Missed our weekly video? Don’t worry, watch this week of #AoGProTips 🎥 One of my favorite moments when building a conversational Action for the Google Assistant is discovering unexpected user input. Like any daily conversation, the path of Assistant dialogs can be unpredictable. They are often based on each…

Have you built an Action for the Google Assistant and wondered how many people are using it? Or how many of your users are returning users? …

In the previous post, we learned about how to enable Firestore in the Firebase console and integrate this with Actions on Google in order to store data scalably for multiple Google Assistant users across multiple devices. In this post, we will dive deeper into the Cloud Firestore by using different…

Do you need to share data between your Actions for the Google Assistant and your mobile and web apps? Are you looking to avoid hardcoding the content of your Action so you can make changes without redeploying your code? In this blog post, we will show you how to use…

Why I wrote this blog post? Before I dive into what is Firebase, let me share what life was like before Firebase became the recommended platform for building Google Assistant apps. I built my first app before Google IO 2017 and initially the experience was daunting because of all the complexity in navigating the UI. …

Dynamite brings the explosive power of DynamoDB in an easy to use library so you can focus on building your Alexa Skill — After trying out the AWS SDK for my last Alexa skill, I decided to use a third-party library called Dynamite. Dynamite is a promise-based client and it allows you to query for specific attributes easily with very little code. Lets examine how Dynamite can simplify CRUD operations.

My experience with the new Alexa SDK for NodeJS — The new Alexa SDK for NodeJS helps developers build skills faster, and with less complications. In the past, I’ve built skills using the old SDK, and recently started to transition over to this new version. In this post, I’ll share my experience on data persistence using DynamoDB in the new…