Android Google Assistant Integration

The app actions allow the user launch certain functionallity of your app from outside of it, there among them:

• Google Assistant
• App Hovering Shortcut

Terminology

• shortcuts
• capability
• built-in intent (BII)
• Dynamic Shortcuts
• Static shortcuts

Quick Start

1. Create a xml/shortcuts.xml

Start by creating a shortcuts.xml file inside the xml folder.

2. Link the Shortcuts to your Manifest

You have to let the Android OS know that you have shortcuts and capabilities on your app by linking it in the AndroidManifest.xml

<activity ..>
...
<meta-data  
        android:name="android.app.shortcuts"  
        android:resource="@xml/shortcuts" />
...
</activity> 

3. Create a shortcut

To make a shortcut available to the OS and therefore client-facing when holding the app icon.

<shortcut  
        android:shortcutId="created_matches"  
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"  
        android:shortcutShortLabel="@string/shortcut_open_match"  
        android:enabled="true">  
    <intent  // Intent called once the user presses the button
            android:action="android.intent.action.VIEW"  
            android:targetPackage="com.tapadoo.example" 
            android:targetClass="com.tapadoo.example.MAIN" />   
</shortcut>

4. Create an Assistant Capability

You can choose any of the pre-build intents and assing any of the exposed variables to the intent, you can customise the name that you pass to it.

<capability android:name="actions.intent.OPEN_APP_FEATURE">  
    <intent  
            android:action="android.intent.action.VIEW"  
            android:targetPackage="com.tapadoo.gaamatchtracker"  
            android:targetClass="com.tapadoo.test.MatchActivity">  
        <parameter  
                android:name="feature"  
                android:key="feature" />  
    </intent>  
</capability>

5. Inline Inventory

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