Android App and Amazon Alexa Speaker

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NewUser-63185eb5-e7c3-47dd-bc7b-2c5d3737f116 asked · Jul 15, 2018 at 07:25 PM

Android App and Amazon Alexa Speaker

I want to create an android app that sends reminders to be outputted on the Amazon Alexa speaker and uses Amazon Web Services. Firstly, is this possible? Secondly, I know that I can create skills for these reminders, but then how can I invoke the skill with information just sent from my app at a specific time? I don't want to invoke the skill through voice from the speaker, but rather at a certain inputted by the user from the app. I'm not sure how I would do this. Any guidance would be appreciated.

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Answer 1 · 2018-07-16T15:41:27Z

Steve answered · Jul 16, 2018 at 03:41 PM

Your speaker will need to implement Alexa, per the requirements here:
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/alexa-voice-service/alerts-overview.html

Even though your app is for reminders, the general idea seems to be controlling a device through your app and managing its state (reminders etc). Take a look at the smart home API and think of your app in terms of a companion app and slave device.

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/smarthome/understand-the-smart-home-skill-api.html

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