Incorporate Input from Alexa-Enabled Devices with a Screen to an Alexa Conversations Skill

As with other Alexa skills, you can create visual experiences to accompany your Alexa Conversations skill by using Alexa Presentation Language (APL). You implement APL interfaces in Alexa Conversations skills by following the same high-level flow as for custom skills. For details, see High-level steps to implement APL in your skill.

However, to incorporate an APL touch event into an Alexa Conversations experience, you must send a Dialog.DelegateRequest directive from the handler function that receives it.

Incorporating an APL touch event

To pass the input from an APL touch event to Alexa Conversations, you send a Dialog.DelegateRequest directive from your handler function.

You populate the name field with the name of the utterance set, and you populate the slots array with the relevant variable values.

Example

The following example passes the input from an APL touch event to Alexa Conversations.

{
  "type": "Dialog.DelegateRequest",
  "target": "AMAZON.Conversations",
  "period": {
    "until": "EXPLICIT_RETURN"
  },
  "updatedRequest": {
    "type": "Dialog.InputRequest",
    "input": {
      "name": "FoodAndColorUtteranceSet",
      "slots": {
        "food": {
          "name": "food",
          "value": "sandwich"
        },
        "color": {
          "name": "color",
          "value": "blue"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
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Last updated: Nov 27, 2023