The G Suite team recently launched () Hangouts Chat, the next-generation intelligent messaging platform for enterprise collaboration on web & mobile. In addition, Chat comes with a bot framework & API (). Developers can now create bot integrations to automate tasks, query for information, or give users another way to access their apps, simply with chat messages. Learn how to get started writing chat bots today in this episode of the G Suite Dev Show hosted by Google engineer Wesley Chun. Get an overview of what Chat bots are, how to build them & dive into a sample bot written in Python and JavaScript. No longer are chat rooms just for conversations… feature-rich, intelligent bots can really transform the way you work!
This video is also subtitled in Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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