June, 2024



Google I/O’24 Workspace Platform Recap

At Google I/O we announced new, powerful ways to get more done in your personal and professional life with Gemini for Google Workspace. Gemini in the side panel of your favorite Workspace apps is rolling out more broadly and will use the 1.5 Pro model for answering a wider array of questions and providing more insightful responses. We’re also bringing more Gemini capabilities to your Gmail app on mobile, helping you accomplish more on the go. We showcased how Gemini will become the connective tissue across multiple applications with AI-powered workflows. Lastly, we dove into streamlining AI-powered application creation using AppSheet, Google’s no-code platform, and Google Cloud AI's capabilities.


Check out the following Google Workspace sessions to get all the details:


Google Workspace APIs and SDKs: Build AI-powered apps and add-ons

Build AI-powered workflows and integrated apps with Google Workspace, reaching users in the flow of work.


No code apps with AppSheet and Google Cloud AI

AI superpowers your apps and can help you build faster, analyze deeper, work smarter.


Apps Script and Gemini: Build AI-powered Google Workspace solutions

Discover how accessible and adaptable building generative AI solutions for Google Workspace can be using Apps Script.


Building interactive experiences with Google Meet

Get the latest features in our APIs, and learn all the ways you can integrate workflows with Meet’s platform.


Automate your Google Workspace tasks with Gemini

Learn to harness the power of Gemini to automate Google Workspace tasks and explore new possibilities.


Chat like you mean it: Build apps for Google Chat with Gemini

Build powerful collab apps for Google Workspace with Chat

Explore and create your own, and even integrate AI.

Developer News

New: Advanced Google Workspace events service

The Advanced Google Workspace Events service lets you use the Google Workspace Events API in Apps Script. This API lets you subscribe to Google Workspace resources so that you receive relevant events that you're interested in. Events represent changes to resources, such as when resources are created, updated, or deleted.



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Workspace Developer News on YouTube

In the latest episode of the Google Workspace Developer News on YouTube we cover the new features you can use when creating Google Chat apps, how you can manage read states through the Chat API, and more.



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Tutorial: Answer questions based on Chat conversations with a Gemini AI Chat app

This tutorial shows how to make a Google Chat app that answers questions based on conversations in Chat spaces with generative AI powered by Vertex AI with Gemini. The Chat app uses the Google Workspace Events API plus Pub/Sub to recognize and answer questions posted in Chat spaces in real time, even when it isn't mentioned.


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Create a Google Chat app with Vertex AI and Apps Script

In this video you will learn how you can create a Google Chat app with Vertex AI and Apps Script that responds to incidents. The how-to video provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up and deploy the app, including creating a Google Cloud project, enabling APIs, and connecting the app to Google Workspace.



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Community Spotlight


Google Forms automation with AppSheet

by Stephane Giron

Google recently introduced a new data source for Google AppSheet, Google Forms. Integrating Forms with AppSheet is a valuable addition, as it simplifies the process of creating form automations. In addition, using Forms as a data source for AppSheet you will benefit from all the automation capabilities of AppSheet.



Gemini API with JSON schema

by Kanshi Tanaike

In this post, you’ll learn to create sample scripts in Python and Node.js for controlling the output format of the Gemini API using JSON schemas.




Smart replacing images in Google Slides with multimodal Vertex AI, Gemini Pro Vision and Google Apps Script

by Ivan Kutil

Automating the replacement of text in Google Slides is easy using the replace function. For images, it's still somewhat bearable with one presentation, but what do you do when you have thousands of Google Slides files on your Google Drive? In this post we look into how to programmatically update images and creatives in Slides using Apps Script and Gemini APIs.




TU5.9 - What's new in the AppSheet world?

AI is changing everything and AppSheet is no exception! In this episode of Totally Unscripted, they will welcome Engineering Lead Mike Procopio from the Google AppSheet team to hear how AI is driving innovation, enabling assisted app development, automated insights, smart workflows, and more! So whether you are no-code, low-code or “what’s code?”, watch to find out what the future holds for AppSheet for building powerful, intelligent apps with Google Workspace.





Solutions Spotlight


Apps Script & Gemini: Demos now on GitHub

Get the Apps Script code samples featured at Google Cloud Next and I/O to build your own custom AI-powered solutions for Google Workspace!





Integrating AppSheet with Google Workspace

Did you know that AppSheet can integrate with Google Workspace? In this video, we speak to how AppSheet - Google Cloud’s no-code application platform - helps citizen developers streamline their workflows, and demo how you can create your own app in Google Sheets. Watch to explore the possibilities of AppSheet!