Actions on Google- DSC
Developer Student Club at Chandigarh Group of Colleges presented a workshop on Actions of Google. The whole purpose of the student-driven club is to make people aware of the advancements and to create an ample number of opportunities for the curious students. The workshop organised on 1st October 2019. The main of the event organised was to move students towards a practical approach rather than attending boring theoretical lectures. Right from the announcements, we felt the enthusiasm to attend the workshop from all branches.
The workshop started with the basic introduction on defining what actions on Google exactly mean. It is all about extending your mobile apps, connecting your smart home devices, creating conversational experiences from scratch. By starting from the very scratch, students were made aware of how to provide a faster way for users to access your Android app. Deep-link users directly into a specific activity using App Actions or surface relevant content on the Assistant with Slices. Not only these Actions on Google can do wonders like users can control lights, doors, coffee machines, and many other devices around the home. For content creators, an ample number of templates are there to create action without building any code.
Since this is a student-driven club, so members of DSC are there for curious students who came to attend the workshop. Our coordinate Mrityunjay started the session with scratch and asked brainstorming questions with the audience which everyone enjoyed answering.
After the introduction and brainstorming session by Mrityunjay, our coordinator Prince started the practical session of building own assistant which gave step by step instruction of what to do. It involves how to take action on google, action on google website and action console. It includes dialogflow sign-in followed by create button, create intent. Your intents can include a welcome screen and then numbering your intents.
Every single action on google requires an action project and a dialogflow agent. An action agent is where you’ll manage, test and publish your Action, and perform admin tasks like guiding your Action through the publication process. A dialogflow agent is a web-based service you’ll use to integrate your Action with the Google Assistant. You’ll use this agent to define how users interact with your Action, the parameters Dialogflow should extract, and how the conversation should progress. To create these components you just need to head over Actions on Google Developer Console and log in your google account. When prompted, select add/import project. Give your project name and then click on create project. On the left hand menu of console, select actions. Then select your first action.Choose the languages in which your action directory listing should be displayed. Click update.Select custom intent followed by Build. Now dialogflow console will launch a new tab. Click create for creating your dialogflow agent.
Not only the speakers but the response of the audience was worth watching. The zeal of the audience made the event more interactive and informative. Over and all it was an enthusiasm packed session with crowd.
To make the session more interesting, we include a kahoot quiz game in our event which every student enjoyed. This quiz had basic questions related to what they learnt in the workshop and some random questions as well. The winners were presented with exciting goodies.
To keep up the pace, Dr Anuj Gupta, Head of Department and faculty coordinator Mr Manpreet Singh Bajwa motivated students to keep participate in such events and message of working hard and never stop grabbing knowledge. The event ended on a successful note with a smile on every curious face.
