Skill Request and Response Reference for APL Interfaces

The APL interfaces provide directives and requests for sending APL documents to Alexa and receiving APL requests from events that take place on the device.

There are three APL interfaces you can use in your skill code.

Alexa.Presentation.APL

Directives and requests for working with devices with screens. Use this interface with APL documents. For example, you use the RenderDocument directive in this interface to send an APL document to Alexa to display on the user's device.

For details about all the directives and requests in this interface, see Alexa.Presentation.APL Interface Reference.

Alexa.Presentation.APLA

Directives and requests for APL for audio. Use this interface with APLA documents. For example, you use the RenderDocument directive in this interface to send an APLA document to Alexa to play an audio response.

For details about all the directives and requests in this interface, see Alexa.Presentation.APLA Interface Reference.

Alexa.Presentation.APLT

Directives and requests for APL for character displays. Use this interface with APLT documents. For example, you use the RenderDocument directive in this interface to send an APLT document to Alexa to display text on a character display.

For details about all the directives and requests in this interface, see Alexa.Presentation.APLT Interface Reference.

Last updated: Mar 30, 2022