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Actions on Google: Daily Updates & Push Notifications Sample

This sample demonstrates Actions on Google user engagement features for use on Google Assistant including push notifications and daily updates -- using the Java client library and deployed on App Engine.

Setup Instructions

Prerequisites

  1. Download & install the Google Cloud SDK
  2. Gradle with App Engine Plugin
    • Run gcloud auth application-default login with your Google account
    • Install and update the App Engine component,gcloud components install app-engine-java
    • Update other components, gcloud components update

Configuration

Actions Console

  1. From the Actions on Google Console, New project (this will become your Project ID) > Create project > under More options > Conversational.
  2. From the top menu under Develop > Actions (left nav) > Add your first action > BUILD (this will bring you to the Dialogflow console) > Select language and time zone > CREATE.
  3. In Dialogflow, go to Settings ⚙ > Export and Import > Restore from zip.
    • Follow the directions to restore from the agent.zip file in this repo.
  4. In the src/main/resources/config.properties file of the project, update the value of the project_id field with the project ID of your newly created project.

Cloud Platform Console

  1. From the Dialogflow console under Settings ⚙ > Google Cloud link
  2. In the Cloud console, go to Menu ☰ > APIs & Services > Library > select Actions API > Enable
  3. Under Menu ☰ > APIs & Services > Credentials > Create Credentials > Service Account Key.
  4. From the dropdown, select New Service Account
    • name: service-account
    • role: Project/Owner
    • key type: JSON > Create
    • Your private JSON file will be downloaded to your local machine
  5. Rename private key file to service-account.json and store in the src/main/resources/ directory.

Firestore Database Configuration

  1. From the Firebase console, find and select your Actions on Google Project ID
  2. In the left navigation menu under Develop section > Database > Create database button > Select Start in test mode > Enable

Configure Daily Updates and Notifications

  1. From the Actions on Google console > under the top menu Develop > Actions (left nav):
    • Select the tell_tip intent > under User engagement > Enable Would you like to offer daily updates to users? > add a title Advice Alert > Save
    • Select the tell_most_recent_tip intent > under User engagement > Enable Would you like to send push notifications? If yes, user permission will be needed > add a title Latest Info Alert > Save

App Engine Deployment & Webhook Configuration

When a new project is created using the Actions Console, it also creates a Google Cloud project in the background.

  1. Configure the gcloud CLI and set your Google Cloud project to the name of your Actions on Google Project ID, which you can find from the Actions on Google console under Settings ⚙
    • gcloud init
  2. Deploy to App Engine using Gradle:
    • gradle appengineDeploy OR
    • From within IntelliJ, open the Gradle tray and run the appEngineDeploy task.

Dialogflow Console

  1. Return to the Dialogflow Console, from the left navigation menu under Fulfillment > Enable Webhook, set the value of URL to https://${YOUR_PROJECT_ID}.appspot.com > Save.
  2. From the left navigation menu, click Integrations > Integration Settings under Google Assistant > Enable Auto-preview changes > Test to open the Actions on Google simulator then say or type Talk to my test app.

Running this Sample

  • In the Dialogflow console, from the left navigation menu > Integrations > Integration Settings under Google Assistant > Enable Auto-preview changes > Test to open the Actions on Google simulator.
  • Type Talk to my test app in the simulator, or say OK Google, talk to my test app to Google Assistant on a mobile device associated with your Action's account.
  • To test daily updates, choose a category. After the tip, the app will show a suggestion chip to subscribe for daily updates. Once a user is subscribed, they will receive update notifications daily for the time they specified.
  • To test push notifications, choose to hear the most recent tip. After the tip, the app will show a suggestion chip to subscribe for push notifications. To send a push notification to all subscribed users, type "send notification" at any point during the conversation.

References & Issues

Make Contributions

Please read and follow the steps in the CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

See LICENSE.

Terms

Your use of this sample is subject to, and by using or downloading the sample files you agree to comply with, the Google APIs Terms of Service.

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