For developers who want to easily integrate SMS and voice into their apps, pay attention, as Google has joined hands with Twilio to make this task simpler than ever. Google has created new Python and Java libraries allow for integration with Twilio’s cloud-based communications platform.

“We’ve been working with our friends over at Twilio to make it easier to do so. Today we’re announcing native Python and Java libraries for working with Twilio APIs onto Google Cloud Platform,” said Google on its App Engine blog, where it also showed how developers can add a few lines of code to send a text message from App Engine using Python.

This allows developers to easily integrate SMS or voice communications in applications running on the company’s App Engine platform.

“Five years ago, if you told your IT department you needed to build and scale a communications app in a week, they’d laugh – maybe even quit. Today, we have cloud-powered tools that allow developers and entrepreneurs to do this in a matter of days, building real-world businesses at scale with Google Cloud Platform.,” Twilio said in its blog post.

Twilio’s platform has three components: Voice, SMS and Client.
While Voice and SMS allow applications to make regular phone calls and send & receive text messages, Client enables VoIP calls from any phone, tablet or browser, and supports WebRTC, a technology that will make it possible for developers to add voice and video communications in their Web-based applications.

Developers who want to utilize this feature need to sign up for App Engine and get a Twilio account. New users signing up can grab 2,000 free voice minutes or SMS messages!