Quick Start with App Development

To achieve differentiated advantages that are complementary to the all-in-one app, you can customize a desired app with the Tuya OEM app, or develop a custom app based on Tuya Smart App SDK. In addition, you can build app panels on Tuya’s UI Studio or customize app panels with Tuya’s panel SDKs.

App development

Build an OEM app

No coding skills are required. The system walks you through building app packages on the Tuya Developer Platform. The following visualized steps are performed:
1. Customize UI elements, such as the app name, app icon, and theme color.
2. Set functions supported by the app.
3. Configure required information, such as user agreements, privacy policies, digital map services, and push notification certificates.
4. Build the app package.
5. After the app package passes the acceptance test, you can launch the app in app stores. For more information, see OEM App.

Develop with the Smart App SDK

In specific IoT scenarios, you might need to customize apps rather than use OEM apps. You might also need to connect existing apps to Powered by Tuya (PBT) devices. Tuya Smart App SDK can quickly turn your IoT visions into realities respecting the connection and control of smart devices and the application of smart scenes.

Tuya Smart App SDK is currently classified into multiple categories: Industry App SDK, Tuya Smart App SDK, and Commercial Lighting App SDK.

Customize an app

If you require customized app development, you can contact Tuya’s account manager to evaluate the requirements and get started with the development. We recommend that you dive deeper into the process of customized app development and the cooperative details with Tuya to ensure efficient development. For more information, see Customized App.

Panel development

Each panel is a program that runs on the all-in-one app, an OEM app, or an app developed based on Tuya Smart App SDK. It is a graphical user interface (GUI) application that controls PBT devices.
You can develop panels on Tuya’s UI Studio or by using Tuya’s panel SDKs.

• UI Studio: Drag and drop required visualized functional components to create branded control panels on your terms and without coding.
• Panel SDK: Develop custom styles and functions in the panel container based on the React Native (RN) framework to meet different business requirements. Thus, you can implement the process to manage smart devices, scheduled tasks, and smart scenes.

Use the UI Studio

When you customize a panel on the UI Studio, you can change the styles, colors, icons, texts, sequences, and more UI elements as you like. For more information, see Configuration Guide for Studio.

Develop with the panel SDKs

1. Set up a development environment.
2. After you preview a panel, you can select a panel development template.
3. Create a product on the Tuya Developer Platform.
4. Initialize the project.
5. Develop and debug the panel.
6. Create UI packages of the project files and upload them to the Tuya Developer Platform to release your own device panel.