Hi,
it’s exciting time for all of us to be alive.
I’m proud to announce, that we’ve made a big step forward in bringing full Google Assistant experience to the Web.
The problem
According to Google, there are over 1 million actions built for the Google Assistant.
Some of these Actions might worth to be run on even more platforms. Many of them are helpful and provide a real value for their customers.
Till today, there was no way to run Actions on Google for anything other than a Google Assistant enabled device.
This introduced many obstacles a user has to overcome first:
- The user had to have a Google Assistant enabled device
- The user had to run the latest OS and Google Assistant
- The user should have figured out how to activate and use Google Assistant
- The user needed to find where the applications are and how to trigger them
- The user needed constant internet connectivity
As well as some problems a developer could have experienced
- Bad portability of the code (can only run on a single Platform)
- Not enough reasons to build an Action
- Customer base is limited by the number of Google Assistant users
- The action might be private and the access should be limited
How we solved it
The most logical way to solve the issue is to somehow port these Actions on more Platforms (with the favourite being Web).
I’m happy to let you know, that my project Dialogflow for Web gained first-class-citizen support for Google Assistant and it might help you as well!
From a user perspective
Dialogflow for Web provides the same UI/UX built upon the official Google Assistant spec.
The components are displayed the same way they are on Assistant and the interactions are kept familiar as well. Try out a demo
From a developer perspective
- It isn’t going to cost you anything, installation is <2 minutes
- The project is open-source
- No changes to your Action’s code required, works out-of-the-box
- Native platform features supported: multiple languages, text-to-speech, media responses
- No need to worry about the UI/UX/Accessibility
- Take advantage of Web, boost your customer base by 3.2 billion users
How you could help
- If you are a developer: port your action, submit issue, submit pr
- if you are a user: ask a developer to port his action and send him a link to this article
- if you are nice: consider to donate
Thank you!!!
