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title: "Native App Integration"
sidebar_label: "Introduction"
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This guide describes how to build a native Home Assistant app that communicates with Home Assistant and offers a seamless integration. Below is a list of the things that we will discuss in this guide.

- Allow the user to establish a connection and authenticate with their own Home Assistant instance.
- Send location and device info back to Home Assistant.
- Call services, fire events and render templates.
- A view to control the house via an authenticated webview.