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I got this crazy idea a while ago that it would be super cool to have a custom Google Action that I could load onto my Google home device. My idea is to be able to ask it for the latest dev tip, and it will prompt back the latest article I've written...
Yesterday we created our very first Google action by using the visual builder. Today we'll recreate the same thing but use the cloud function variant. This way, we are ready to build our kind of manipulations and data fetching later. Alright, let's g...
Now that we have our action triggered programmatically let's see how we can get the response data from an API. This way, we can make it a bit more interactive. If you'd like to follow along, please complete the previous article first. Fetching API da...
In the previous article, we looked at fetching data from an API for our Google action. However, in my case, I don't have an API at my disposal. I have an RSS feed, so let's see how we can use that to fetch the latest article, which we can return. If ...
Now that we are able to fetch data from an RSS feed and show it in the Google Action, how about we add a button to learn more. A thing to note is that depending on the device, the button might not be rendered. For instance smart home devices won't sh...
Now that we have our Google Action fully functional, we can look at deploying it so that it will become active for everyone. I've never done this before, so bear with me, as Google might come back and reject the action for some reason. Deploying the ...
