Building an action

To build a Google Assistant Action, we need to start from Dialogflow. Broadly, the steps are as follows:

1. Build a Dialogflow agent.
2. Create a web app that accesses the Todoist service.
3. Integrate the agent with Google Actions.
4. Test it in the simulator.
5. Test it on Google Home.

Building a Dialogflow agent

To build a Dialogflow agent, follow these steps:

1. Go to dialogflow.com and sign in using your Google account.
2. Click the drop-down menu on the left and click Create new agent:

3. Add agent info and click SAVE:

4. This will create a new Google project assigned to the agent. You can view the settings info by clicking the Settings icon next to the agent's name on the drop-down list.

5. Let's add four intents to the agent to begin with:

• greet
• add_task
• inform_task_description
• list_all_tasks

We assume here that the user will begin the conversation with a greeting (the greet intent) followed by a request to either add a task (add_task) or list all tasks for the day (list_all_tasks). In the following request...