I am currently trying to develop an alexa widget for visual echo devices which is supposed to display data from a DataStore. I could bind the DataStore data to the widget i n the APL code and install it on my echo show. I can also send updated data using the "Update data store" button in the widg...

I’m trying to create an APL document (for an Alexa widget) that contains a background image, several text components, and a footer action button.  I would like for the user to be able to touch anywhere on the widget (outside of the footer action button) to open the corresponding Alexa skill.  I a...

When developing on the Alexa, using: var audioUrl = Util.getS3PreSignedUrl("Media/001.mp3").replace(/&/g,'&');` I can play an mp3 audio clip using an SSML tag and yet keep the mp3 private, by storing it in an Alexa-hosted S3 bucket (and locking down the permissions to it): output1+=audio001[...

I'm if it's a dumby question I'm new developing Alexa skill and using APL. I'm trying to create a game in Python, when the skill starts it's generate a list of colors. Somebody know if it's possible to change the background color from Alexa dynamically showing every color that generated? Or even ...

We have implemented APL in our skill which is a static list of item. While APL was showing in echo show device is automatically redirected to home page of echo show while alexa was speaking. Skill works fine. when we try to speak again the APL comes back to the screen. Its was not happening every...

I'm writing an Alexa app and setting up multi-modal responses using the 'RenderDocumentDirective' in the python SDK. For info I'm using an AWS hosted skill in a lambda function. I'm using RddAPL to add the APL and RddAPLA to add the APLA. The APLA works fine. The APL has stopped working and I don...

Can anyone tell me how to use onEnd command for video players to know the video has ended and how to integrate it with Jovo.

Got Actual: Text1 --> Text2 --> Text3 Expected: (wanted it to repeat) Text1 --> Text2 --> Text3 --> Text1 --> Text2 --> Text3 --> Text1 --> ... Apl Code: https://apl.ninja/document/Borghild/why-sequencer-not-repeating-6sts { "type": "APL", "version": "1.8", "settings": {}, "theme": "dark"...

After Alexa's recent switch from the older Display interface to the new APL language, I’m no longer able to use the Google-Spreadsheet library to connect to spreadsheets. What do I have to do to be able to use Google-Spreadsheet again? Thanks for your help and sorry for my incorrect English

I am creating Alexa echo show skill, I have created one sample Alexa skill without lambda function that hits myserver api and I return response in Alexa accepted format like below: { "version": "1.0", "sessionAttributes": {}, "response": { "outputSpeech": { "type": "PlainText", ...

I'm trying to apply a simple radial gradient to the AlexaHeadline template. If you set the boolean param backgroundOverlayGradient to true, a linear gradient appears. Official document says: When true, apply a gradient to the background. ...but I don't know where to set the gradient. Any ideas?...

I am currently building an Alexa Skill using my own .NET-Backend, which should return an AlexaTextList with dynamic contents from my service. The request by Alexa looks the following: { "version": "1.0", "session": { "new": false, "sessionId": "amzn1.echo-api.session.d5f8d9ee-bdd0-4c70-96...

When developing my Alexa skill, Each time I want to change user's screen in my skill (using APL), I return a new APL document. However, this is slow because it must load the document each time. Is there a better way to do this instead of returning a new document each time? I have found some info ...

I want to have a header at the top of my Alexa Skill APL page that shows a Title and a Sub-Title. Directly below it, I want to have an image. In other words I want to have the Title and Sub-Title in a box that sits at the top of the image, occupying the top row of the screen. The AlexaHeader c...

I have an Echo Spot and I'm using Alexa Presentation Language (APL) to implement the user interface. I want to have user input by using the built-in keyboard. Is it possible to invoke the built-in keyboard in Node.js SDK?

When I am using the Alexa Developer console display tool screen animation work perfectly. When I try and use the Echo Show, all the images are projected really quickly then the animation starts.... What am I doing wrong. I have already tried changing the opacity and tried switching to pager. Pag...

I have created a small example project to test the AutoPage command in combination with the OnPageChanged Event. However the event only seems to be triggered if I touch the screen myself and change a page. The event is not triggered by the automatic paging. I could not find any information on th...

I am developing an alexa skill that creates reminders using alexa reminders API so i would like to know if i can add a screen interface that will be displayed on my echo spot device when the reminder is triggered

I am trying to render an Apl document while Alexa is speaking her speech. I tried with a pager with several pages and the AutoPager command. The problem I am trying to solve is that the document is rendered when Alexa starts speaking but the command is started when the speech is finished, and I w...

This lambda function I got from github allows to create a gamebook for Alexa linking to Twine 2. It works pritty well. I would like to make it multimodal with the new APL language for Alexa, but I'm getting stuck. I have created a main.json file with the APL code, which is now in the folder of m...

Hello i want to program a Multimedial Amazon Alexa Skill, with the new APL langues. My question is, if there is any good tutorial outside which explain how it works. I already programmed a normal alexa skill but just without the APL. Thank you