Google Home APIs Developer Challenge 2025: Build Smart Home Experiences

Announcing the Google Home Developer Challenge

• 💡 The Google Home Developer Challenge 2025 has been launched, inviting developers to build unique smart home integrations using Google Home APIs.
• 🚀 These APIs enable seamless integration with Google Home devices and over 750 million devices accessible via the home APIs, going beyond standard home control.
• 🏆 Participants can win prizes such as $1,000 worth of Google hardware and an invitation to an exclusive Google demo event.

Challenge Stages: Learn, Develop, Submit

• 📚 Learn: A series of videos will guide developers on building mobile apps (Android/iOS), creating advanced automations, and offer tips and tricks for using the Home APIs.
• 🛠️ Develop: Build a new app on Android or iOS, or add a new feature to an existing app, leveraging the Home APIs.
• 📤 Submit: Provide your code via GitHub and a short demo video by the deadline.

Challenge Themes and Ideas

• 🏠 Connected Living: Integrate physical and digital lives, for example, by enhancing delivery experiences with smart home devices like flashing lights when a delivery person is near.
• 📊 Smart Home Insights: Develop solutions for managing, monitoring, or visualizing a smart home, such as a single dashboard for at-a-glance status and control of devices.
• 🤖 Intelligent Automation: Create apps and features that utilize smart and context-aware automations, like automatically adjusting window shades based on sunlight and phone sensor data.
• 👤 Personalized Home Assistant: Build assistants that learn user preferences and routines to personalize lighting, energy, comfort, and security, potentially using LLMs to discover automation possibilities.

Submission Details

• 🗓️ The deadline for submissions is July 31st, 2025.
• 📝 Submissions require code on GitHub and a short demo video.
• 📧 Register on the contest website to receive updates on new video publications and approaching deadlines.