Category: video
Video: Local Debugging for your Alexa Skill
The Alexa team recently announced that they will be publishing more tutorials for developing skills. As most of us advanced Skill Builders have learned, there is a dearth of tutorials on the Internet once you get past the initial beginner tutorials. One such topic that has cost me quite a lot of time finding information … Continue reading “Video: Local Debugging for your Alexa Skill”
Alexa-Hosted Skills and the ASK CLI
Dabble Lab has published another great tutorial video showing how to use the ASK CLI with Alexa-hosted skills. You will learn how to create a skill from your local machine and deploy it to the remote Git repository that Alexa provides for its users. You will also learn how to deal with merge conflicts with … Continue reading “Alexa-Hosted Skills and the ASK CLI”
Retrieving user information in an Alexa Skill
Dabble Lab has created another great tutorial video for enhancing your Alexa Skills with personalized user information. If you have ever wondered how to get a user’s email address, here’s how you do it. In this video, Steve Tingiris shows the nitty gritty details of getting a user data. By requesting permissions for data in … Continue reading “Retrieving user information in an Alexa Skill”
User Address in Alexa Skill Video Tutorial
Have you ever wondered how to obtain the registered address of the device your user has your skill enabled on? Dabble Lab has recently published a video that will answer questions on how to get started building and testing skills that need a user’s address. If you follow along with their tutorial and template, you … Continue reading “User Address in Alexa Skill Video Tutorial”
Beginner Alexa Skill Tutorial Video
Youtuber blondiebytes published a great video that takes users step-by-step through the whole process of creating a fact Alexa skill. Her beginner Alexa Skill tutorial in this video is full of great insider tips. This video is a great starting point if you have no experience with the Alexa Developer Console. You can easily take … Continue reading “Beginner Alexa Skill Tutorial Video”
How to promote and market Alexa Skills
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time and effort developing your Alexa skills so that they’re ready for production. However, once a skill is published, the work is not done! Getting your hard work enabled on an end-user’s device takes more than great development: you have to learn to market your Alexa … Continue reading “How to promote and market Alexa Skills”