Google Workspace Updates
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Improve Chat apps with display carousels and richer text formatting
Developers can now create more engaging Chat apps with several new features. A carousel widget allows for horizontally scrollable presentation of complex and organized information. This widget is ideal for displaying product listings, multiple data points, or options within a single card, enhancing user experience. Markdown support simplifies text formatting, especially for AI agents whose output is often in markdown. Instead of converting markdown to HTML, developers can now pass it directly to Chat for rendering. Additionally, the ability to add ordered, unordered, and nested lists, along with code blocks, enhances readability and comprehension. These list and code block features are crucial for displaying structured data and programming examples. The carousel widget makes information browsing efficient and engaging. Markdown support offers easier text formatting, while lists and code blocks enable richer text presentation. These features are available now to all Google Workspace customers with no administrative controls required.