Alexa Skills Kit > Get Deeper > System Function APIs
Event Notifications
Send notifications about weather, sports, content, and more to customers who have granted permissions.
Reminders
Enable customers to set and manage reminders to help them remember important tasks or events.
Timers
Use the Alexa Timers API so that your skill can create and manage timers for your users.
Lists
Allow customers to manage shopping and to-do lists from within your Alexa skill.
Skill Connections
Skill connections enable a skill to use another skill to perform a specific task, so you can do more for your customers by extending your skill's abilities with minimal changes. Examples of skill connections include printing, ordering a taxi, or making a dinner reservation.
| Date | Name | Summary | Locale | Links | Release |
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7/22/2020 |
Skill Resumption |
Allow customers to easily return to your skill after using Alexa accomplish another task |
US |
Preview |
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7/22/2020 |
Custom Tasks |
Custom tasks (beta) let you expose skill functions outside your skill |
All |
Beta |
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3/16/2020 |
Timers API
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Add timers capabilities to your skills with the Timers API | All |
Generally Available |
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12/11/2019 |
Custom Tasks (preview) and Direct Skill Connecitons |
Create custom connected skill experiences with tasks (preview) and direct skill connections |
All |
Preview |
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11/8/2019 |
Voice Permissions for Reminders |
Customers can now use voice to give your skills permission for reminders |
All |
Generally Available |
