Amazon Echo Development Basics

Explore how intent handlers power Alexa skill functionality, including hello world and help intents. Test on iPhone or Android, review history, and discover what you can ask.

Select the two files in source that relate to a skill and index, then right-click to compress them into a zip file, and on Windows use a zip program.

Learn to upload code to AWS Lambda for an Alexa skill by creating a Lambda function, uploading a zip file, and configuring a basic execution role.

Test your function using templates to run and verify execution, comparing Amazon Alexa tests with a simple hello world before submitting to confirm success.

Test the Alexa's skills kit by saying hello, asking for help, and running a hello world example to learn the basics of Amazon Echo development.

Build a history buff Alexa skill that uses a day slot to fetch events from Wikipedia, wiring intents, slots, and a get first event flow with sample utterances.

Test the history buff skill by querying dates to pull events like october 30th and historic milestones such as sweden's palestine recognition and world war two rebuilding.