Directory information

Before publishing your smart home Action, you need to provide information about your Action. This information shows up on your Google Assistant directory page.

It's important that you promote and highlight your Action's capabilities and provide everything users need to know about your Action. A good directory page includes the following details:

  • Description — A brief summary of what the Action can do and its features.
  • Icon and banner images — These images reflect your brand and differentiate your Action from other ones.

In the Actions Console, go to Deploy > Directory information to review and update your Assistant directory page.

Directory information can be specified for each language and locale your Action uses. To change to the directory information for another language, click the language at the top of the section and enter your translated information. Read localized publishing for more information.

Language selector for an Action's directory information

Descriptions

Short and full descriptions give users an idea of what your Action does:

  • The short description is a single line summary of your Action.
  • The full description gives additional details on what users can do with your Action. The full description must match the device types and traits the Action implements.

Images

In order to provide an excellent user experience, the icons for your Action within the Google Home app (GHA) and Assistant Explorer must adhere to the following guidelines.

You must submit the following images in the Actions Console. These images are used in your listing in Assistant Explorer.

Small logo (Company logo) requirements:

  • Round logo
  • 192 x 192 pixels
  • A transparent background, using PNG format
  • If your logo is white, a colored border must be added
  • Name the file in the following format:

    <PROJECT_ID>-appicon.png

Banner image requirements:

  • Large banner image should be 1920x1080.
  • A transparent background, using PNG format

You must submit an icon with your test results. This icon will be listed in the Home Control List within the GHA.

App logo (App icon) requirements:

  • Round logo
  • 144 x 144 pixels
  • A transparent background, using PNG format
  • If your logo is white, a colored border must be added
  • Name the file in the following format:

    <PROJECT_ID>-appicon.png

Contact details

Contact details is publicly available on your Action's GHA directory page and allows users to contact you directly about issues and feedback.

This section is used to set links to your publicly available privacy policy (required) and terms of service (optional) for your Action.

Additional information

This section includes:

  • Smart Home Business Partnership Requirements — Brand permissions information to allow Google to promote and highlight your brand.
  • Testing instructions — Additional information Google testers may need in order to approve your Action.