Implementing Skill Detail Section in SUSI Android App
SUSI Skills are rules that are defined in SUSI Skill Data repo which are basically the responses SUSI gives to the user queries. When a user queries something from the SUSI Android app, a query to SUSI Server is made which further fetches response from SUSI Skill Data and gives the response to the app. Similarly, when we need to list all skills, an API call is made to server to list all skills. The server then checks the SUSI Skill Data repo for the skills and then return all the required information to the app. Then the app displays all the information about the skill to user. User then can view details of each skill and then interact on the chat interface to use that skill. This process is similar to what SUSI Skill CMS does. The CMS is a skill wiki like interface to view all skills and then edit them. Though the app can not be currently used to edit the skills but it can be used to view them and try them on the chat interface. API Information For listing SUSI Skill groups, we have to call on /cms/getGroups.json This will give you all groups in SUSI model in which skills are present. Current response: { "session": {"identity": { "type": "host", "name": "14.139.194.24", "anonymous": true }}, "accepted": true, "groups": [ "Small Talk", "Entertainment", "Problem Solving", "Knowledge", "Assistants", "Shopping" ], "message": "Success: Fetched group list" } So, the groups object gives all the groups in which SUSI Skills are located. Next comes, fetching of skills. For that the endpoint is /cms/getGroups.json?group=GROUP_NAME Since we want all skills to be fetched, we call this api for every group. So, for example we will be calling http://api.susi.ai/cms/getSkillList.json?group=Entertainment for getting all skills in group “Entertainment”. Similarly for other groups as well. Sample response of skill: { "accepted": true, "model": "general", "group": "Shopping", "language": "en", "skills": {"amazon_shopping": { "image": "images/amazon_shopping.png", "author_url": "https://github.com/meriki", "examples": ["Buy a dress"], "developer_privacy_policy": null, "author": "Y S Ramya", "skill_name": "Shop At Amazon", "dynamic_content": true, "terms_of_use": null, "descriptions": "Searches items on Amazon.com for shopping", "skill_rating": null }}, "message": "Success: Fetched skill list", "session": {"identity": { "type": "host", "name": "14.139.194.24", "anonymous": true }} } It gives all details about skills: image author_url examples developer_privacy_policy author skill_name dynamic_content terms_of_use descriptions skill_rating Implementation in SUSI Android App Skill Detail Section UI of Google Assistant Skill Detail Section UI of SUSI SKill CMS Skill Detail Section UI of SUSI Android App The UI of skill detail section in SUSI Android App is the mixture of UI of Skill detail section in Google Assistant ap and SUSI Skill CMS. It displays details of skills in a beautiful manner with horizontal recyclerview used to display the examples. So, we have to display following details about the skill in Skill Detail Section: Skill Name Author Name Skill Image Try it Button Description Examples Rating Content type (Dynamic/Static) Terms of Use Developer’s Privacy policy Let’s see the implementation. 1. Whenever a skill Card View is clicked, showSkillDetailFragment()…