I would like to know which are my posibilities as a developer to implements a send message voice action, in a messaging app (like a custom Telegram app), for spanish users. I want to implement the send new message action, I does not interested in replying to received messages (this is already implemented).
This is an example of I want to implements:
Create Message action
The user tells an utterance like "I would like to send a message with whatsapp".
A widget asks for a contact to send the message (if the user did not especificated one).
The app sends the message.
This is the same working example for spanish language: Create Message action (spanish)
I already know that there are built-in intents but the CREATE_MESSAGE built-in intent is only available for en-us locale. I also checked the custom intents but there are also only availables for en-us locale as I know. Which more options do I have?
PD: My final goal is to make the app compatible for Android Auto so I'm making it compatible with google assistant first.
Thanks in advance.
As you note, the actions.intent.CREATE_MESSAGE BII is only available in en-US right now. This is probably the best one, since it provides getting and sending a message without any additional work.
You may want to see if actions.intent.OPEN_APP_FEATURE will work for your needs. It has the downside that it does not have the fields available in CREATE_MESSAGE, but it might be a useful way to open the app.
However...
If you're planning on targeting Android Auto, that platform is even more restricted. If you're building an Android Auto app, you are limited to use only the actions.intent.GET_PARKING_FACILITY or actions.intent.GET_CHARGING_STATIONS BIIs. If you are willing to have it return a widget, you get a little more flexibility in what BIIs it accepts, but these don't let you send a message or open the app (even in en-US).
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I am working on a project to integrate the Google Assistant with an existing Android app. The requirements are simple. Assuming my app is named TestApp and I want it to just Create a meeting, I want to be able to say, "Hey Google, Create a meeting on TestApp".
The closest API I found that does what I need is the Voice Interactions. This is very similar to what I need done but it only allows preset voice triggers such as "call this person..." or "set alarm at...", but cannot do "create a task or something else..." like in my example. According to this link, custom voice actions aren't allowed.
So my question is, is it possible to directly interact with my app and have it do a very simple task?
Short Answer: No, not directly. But your Action can be made to prompt the user for permission to "deep-link" into an Android activity. To do that you need first to associate the Action and the Activity in the console. Sample code is here
https://actions-on-google.github.io/actions-on-google-nodejs/classes/conversation_helper.deeplink.html
Longer Answer: Before there were Actions on Google there were Google Now Actions. (Yeah I know it's confusing). With Google Now Actions the Google App on a phone can be made to launch an Android activity with an intent which carries search terms in the bundle of "string extras". Then your user would say something like
"OK, Google search for the meeting creator on TestApp". Then you would get the text "the meeting creator" as a query string extra in a specially crafted search intent which launches TestApp into its meeting-creating activity. Details are here:
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-now-actions-19436.html
Unlike Actions on Google, Google Now Actions forces your user to pose his request as a search.
My homemade Android email client app, using Java mail, works fine with google mail service.
One use case for which I would like some piece of advice does concern the 'unread messages':
Whenever I 'Mark as unread' an email in mail.google.com, my mobile app update the email as 'unread' accordingly. Good.
Now I am using inbox.google.com and the 'Mark as unread' option is not present anymore.
As explained on the How Inbox works with Gmail page from Google, some actions are identical and other are similar.
About 'Mark As Unread' feature, it is not present anymore in 'Inbox'.
Instead, a 'snooze' option is replacing it:
In GMail (mail.google.com): 'Mark as Unread'
In Inbox (inbox.google.com): 'Snooze' (NOT identical to 'Mark as unread', but has 'similar' behavior)
Question:
How can I figure out, in my android java code, that a message is 'snoozed'?
I googled for it and checked GMail's extensions but could not find an answer.
Note:
I also checked Imap messages userFlags and systemFlags: nothing there :/
Thanks.
It looks like a lot of Inbox's features are implemented as a special kind of label: one that you can search for, but not one that appears as an actual Label or any sort of metadata in the Gmail API (or IMAP).
Try this (if you're an Inbox-by-Gmail user): open the Gmail web client, and enter label:snoozed in the search box. It should find all your snoozed messages. Also works for label:pinned, label:done, label:trips and label:purchases (Inbox smart bundles), label:lowpriority, etc. (Also try creating a new label with any of those names: they're all "reserved for system use.")
Even though they don't appear in the Gmail labels.list API, you can use these special Inbox label searches with the q (query) parameter in threads.list and messages.list.
So to figure out if a message is snoozed from your code, see if its message id appears in messages.list called with q=label:snoozed.
I don't see any way to add or remove these special Inbox labels on a message through the API, unless/until Google exposes them like other labels. (FWIW, the special Gmail Categories do appear in the API, e.g., "Updates" is a system label with id CATEGORY_UPDATES. So maybe there's hope things like "snoozed" make it into the API, too, as those Inbox features find their way into Gmail.)
I'm having a problem with the lite version of messenger (android only)
This version of the application does not support bot messages with templates or buttons (including the get_started button)
In my case this is an example:
I could not find a parameter in the webhooks to provide the user's platform.
So I have to ask the user: do you use the lite version?
And then set a different flow.
But this means that I must also give the possibility to disable the lite mode when browsing from the web or from the non-lite application (to guarantee a better user experience)
Does Facebook Messenger Bot provide information about the channel where the message was originated ?
This information is not provided via webhook, currently. The closest you can get is detecting user agent in the webview.
A not ideal but doable option would be to have something like a 'Switch to Lite' button in the persistent menu
One way to identify where message event originates from is to use the payloads. You can specify a unique payload when setting up your bot and check what you receive to react on. get_started, persistent_menu, quick_replies have a payload field that you can set.
{
"get_started":{
"payload":"<GET_STARTED_PAYLOAD>"
}
}
I want to enable users to share a URL+ text with a WhatsApp group. I want this to work both from iPhones and Androids. However my app is in a browser (it's a website). I'm currently looking into 2 options, but both have issues:
1) The first potential solution - sharing directly from the browser.
I checked out WhatsApp's URL schema and used the following URL to share through my app:
"whatsapp://send?text=Hello%2C%20World!"
However there were several problems with this approach:
It seems to work only with iPhones and not with Androids. Is there a comparable solution somewhere for Androids?
It enables to choose who to send to only after you are redirected to WhatsApp, unless you know the address book ID (=abid) of the user. First, I do not know how to access the abid of users? Second, I am trying to send to a group, in which case there is no abid (right?), and therefore it seems impossible to do this. Is that true?
Also, what happens for Android apps? What is the comparable to the abid, for a group, and how do I get it?
2) The second potential solution - creating a native app which is identical with the browser-based app, but this specific part (where we do the "sharing") is native.
However, it seems to me that in this case I have very similar problems to the ones described above:
I can see how to do this for iOS on WhatsApp's website (see the link above). However, does the WhatsApp URL schema work with Android native apps as well?
Again, the address book ID issue is the same. How do I get it? It may be easier to get the abid on iOS given that we are now a native app, but does it exist for a group? And how about the Android app? Would this share to WhatsApp group work there?
Sharing directly from the browser works both in iPhone and Android if you use WhatsApp version 2.11 or higher. As you said it DIDN'T USED TO work in Android.
U can use the same URL
"whatsapp://send?text=Hello%2C%20World!"
Knowing abid is not possible as far as I know.
Hope this was helpful.
Thank You.
in Android you can invite friends from an app using Intent, see the following Code
final ComponentName name = new ComponentName("com.whatsapp", "com.whatsapp.ContactPicker");
Intent oShareIntent = new Intent();
oShareIntent.setComponent(name);
oShareIntent.setType("text/plain");
oShareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Your Message");
startActivity(oShareIntent);
I hope this solves your problem
I have two questions regarding the sl4a scripting language. I'd like to develop a python script that will be periodically contacted by a server and post some information to the notification bar.
I've successfully add message to the notification bar, but
The notification icon is always sl4a logo. Is there a way to change it to something else? (I don't mind to use some hack method such as rename the resource file, if that will work...)
When I click the notification, it just remove the message. I'd like to add some intent that would take the user to certain app or webpage. Is it possible?
Thanks!
Officially, there is no API exposed to SL4A for customization of notifications which exist does exist in Android.
Reference:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html#CustomExpandedView
http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/wiki/ApiReference
Officially, there is no API exposed to SL4a for firing an intent on user click from user. .
notify(
String title: title,
String message)
Notify, just displays a notification that will be canceled when the user clicks on it. Now, somehow if you can trace cancellation of this notification, you can start a new intent using your script.
Hack?
Please note, Android treats these notification from SL4A and not from your script. (due to which you are getting the SL4A icon) Thus, somehow it is possible to use all API which are exposed to a normal JAVA code, treating SL4A as an application but then this approach will make all your apps using SL4a have the same logo. ;)