Make Your Actions More Powerful

We do have many codelabs and blog posts to know how to build our own Action on Google. But what will happen once you have your action on store? How to make it more efficient so that people will like it and more number of people will use it?

In this talk I have shared few tips to make your actions more powerful.

Things you will learn from this talk:
- Basics of Actions on Google.
- Different Response types.
- Languages provided in google assistant applications.
- Interactive canvas
- Few tips to make your actions more better.

Transcript

1. Make Your Actions More Powerful CLOUD AND ML Ravi Rupareliya @ravi_rupareliya
2. Anyone tried building skills?
3. Your Local Heroes
4. Google Assistant Vs Actions on Google Google Assistant:- Google Assistant is a platform/application where actions of a user will be performed. Actions on Google:- Actions allow users to send a command to Google Assistant to complete things.
6. Devices Smart Displays - Nest Hub - JBL Link View - Lenovo - LG XBOOM Speakers - Google Home - Google Mini - Wearables - Phones - Android TV - Pixel Slate
7. Tools
8. Tools • Dialogflow • Firebase Cloud Functions • Inline Functions • Webhooks (node, java)
9. Response Types
10. Responses types • Simple response • Basic card • Browsing carousel • Suggestion chips • Media responses • Table cards • List
11. Simple response • Chat bubble content • Supported on surface with AUDIO_OUTPUT and SCREEN_OUTPUT capabilities • 640 character limit per chat bubble
12. Basic card • Supported on surface with SCREEN_OUTPUT • Includes Image, Title, Sub-title, Text-body, Link button • 10 line limit with an image, 15 line limit without an image
13. Browsing carousel • Selected tile will be opened in web browser • Supported on surface with SCREEN_OUTPUT • Minimum 2 and maximum 10 tiles • Each tile must link to web content
14. Suggestion chips • Provides hint to continue conversation • Maximum 8 chips • Maximum text length of 20 characters • Supports only plain text.
15. Media Responses • Play audio content with a playback duration longer than the 120-second • Replay the last 10 seconds. • Skip forward for 30 seconds. • Ok Google, (play, pause, stop, start over) • Https url with valid mp3 file.
16. Table Cards • Allows to display tabular data in response. • Sports result, Monthly/yearly report etc. • Minimum 1 column and 1 row.
17. List • Displays vertical list of multiple items. • Contain a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 30 list items. • KBC
18. Now what?
19. Tips for making powerful Actions
20. Languages • Hindi • Turkish • Thai • English • Indonesian • Portuguese • Chinese • Italian • Russian • Danish • Japanese • Spanish • Dutch • Korean • Swedish • French • Norwegian • German • Polish
21. Never leave your user in idle state ✔
22. • Make more meaningful conversation. • It will increase your conversation rate in analytics • Use suggestions like List or Suggestion chips. • It will help user to understand your action in much better way Conversation
23. • Make sure you have different responses so that user will not get bored. Example: Hi, How Are You? Holla, How may I assist you? Welcome, How was your day? Use different responses
24. Take advantage of analytics Take Advantage Of Analytics
25. DialogFlow History
26. Use Interactive Canvas for games
28. • Make it more interactive by using images when it is needed. • Saving user data • Location permission • Efficient use of push notifications Few Additional Tips
29. Useful Resources • https://developers.google.com/actions/ • https://dialogflow.com/ • https://developers.google.com/actions/codelabs/ • https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/ • https://twitter.com/actionsongoogle
30. Hiring Ninja Developers Simform Solutions https://www.simform.com/careers/ ravi.r@simformsolutions.com
31. Thank you! Ravi Rupareliya Sr. Software Engineer, Simform Solutions @ravi_rupareliya