This is a basic skill designed to tell understand the device it is being used on and display content appropirately. If being used on a normal echo, dot, whatever without a screen, it sends back usual responses. If used on an echo show (ie. a screen with a device), it creates a response using a body template, responses specific for devices with screens.
Display Interface Documentation: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/display-interface-reference
Video Tutorial Here: https://youtu.be/nqyeuga2KF8
- Create a new skill in the Amazon Developer Portal; call it Fruit Platter and make the invocation name 'fruit platter'
- Select 'Custom Interaction Model'
- Enable 'Render Template' under Global Fields
- Create a new lambda function in your AWS account, and copy the ARN under configuration in the Amazon Dev Portal
- Copy intentschema.js contents into interaction model
- Create custom slot type using customslottypes.js
- Copy sample utterances from sampleutterances.js
- Replace fact example code in lambda function with contents of index.js
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- Profit