Today, during Samsung’s Developer Conference, Samsung is clearly still fighting to increase the popularity of Bixby in the voice assistant market. So far, Bixby hasn’t been a favorite for a lot of people (and all for the right reasons). From its slow response time to often returning the wrong results and not to mention the existence of the “Bixby button” in new phones, people often complained a lot on social media.
Samsung is still fighting, however, trying to motivate people to give Bixby a second chance. Today, they announced that they are opening up Bixby to developers.
Samsung is treating “developers as first-class citizens” with the introduction of Bixby Developer Studio, their attempt at introducing an IDE dedicated to the development of Bixby for third-party developers. It’s available on macOS and Windows starting today.
Samsung is trying to make it easier for developers to dive into the SDK. You can basically create a new “capsule” and after defining your models and views, Samsung introduced their own vision of “training” Bixby. Instead of programming a lot of use cases and examples, you as a developer enter a sample sentence identifying the keywords and what they mean and Bixby will generate the code necessary.
During their demo onstage, Samsung created a reservation system for a trip on Jupiter, quickly navigating through the different windows until the reservation is finished.
While it certainly looks convincing, developer support will be key, so we’ll have to wait and see how successful this ends up.
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