Google Assistant development with Actions on Google

Explore how DialogFlow connects to actions on Google, define an agent with intents and entities, and build a fulfillment app to respond to user queries via the assistant.

Explore how Actions on Google creates the default fallback and default welcome intents automatically, how these intents trigger when input isn’t matched, and how to customize responses and contexts.

This lecture guides you to build a FAQ action in Google Assistant using Actions on Google by creating intents, adding training phrases, and crafting responses, then testing in the simulator.

Enable webhook fulfillment in Google Assistant using the inline editor, and deploy with Firebase functions and DialogFlow-fulfillment to map intents like Welcome and Fallback and send rich media cards.

Set up the Firebase Realtime Database, generate and use a private key, enable locked mode security, and configure the firebase-admin SDK in Node.js to securely store musicians' votes.

Save votes to a realtime database in Firebase by creating a custom singer entity. Update artist vote counts with a one-time read and deploy the function to handle user input.

Learn to use a webhook for slot feeling, store session data with the Actions on Google library, and redirect users after multiple fallbacks during a DialogFlow conversation.

Read artist vote data from Firebase, order by votes, and present each artist's name with its vote count, using async/await to return the results to Dialogflow.

Integrate your web services with Google Action by exposing internal or third-party APIs to Google Action, illustrated with a public meetups API to show upcoming events.

Learn how web services enable machine-to-machine communication through APIs, comparing SOAP and RESTful approaches, with HTTP, XML/JSON data, and key security methods like API keys and OAuth.

Learn to obtain a meetup.com API key, call the events endpoint, and display upcoming meetups by configuring parameters, location coordinates, and a config-driven Node.js app.

Learn to call an API with request-promise, handle responses, and save meetup data into the Actions on Google conv data for stateful conversation in Google Assistant.

Learn to display a meetup in a basic card on Google Assistant devices, fetch meetups asynchronously, and enable next, previous, and list all meetups in a single flow.

Design conversations across devices by defining surface capabilities in Actions on Google, enabling or restricting audio and screen output, and crafting multi-surface conversations or response-branching experiences.

Test our app on devices and add test users to enable testing for Google Assistant development with Actions on Google, bringing you closer to completion.

Test on Google Home by using voice commands like 'talk to Jane from Udemy' and 'show all meetups,' then add test users to uncover problems that real users may reveal.