got to go check out that bixby and go try it out or develop something on it i like what those guys are doing yeah but the podcast yep, wide ranging i've talked to voice designers, i talked to some podcasters i've talked to developers and i continue to think of who would be an interesting guest to talk about it it's a lot of fun um, i continue enjoy it listenership seems to be growing pretty well so i don't know for one podcaster to another yeah, i think podcasting is a lot of fun tony morelan 36 48 yeah, definitely so for our podcasting fans how can they find your podcast? where are you guys hosted? what's it called? roger kibbe 36 54 yeah, great question bixby developers chat so any of your major podcast players, if you start searching for bixby, your bixby developers that'll come across we're also built in the bixby capsule so if you enable it you can say hi bixby, play bixby developers chat and then we're online if you just search for bixby developers chat, and you can see it and please listen, and then let me know what you like your what you'd like to see in the future i think a lot of the value of podcasting is listening to your audience and they'll say, i love this i'd like more of this, less of this love to hear about it tony morelan 37 31 wonderful so you've been around voice for a long time in fact, you know, not just with your podcast, but prior to that with all of your work with voice i'm sure you've got a lot of experiences around voice so tell me some of your favorite experiences and why roger kibbe 37 43 yeah, i'm going to say maybe my favorite capsule and bixby is something built in it's the yelp capsule and why i really like that is i talked earlier about i said, grace is a great way to interface in many ways, but not always so voice is a really great input modality so if i wanted to find a chinese restaurant in san francisco, that's open past 10pm on saturday nights that's a pretty easy you, you can understand exactly what i'm saying sure, um, there's a lot of information than that now think about that if i was to search using a typical web interface, right, there's a lot of clicking and typing and things like that and drilling down i need to do there yeah, but if i just ask the bixby oh, capsule, something like that, it could parse all that input, and then show me the results so it's great for input modality on the other hand, i get a list of restaurants and a list of restaurants via voice may be kind of overwhelming so that's a great place where the screen etc screen, this list here and then i kind of go back to touch when i swipe through those and touch and find more information why i like that is it's a great example of multi-modality and kind of using the mix the modalities together so the yelp capsule and bixby the other thing i'll say one of my favorite things to do on voice is, or just generally is i love trivia there’re some pretty fun voice trivia experiences one i really like on a very popular question of the day it's actually quite simple but really well done so boom, start question of the day aspects be hi bixby star question of the day, it gives you one question, multiple choice answers if you get the answer right, you get a bonus question and you can ask that what's really well done in that is the content is really well done so the questions are great, the content is great i'm going to say our content is king invoice and that's a great example it's incredibly simple what they built but incredibly great because the content so great, there's experience that isn't on bixby i'd love to see come to bixby what's that? it's a trivia game called feel the pressure feel the pressure which is on alexa yeah and you've done great content and really great sound effects the sound effects in that game made me want to play that game more and i love the thinking of what set sound effects and the impact upon your kind of psyche are so i love that game but yeah, those are two examples of things that i think are done really, really well with voice tony morelan 40 22 excellent, excellent laughter definitely check those out so if people want to learn more about bixby or even you as an evangelist, what's the best way for them to get in touch with you? roger kibbe 40 29 yeah so for bixby so www bixbydevelopers com that is our website and by the way, that is where you can go i mean, today, you can start developing for bixby so you download the bixby developer studio or id, you can do all your development there's even a simulator in there so if you don't yet have a samsung device, you can go and build that simulator and just from a phone to watch the tv and smart appliance so you can build all that so that's www bixbydevelopers com kind of your home hub for everything big sweet the other things i'd say follow us on social we try to be pretty active on twitter so at bixby developers can also find us at facebook bixby developers search for bixby developers on social myself i am definitely pretty active on twitter at roger kibbe i love to talk about voice what people are doing, what's happening, learn about new areas that people are exploring so let's connect and continue the conversation on twitter tony morelan 41 37 excellent, excellent so let me ask you a few questions about bixby studio so that's the software that's used to create your capsules tell me a little bit about getting bixby studio is this free? does it cost? roger kibbe 41 49 yeah, hundred percent free you literally it's on the homepage of bixby developers calm for mac, windows and linux you download it it's a full-blown id with develop debug, there's a testing suite in there there's a simulator, like i said, so you can go from end to end testing and you all do it in that id, there's no it automatically syncs to the cloud that's actually kind of a big competitive advantage for us is our idx some of our competitors require you to do things and kind of sync to the cloud or use two different interfaces everything in bixby developer studio isn't one you can do it all there and do all your development there until you're ready to submit to the marketplace and then you start that within that, that studio as well so is there a process where developers have to be approved to publish their capsules? yeah, so much like what happens with the other voice assistants and happens in various mobile phone app stores there is a process so you submit your capsule with information for the marketplace and that is some information with the reviewers if necessary, and then there's a review process and they make sure you know, there's certain rules around, you know, appropriate content, or have you does that actually work particularly tricky with voice, right? people won't always phrase something the same way so you want to build over flexibility you create these things called hints, which are kind of phrases that will kick off your voice experience or capsule you want those to work so the reviewers check all that and make sure it all works and if that's all working, then we'll go live in the marketplace and if it doesn't, they'll give you some feedback one of the things we're particularly proud about is our developer kind of outreach in a lot of areas around there and if somebody doesn't pass, we try to give really useful feedback about hey, here's what you need to fix and we also get feedback around hey, this, maybe this went live, but this could be even better x, y or z because it's always in our interest to have really great capsules on the marketplace, so our developers spend our, our capsule review team spends a little more time reviewing things, because part of their job is to give some constructive feedback on sure you know, good degrade, i like to say, tony morelan 44 18 exactly so not just does it work or does it not, you know, pass or fail? you're actually giving more insight on how to improve this to get more success yeah, roger kibbe 44 25 absolutely tony morelan 44 26 wow that's great that's great all right so i am going to finish off with our last question here, our last topic, in doing a little research on viv labs and adam shire i came across this penn and teller video of him doing magic so and i've been found some other videos of adam doing magic, and i'm wondering, does magic work its way into viv labs i mean, a little bit about that roger kibbe 44 53 yeah, so absolutely this so adam is actually this pretty talented amateur magician he probably kickoff professional if you really put his mind to it so he loves to talk about magic and he seems to know everyone in the magic industry, he's incredibly well connected there um, so a couple things happen one, we have what we call friday magic so every friday afternoon, kind of near the end of the day, we have a magician come in use of magic, which is really kind of a cool way to start the weekend, you know? sure all right, you know, the work week is over, well laugh and be entertained with some magic and then we all we all go home that happens it's a lot of fun we definitely when we go to trade shows, we often bring magician in place, sometimes very entertaining results there but yeah, it's just one of these fun little side things that happens we had that friday, magic we talked about it we do it at trade shows and yeah, it makes me smile thinking about it tony morelan 45 59 yeah no, that's awesome that those things were great it was a it was a nice discovery well, hey, roger, absolutely appreciate you taking the time this has been a great interview i love getting to know more about you and also about bixby and voice so again, thank you very much for joining me on today's podcast roger kibbe 46 13 oh, my pleasure always love to talk to voice thanks so much tony morelan 46 17 so before i end this show, i want to do something a little fun with bixby bixby said she can rap but i want to know hey bixby, can you beatbox? roger kibbe 46 28 check this out outro 46 39 looking to start creating for samsung, download the latest tools to code your next app, or get software for designing apps without coding at all sell your apps to the world on the samsung galaxy store check out developer samsung com today and start your journey with samsung the pow! podcast is brought to you by the samsung developer program and produced by tony morelan
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blogthe 2022 samsung developer conference in san francisco showcased some of samsung’s latest innovations in technology. this year spotlighted samsung’s brilliant minds innovating a calm technology ecosystem that gives consumers more seamless experiences in their daily lives. every year we kick off sdc with a keynote speech. this year jonghee han, head of the device experience (dx) division, shared how samsung electronics is crafting systems that help make lives smarter, safer, more convenient, and more connected than ever before. covering everything from knox matrix to holistic household platforms like bixby home studio and smartthings. jh han, vice chairman, ceo and head of device experience (dx) division for those interested in learning more, discover the developer updates shared at sdc in this blog post. samsung electronics integrates matter into the smartthings ecosystem jaeyeon jung, corporate vice president at samsung electronics and head of smartthings, shared how developers can maximize calm technology in the home by tapping into smartthings new integration with matter. jaeyeon jung, vp and head of smartthings, mobile experience business matter-enabled devices will join numerous products and brands already available within smartthings’ vast ecosystem, including devices from google, eve systems, honeywell home by resideo, linksys, nanoleaf, philips hue, schlage, wemo, yale, and more. developers, we invite you to build code with matter-enabled devices and watch the many smartthings tech sessions. dolby atmos releases a 3-d audio plugin for samsung mobile matthew reyes from dolby announced dolby atmos’ a new audio plugin with audiokinetic. the audio plugin enables game developers to create a 3-d surround sound effect for galaxy buds and samsung mobile. now players can feel every part of the action on their phones. dolby’s free plugin offers developers a chance to create an even better immersive experience. check out dolby’s tech session, which provides a plugin tutorial. samsung open-sources bothandy project sebastien seung and the team at samsung research america released samsung bothandy’s "openbothandy" open-source project. openbothandy provides manipulation benchmark scenarios, real-time simulation, and baseline manipulation codes. sebastian seung, president and head of samsung research experiment with samsung bothandy and advance robot manipulation technologies. bixby home studio simplifies voice commands bixby's developer evangelist, roger kibbe, shared what’s new with bixby developer studio and bixby home studio. this year's newest update is bixby home studio's voice control optimization tool on smartthings home devices. asr, nlu, and an entire command system are now completed locally on one device. what this means is bixby home studio allows developers to create code that helps consumers complete multiple tasks with a single command on the phone. imagine, you can ask to turn on your ac, and bixby home studio also checks to see if you have any windows open. roger kibbe, senior developer evangelist, north america bixby labs listen to roger’s tech session for more updates and start developing with bixby home studio. samsung health stack optimizes research studies principal engineer jinwoo song from samsung research’s data research team demonstrated how samsung health stack helps developers, engineers, and health professionals optimize research related to digital health using wearable devices. with samsung health stack’s app sdk, developers can create mobile apps that collect data from participants. applications include medical research studies, clinician services, or whatever your imagination envisions. tune in to jinwoo's recorded tech session, and contribute your visions to samsung health stack. relive sdc22 if you’re not done exploring the latest tech innovations, we welcome you to get inspired by sdc from the comfort of your home. you can experience sdc22 all over again–from watching the highlights to accessing the tech sessions on-demand. thank you for reading through our developer announcement for sdc22 events in the past. let us know your favorite moments from sdc by tagging us with the hashtag #sdc22 on twitter, facebook, linkedin, and youtube to continue the discussion.
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blogthe first day of #sdc2018 is behind us and what a day it was. a crowd of developers, creators, designers, partners and sponsors gathered at the moscone center here in downtown san francisco to hear how samsung is making breakthroughs in ai, iot, and redefining the mobile experience. providing developers with powerful new tools for the bixby and smartthings platforms to create connected consumer experiences. and of course, announcing the revolutionary one ui and infinity flex display. if you didn't get a chance to tune in live, you can catch the replay. the day unfolded with a lot of big announcements and here are the highlights: building bixby’s scale and reach with developers as part of samsung’s announcement to evolve bixby into a scalable intelligence platform, they introduced the bixby developer studio. the collection of tools provides an intuitive way for developers and partners to infuse intelligence into more services and devices. developers will be able to easily create bixby capsules – features or services created for bixby – and make them easily accessible to consumers in the bixby marketplace. the bixby platform will allow developers to easily adapt their capsules for all products across the samsung ecosystem. these changes will allow developers to bring a more conversational, personal and useful intelligent assistant experience to more consumers. enhancing smartthings to deliver a connected lifestyle for everyone next, samsung announced they’re making it faster and easier for developers to connect their devices and services to the smartthings platform. a redesigned smartthings developer workspace was introduced with a new suite of enhanced tools including smartthings cloud connector, smartthings device kit and smartthings hub connector. developers can build and launch on the platform, as well as easily integrate cloud-connected zigbee and z-wave devices. these updates mark a big step forward in samsung’s connected living vision centered around an open iot ecosystem that unites the growing number of connected devices on a single platform. available in more than 200 markets around the world, smartthings delivers a connected experience in a single app, to bring iot beyond the smart home and into the car, office and everywhere in-between. additionally, the upgraded works with smartthings (wwst) certification program gives developers direct access to smartthings experts and resources. wwst helps ensure devices and services are fully optimized for the platform, so consumers enjoy the best possible experience. pioneering user experience and display innovation finally, samsung introduced big innovations in mobile software and hardware. first, they unveiled a new and intuitive interface design called one ui. its clean and minimal design keeps the most relevant content on the bottom half of the screen – making it more natural and comfortable for one-handed use. the experience was reengineered to reduce clutter and distractions, allowing the user to better focus and quickly navigate their phone. continuing their legacy of introducing category-defining form factor and display innovation, samsung unveiled their foldable smartphone form factor. the infinity flex display together with one ui delivers a new kind of mobile experience. users now have the best of both worlds: a compact smartphone that unfolds to reveal a larger immersive display for multitasking and viewing content. the app experience seamlessly transitions from the smaller display to the larger display as the device unfolds. because the infinity flex display is a next generation platform, samsung invites developers to participate in this journey from the beginning. working collaboratively with google and the android developer community, samsung will maximize the potential of this new form factor to create an optimized foldable user experience. fold it, and it's a #smartphone. unfold it and it's a #tablet. in a word, wow. @samsung #sdc18 #tech. can be folded and unfolded repeatedly. again, wow. pic.twitter.com/r2eoyxcsol— mikefeibus - be well, people! (@mikefeibus) november 7, 2018 very interesting bixby natural language programming user interface that then compiles to test and tweak. i have never seen anything like this. very cool. ai used to program ai. how meta. #sdc18 pic.twitter.com/z5ebenl3eq— patrick moorhead (@patrickmoorhead) november 7, 2018 this story of #screentechnology innovation samsung has been thru is impressive #sdc18 pic.twitter.com/b2cujgxwrd— carolina milanesi (@caro_milanesi) november 7, 2018 “best of 2018” galaxy apps awards winners announced in addition to a day full of highlights, samsung took time to recognize the creators and developers behind the most innovative and popular apps on the galaxy apps store in the first-ever “best of 2018” galaxy apps awards. here are the winners in five different categories: best overall app: booking.com for samsung best gaming app: disney heroes by perblue best gear app: wrist camera by kema studio best gear watch face designer: bergen best theme designer: guangxu zhu all winners received an exclusive “best of 2018” badge and premium app merchandising in the galaxy apps u.s. and canada stores. the award-winning apps and content will also be featured across samsung developer program’s social and digital marketing channels. here are your #bestof2018 winners for the first ever samsung galaxy apps awards at #sdc18!— samsung developers (@samsung_dev) november 8, 2018 and that was just day one. day two will bring more exciting announcements and dev insights. watch for the second installment of the the dev discourse – a daily roundup from #sdc18 and of course, follow us on twitter @samsung_dev and join the conversation using #sdc18.
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codelabcontrol a smart bulb objective control a smart light bulb and change its color using bixby home studio overview bixby home studio bhs provides a simple and optimized way for accessing and controlling devices connected to your smartthings account you can quickly create complex diagrams and condition-based flows with bhs's user-friendly graphical user interface gui any device compatible with smartthings can be adjusted, controlled, and updated through bixby home studio for more information, visit getting started with bixby home studio set up your environment you will need the following samsung and smartthings account same email address smart rgb light bulb added to smartthings account virtual switch from smartthings labs if a smart rgb light bulb is not available a go to smartthings app b in the menu, select labs c choose virtual switch and click + to add a virtual switch d enter the name of virtual switch, location, and room notewhen you use a virtual switch, you can only create metadata and test the turning on and off functionality however, a physical smart rgb light bulb is necessary for testing other functions of this code lab activity, such as changing the light bulb color to red smartthings labs feature is available only on android app in us, canada, uk, india, and south korea start your project go to bhs bixbydevelopers com and sign in using your samsung account create a new project select your smartthings location and smart rgb light bulb or virtual switch for the device click create metadata from scratch then, click next choose powerswitch under bixby voice category select the powerswitch-turnoff and powerswitch-turnon voice intents click next input a project name and click done use a sample graph to switch on the bulb sample graphs are various example action flows that you can explore to learn more about the different voice intents, nodes, and smartthings capabilities you can use these sample graphs as starter points for your own devices each sample graph generically handles specific capabilities covered under various user utterances through the different voice intents for example, the turn on device sample graph works for any device it covers a variety of user utterances such as "turn on air conditioner ", "turn on fan ", "turn on speaker ”, and so on follow the steps below to use the turn on device sample graph to switch on the device go to voice intents > powerswitch-turnon > graph click the sample graphs icon on the left sidebar menu to show all the available sample graphs scroll down to see the turn on device sample graph or find it using the search bar drag and drop the sample graph into your powerswitch-turnon graph editor click try it to turn on your light bulb noteif you're using a virtual switch, it will turn on, but you won't be able to see the switch itself however, you can see the state of the virtual switch change from off to on in the smartthings app turn off the light bulb and add an alternative response the turn on device sample graph functions to switch on the device when the start node triggers the command node this graph can be modified to reverse its function, to do that copy the nodes from the powerswitch-turnon graph to the powerswitch-turnoff graph editor click the command node to open the node configuration pane and change the command from on to off right-click on the command node and change its comment to turn off device click try it to turn off the device after the command is performed, the response is either success or execution failed to make the light bulb more responsive, design the graph to provide different responses depending on whether the light bulb is already off or currently on a click the raw button and delete the existing code in the raw graph b copy and paste the following json into it and click add [{"nodeid" "5b648da1-a2c3-4912-baff-a559b968070e","nodever" "1 0","nodetype" "capabilityattribute","isstateful" true,"group" null,"inputports" {"device" {"nodes" [],"portinfo" null}},"triggerports" {"success" {"nodes" ["ccf1cbb8-c99b-439f-8246-bc9e7b7abfbf"],"portinfo" null},"failure" {"nodes" [],"portinfo" null}},"valueports" {},"triggerinports" {},"configurations" {"attribute" {"datatype" "datatype schema afcapabilityattribute","datavalue" {"component" "main","capability" "switch","attribute" "switch","property" {"name" "value","datatype" "datatype primitive afstring"}}},"required" {"datatype" "datatype primitive afboolean","datavalue" true}},"styles" {"x" 415,"y" 360}},{"nodeid" "ccf1cbb8-c99b-439f-8246-bc9e7b7abfbf","nodever" "1 0","nodetype" "equalcomparison","isstateful" true,"group" null,"inputports" {"leftvalue" {"nodes" ["5b648da1-a2c3-4912-baff-a559b968070e"],"portinfo" null},"rightvalue" {"nodes" ["8d9bf8ec-7cb1-4ffe-b4c0-b0424d394027"],"portinfo" null}},"triggerports" {"true" {"nodes" ["593250c4-9c19-4155-8f90-1318f9484aab"],"portinfo" null},"false" {"nodes" ["a9c4d152-eb0d-45d2-a2bd-20217de6fee6"],"portinfo" null}},"valueports" {},"triggerinports" {},"configurations" {"operator" {"datatype" "datatype operator equalcomparisonoperator","datavalue" "equalto"}},"styles" {"x" 585,"y" 332}},{"nodeid" "8d9bf8ec-7cb1-4ffe-b4c0-b0424d394027","nodever" "1 0","nodetype" "constant","isstateful" true,"group" null,"inputports" {},"triggerports" {},"valueports" {},"triggerinports" {},"configurations" {"value" {"datatype" "datatype primitive afstring","datavalue" "on"}},"styles" {"x" 415,"y" 500}},{"nodeid" "a9c4d152-eb0d-45d2-a2bd-20217de6fee6","nodever" "1 0","nodetype" "responsefeaturealreadyset","isstateful" true,"group" null,"inputports" {},"triggerports" {},"valueports" {},"triggerinports" {},"configurations" {},"styles" {"x" 635,"y" 480}}] c four nodes were added to the graph an attribute node that receives and passes an on or off value; a constant node with on as its value; an equal comparison node that compares if the attribute value is equal to the constant value; and a response already set node d rewire the graph to make it work properly by clicking the line coming from the start node and pressing the delete key e create a new line from the start node and connect it to the attribute node's trigger port f connect the equal comparison node's true port to the command node's trigger port g click the align button a couple of times to automatically organize the graph h then, click try it while the device is already off or already on, to observe the different responses change the light bulb's color based on time the command node has two capabilities that can adjust the color of light bulb, such as colorcontrol and colortemperature in this step, use these command node capabilities together with the get current datetime node and get datetime attributes node to set the light bulb's color to red or warm, if the current date time is 8 00 pm or later otherwise, the light bulb's color remains blue add the following json into the powerswitch-turnon graph [{"nodeid" "a31659e2-68fc-42b6-8076-01c2cb9fec23","nodever" "1 0","nodetype" "getcurrentdatetime","isstateful" true,"group" null,"inputports" {"__zoneid" {"nodes" [],"portinfo" null}},"triggerports" {"main" {"nodes" ["ea58c225-7d40-45b9-85d6-d8d941de9b2e"],"portinfo" null}},"valueports" {},"triggerinports" {},"configurations" {},"styles" {"x" 715,"y" 280}},{"nodeid" "ea58c225-7d40-45b9-85d6-d8d941de9b2e","nodever" "1 0","nodetype" "getdatetimeattributes","isstateful" true,"group" null,"inputports" {"input" {"nodes" ["a31659e2-68fc-42b6-8076-01c2cb9fec23"],"portinfo" null}},"triggerports" {"main" {"nodes" ["880416f6-d288-4b97-b763-2abd46bf2737"],"portinfo" null}},"valueports" {"seconds" {"name" "seconds"},"month" {"name" "month"},"hour" {"name" "hour"},"year" {"name" "year"},"minutes" {"name" "minutes"},"timestampinseconds" {"name" "timestampinseconds"},"day" {"name" "day"}},"triggerinports" {},"configurations" {},"styles" {"x" 815,"y" 280}},{"nodeid" "880416f6-d288-4b97-b763-2abd46bf2737","nodever" "1 0","nodetype" "comparablecomparison","isstateful" true,"group" null,"inputports" {"leftvalue" {"nodes" ["gr //node/ea58c225-7d40-45b9-85d6-d8d941de9b2e/value/hour"],"portinfo" null},"rightvalue" {"nodes" ["606796bc-d8ea-4421-942d-91544271615d"],"portinfo" null}},"triggerports" {"true" {"nodes" ["b2ba65ab-5e3e-4615-8d3a-79015a03d7bc"],"portinfo" null},"false" {"nodes" [],"portinfo" null}},"valueports" {},"triggerinports" {},"configurations" {"operator" {"datatype" "datatype operator comparablecomparisonoperator","datavalue" "greaterthanorequalto"}},"styles" {"x" 975,"y" 320}},{"nodeid" "606796bc-d8ea-4421-942d-91544271615d","nodever" "1 0","nodetype" "constant","isstateful" true,"group" null,"inputports" {},"triggerports" {},"valueports" {},"triggerinports" {},"configurations" {"value" {"datatype" "datatype primitive afinteger","datavalue" 20}},"styles" {"x" 815,"y" 420}},{"nodeid" "2b22b1a1-b9cb-4881-a861-3bf74ccd7847","nodever" "1 0","nodetype" "capabilitycommand","isstateful" true,"group" null,"inputports" {"device" {"nodes" [],"portinfo" null},"1 color" {"nodes" ["2389baa9-db45-4eb3-a40c-1166bf1e620f"],"portinfo" {"datatypes" ["undefined"],"minitems" 1,"maxitems" 1,"iscustomport" true}}},"triggerports" {"success" {"nodes" ["a31659e2-68fc-42b6-8076-01c2cb9fec23"],"portinfo" null},"failure" {"nodes" [],"portinfo" null}},"valueports" {},"triggerinports" {},"configurations" {"commands" {"datatype" "datatype util aflist","datavalue" [{"datatype" "datatype schema afcapabilitycommand","datavalue" {"component" "main","capability" "colorcontrol","command" "setcolor","arguments" [{"datatype" "datatype schema afcommandargument","datavalue" {"name" "color","optional" false,"datatype" "datatype primitive afjsonobject"}}]}}]}},"styles" {"x" 590,"y" 274}},{"nodeid" "2389baa9-db45-4eb3-a40c-1166bf1e620f","nodever" "1 0","nodetype" "constant","isstateful" true,"group" null,"inputports" {},"triggerports" {},"valueports" {},"triggerinports" {},"configurations" {"value" {"datatype" "datatype primitive afjsonobject","datavalue" {"hue" 55,"saturation" 55}}},"styles" {"x" 675,"y" 440}},{"nodeid" "b2ba65ab-5e3e-4615-8d3a-79015a03d7bc","nodever" "1 0","nodetype" "capabilitycommand","isstateful" true,"group" null,"inputports" {"device" {"nodes" [],"portinfo" null},"1 temperature" {"nodes" ["4d02fcda-df99-4c75-8b0a-73bb67933acd"],"portinfo" {"datatypes" ["undefined"],"minitems" 1,"maxitems" 1,"iscustomport" true}}},"triggerports" {"success" {"nodes" [],"portinfo" null},"failure" {"nodes" [],"portinfo" null}},"valueports" {},"triggerinports" {},"configurations" {"commands" {"datatype" "datatype util aflist","datavalue" [{"datatype" "datatype schema afcapabilitycommand","datavalue" {"component" "main","capability" "colortemperature","command" "setcolortemperature","arguments" [{"datatype" "datatype schema afcommandargument","datavalue" {"name" "temperature","optional" false,"datatype" "datatype primitive afinteger"}}]}}]}},"styles" {"x" 1115,"y" 380}},{"nodeid" "4d02fcda-df99-4c75-8b0a-73bb67933acd","nodever" "1 0","nodetype" "constant","isstateful" true,"group" null,"inputports" {},"triggerports" {},"valueports" {},"triggerinports" {},"configurations" {"value" {"datatype" "datatype primitive afinteger","datavalue" 500}},"styles" {"x" 975,"y" 478}}] rewire the graph as follows a delete the wire that connects command switch node's success port and response success node's trigger port b connect the command switch node's success port to the command colorcontrol node's trigger port c connect the command colortemperature node's success port to the response success node's trigger port d connect the numerical comparison node's false port to the response success node's trigger port noteadd a constant node with time zone, for example america/new_york, as string value if you want to test this section based on your local time click align then, click try it to see how the light bulb color change based on time you're done! congratulations! you have successfully achieved the goal of this code lab now, you can control a smart light bulb using bixby home studio if you face any trouble, you may download this file control bulb complete code 25 72 kb notewatch this short clip to quickly know how to navigate your way in this code lab and to see how easy it is to use bixby home studio to learn more about bixby, visit developer samsung com/bixby
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blogsamsung developer conference is where now meets next. it’s two days of learning and inspiration where samsung introduces new technology for the now and a greater vision for what’s next. join fellow developers to imagine future possibilities and master the skills to realize them. at last year’s conference, samsung broke barriers and redefined technology with announcements on one ui, bixby developer studio, and more. plus, devs learned about the latest sdks directly from samsung engineers during hands-on code labs. technical sessions provided more updates on a range of topics, including bixby and the new exponential frontier of intelligent assistants, which was one of the most attended sessions in 2018. key leaders from the samsung team broke down what bixby was, why it was different, how to capitalize on it, tips for integration, and more. sdc19 will be one for the books sdc19 will once again operate at the intersection of now and next with two days of exciting code labs, demos, technical sessions, and keynotes with the industry’s leading experts. discover the latest in tech with groundbreaking sessions on bixby, ai, blockchain, wearables, and more. every element of this year's conference is about the developer experience, including the brand identity. for sdc19, emoticons were created out of programming code — a playful representation of the developers, creators, technologists, and samsung pros that make up the conference’s diverse audience. emoticons symbolize what tiny bits of code can create when thoughtfully assembled. get early bird pricing grab your spot today for samsung developer conference and save $150! don't miss your chance to experience cutting-edge technology, network with tech leaders, and learn samsung's latest dev tools first-hand. see you there on october 29–30 at the san jose convention center. already registered? we can’t wait to see you! in the meantime, follow us on facebook, twitter, linkedin, and instagram for the latest updates on sessions, speakers, and more.
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blogdevelopers, designers, and partners all gathered in the san jose convention center for day 1 of sdc19. the day unfolded with big announcements, inspiring messages, and new updates on tools and sdks that allow developers to scale their services across billions of devices through an extensive, secure and connected ecosystem. check out the highlights below! 1. keynote samsung is advancing experience innovation, in collaboration with developers and partners. in the keynote, dj koh and other samsung leaders laid out the roadmap for the company’s future and highlighted some important product announcements. from new mobile computing experiences with one ui 2 to the smartthings rules api. highlighting ai expansion with bixby templates, devjam, bixby views, and natural language categories, there was plenty to help developers reach more customers on more devices than ever before. sdc19 also showcased how samsung is forging new partnerships with brands such as ibm, microsoft, intel, and more. if you couldn’t attend the keynote, watch the livestream video here or check out these key announcements on what’s next for samsung: redefining the mobile experience samsung is dedicated to expanding and improving the mobile experience. one ui 2 was announced at sdc19’s keynote and is designed for everyday simplicity. it includes new features that declutter the user interface making interactions more natural. now, the developer and user should have consistent experiences across all devices, not just smartphones. one ui 2.0 also show how samsung inspires developers with new experiences across devices and new form factors in the foldable category. devs, get excited! https://twitter.com/samsung_dev/status/1189248674263715840 8k strides for smart tv we know that picture quality is important to developers, and rightfully so. with ai scalenet, we’ve made it possible to stream high-quality 8k videos on networks with lower bandwidth capabilities. plus, check out these tools to help you bring new experiences across the nearly 100 million tizen-powered smart tvs. wits: automatically uploads a code edit to the tv, so developers can see their update almost immediately, significantly trimming development time easyst: makes testing content playback easier because you don’t need to build a test app to make sure your content is streaming correctly tifa (tizen identifier for advertising): gives consumers the option to limit ad tracking or opt-out of targeted advertising third-party availability: samsung is making tizen tv os available to third-party tv makers samsung’s open ecosystem every dev knows about bixby marketplace, and in the past six months the size of the bixby developer community has doubled! to make it easier for developers to keep creating new experiences and to ensure consumers have more intuitive experiences, samsung announced enhanced capabilities in the bixby developer studio. get excited! bixby templates: create capsules using pre-existing forms – adam cheyer built one in seconds at sdc19’s keynote! enhanced bixby views: build capsules with a consistent design beyond just smartphones — the list includes tvs, tablets, smart watches, and refrigerators natural language: when users ask bixby for help related to a category — such as radio, news, or navigatio – bixby suggests a capsule to help them get what they need more quickly and easily, without having to call out the exact capsule name https://twitter.com/samsung_dev/status/1189235374641635328 and the ai/iot highlights weren’t just about bixby! samsung announced new capabilities for devs to build on and integrate existing devices with the smartthings platform. new rules api: a more automated smart home experiences that reflects individual daily routines across a broad range of smartthings devices smartthings device sdk beta program: goes live in early 2020 to enable more third-party manufacturers to create smartthings-compatible devices https://twitter.com/samsung_dev/status/1189239141323755526 2. best of galaxy store awards samsung celebrated app devs and designers at sdc19 today by announcing its best of galaxy store awards 2019 selections — an annual list of what we consider to be the best content available in the galaxy store. here’s the full list of winners! best theme designer (big brand) cogul planet best theme design echo visuals whimsical woods (premium animated aod) best indie theme designer x9 studio best theme brand collaboration cogul planet mlb themes best watch designer (big brand) matteo dini best watchface design summer vacation best indie watch designer vienna studios best watch app igear radio best app to relax with headspace best productivity app degoo best made for samsung app rosetta stone 1:1 english tutoring for samsung best social app tiktok best streaming app mixer best creative app concepts best indie app homeadvisor best travel app app in the air for samsung best use of galaxy store badge skillz best indie game two dots best multiplayer badland brawls best ar game harry potter wizards unite best choose your own adventure hollywood story best casual game candy crush friends saga best adventure game sonic forces best role playing game game of sultans best racing game asphalt 9: legends 3. key tech sessions from day 1 we took note of the most-attended tech sessions from day 1! check out what fellow devs were most excited to learn about. new era of data insights with samsung health: 166 people came to hear jack ahn share how to extract value from data and verifiable insights to close the loop in the end-to-end user health journey. attendees discovered how to build insightful services for their users with a data insight platform that encompasses blockchain and ml models on-device. iot 2.0: the next phase of smartthings: 150 people joined aloknath de, yan rodriguez, and yeshodhan kulkarni to learn more about the smartthings platform service, integrated devices, and future plans for the smartthings iot business. this session specifically related back to the keynote and explored improvements made to the smartthings platform to enable stronger business growth for partners and developers, and highlighted ways new partners can join the smartthings ecosystem. progressive web apps and the evolution of the web: 129 people wanted to learn more about building and distributing apps using web technologies with luis gonzalez-zuniga, dongwoo im, laura morinigo, and jeff burtoft. progressive web apps (pwa) leverages new capabilities that allow for better integration of your app into the os. the in-depth session dove into new features and tools and how pwas can take advantage of webapk, oneui css, and more. 4. devs + drinks after an exciting first day, attendees connected with fellow devs and industry pros at our spook-tacular evening event with cocktails, halloween-themed bites, and music. the "day of the dev" themed night was complete with music, psychic readings, spooky art activities, and more. so, in the spirit of devs + drinks, cheers to day 2! check in tomorrow for our day 2 update and the spotlight session livestream, but in the meantime, follow along with #sdc19 on social media for all the latest updates.
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