DANIEL MYERS: Welcome to "Assistant on Air,"
where we have conversations with people
who build for Google Assistant.
I'm Dan, and I'll be your host today.
I'm a developer advocate for Actions on Google.
And today, we'll be chatting with Ismael,
who is a Google Developer expert for Google Assistant,
and we'll be talking all about community hackathons.
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Welcome.
ISMAEL CHAILE: Hello, Dan, thank you very much.
DANIEL MYERS: So I want to learn a little bit more about you.
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself?
ISMAEL CHAILE: Yes, I am a developer for Google Assistant.
I have a PhD in distributed artificial intelligence.
And currently, I am running a business and a startup
where I am the CEO and the founder.
The name of the startup is Aineth.
And we are mainly working with Google Assistant,
creating actions for the community.
DANIEL MYERS: That's impressive background.
Can you tell me a little bit more
about what you mean by building actions for your community?
ISMAEL CHAILE: Yes, of course.
Our focus is to create conversational experiences
for the community well-being.
And for that, we are focusing on the community.
We are creating actions related to games
and also other actions related to transportation, for example.
What we are looking for, is to help
people to interact with the digital environment
by using their voice.
DANIEL MYERS: Awesome.
Well, that's really cool.
So what are some of the things that you've
learned when developing these kind of applications
or actions?
ISMAEL CHAILE: Oh, I learned many things, many things.
Let me say just say a few.
As for example, when you are developing,
it is very important, the richness
of a action that you are creating.
And also, it is very important the quality that you
are applying to the action.
This will be translated in amazing user experiences.
And also, good things that it has a Google Assistant
and developing actions is that the actions
could be published and appear in more than one billion devices.
And as our focus is to help people,
we need an interface that people use.
And this is what Google Assistant is providing us.
DANIEL MYERS: So that's great.
So when building and developing these kinds of actions,
we mentioned putting on hackathons.
Can you tell me a little bit more about that?
ISMAEL CHAILE: One of the tips that when you are building
for the community is, you have to know the community that you
are living in and what they are needing, what are their pains.
And also, it's very important that you are solving something
for the current community, but this problem
could be helping other communities too.
So while you are helping one community, in the future,
you could be helping other communities too.
DANIEL MYERS: And so for somebody
that wants to get more involved in building actions
for their community like this, what are some resources
that they may be able to see online or go and learn,
to learn more about building something like this?
ISMAEL CHAILE: Great question.
Currently, Google Assistant is a big product.
Has a several other lines where you can develop.
For example, if you are interested to build
some interfaces to become your home smarter,
you can use the Smart Home API of Google Assistant.
If you want to create only conversations,
you can create a conversation as API.
If you want to be in games, you can use Interactive Canvas API
to provide this.
And also, if you want to interface your current Android
applications, you can use App Actions.
And you can find this information in the Actions
on Google website, where you can find everything
about this product in a very well explaining and easygoing
way.
DANIEL MYERS: Awesome.
That's really cool.
So what about any kind of sample code
or maybe Codelabs to where if they
want to really dive deep and use this source
code to learn more as well?
Are there additional resources for that?
ISMAEL CHAILE: Yes.
You have the Codelabs that are being provided by Google
that you can use for it.
And also, you can use the Qwiklabs.
There are many resources there to learn Actions on Google,
for example.
DANIEL MYERS: Thank you so much, Ismael, for coming on today
and sharing all of this information with us.
ISMAEL CHAILE: It was a great pleasure
to be interviewed by you.
Thank you very much.
DANIEL MYERS: Thank you.
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