Your Alexa Consoles

Quick Reference: Add Echo Buttons to an Alexa Skill

The following resources help you create skills for Echo Buttons.

Concepts and procedures

Understand Echo Button Skills – The technical documentation for creating Echo Button skills, such as Echo Button programming concepts, troubleshooting, best practices, testing, and certification.
Steps to Build an Echo Button Skill – The steps to build a skill that can light up and receive input from Echo Buttons.
Create a Skill and Choose the Interaction Model – An overview of how to create a skill using the developer console, and a list of links to the remaining steps that you need to take to configure and build your skill.

Game Engine API Reference – The API documentation for the Game Engine interface, which enables your skill to receive input from Echo Buttons.
Gadget Controller API Reference – The API documentation for the Gadget Controller interface, which enables your skill to control Echo Buttons.

Echo Buttons Trivia Game Template – A starting point for you to build your own trivia skill that uses Echo Buttons.
Color Changer – A sample skill that includes roll call, starting and stopping the Input Handler, and defining animations for different button events.
Hello Buttons – A simple example of how to use the gadget interfaces; this is not intended to be a comprehensive sample.

Build Games for Echo Buttons with the New Trivia Template – A discussion of how to build trivia games with the Echo Button trivia template code.
Echo Buttons Skill Teardown: Don't Cut That Wire – An overview of the Don't Cut That Wire walkthrough, which provides JSON examples that detail best practices around these roll call, light animations, and so on.
Tips for Building Echo Button Skills with the Echo Buttons Skill API (Beta) – Some best practices for building interactive games for Echo Buttons.

C+C Hacking Factory: Bop it Buttons, Episode 1 – The process of writing a script for a dialog model for Bop it Buttons, a game that uses Echo Buttons.
C+C Hacking Factory: Bop it Buttons: Episode 2 – The conversion of a script to intents, utterances, and slots.
C+C Hacking Factory: Bop it Buttons: Episode 4 – A discussion of badges, persistent attributes, and Dynamo DB.
C+C Hacking Factory: Bop it Buttons: Episode 5 – An example of programming with the Echo Buttons Skill API.
C+C Hacking Factory: Bop it Buttons: Episode 7 – The button gameplay.
C+C Hacking Factory: Bop it Buttons: Episode 8 – The final showdown.
C+C Hacking Factory: Highlight: Gadgets Skill API vs. Game Engine – The differences between the two gadget interfaces.