AoG Workshop: Build a personalized, Firebase powered Google Assistant App

*** CANTONESE (zh-yue-Hant-HK) sessions***

Preparatin Codelab for The 1st Global Voice & Travel Hackathon - Hong Kong Round

This AoG codelab is preparation workshop for the participants joining The 1st Global Voice & Travel Hackathon - Hong Kong Round(Register hackathon https://gdghk2019-aoghackathon.eventbrite.com). In this codelab, attendants will have a basic understanding of Actions on Google and will be able to create an APP for the Google Assistant.

Some seats are available for non-hackathon participants, you may consider to register the hackathon after this codelab event.

This time we will briefly go through the basic of Action of Google and Google Assistant, then we will do the code lab level 2 & 3. You'll learn how to deploy a NodeJS AoG project to Firebase, define Dialogflow custom entities, request permission to access user information, store user preference and data in session or cross-conversations, handle user silence and cancellations, respond user with sound effects and visual responses.

Content level: Beginner
Language: Cantonese, with English slides

No coding knowledge prerequired, at least you don't afraid facing a branch of code. We will do our best to briefly introduce relevant concepts.

**Must bring a laptop** (PC, Mac or Chromebook)! The labs will run on all of the latest versions of the popular browsers. For the best experience, make sure your laptop has Chrome installed.

*We may not let you join the event if you have no laptop on the event day.
*Make sure your laptop has enough battery or bring the charger.

Google Assistant Developer Community Program

To encourage attendants to build great Google Assistant apps, Google(not GDG Hong Kong) has offered a developer community program. For all developers(not only attendants of this event) who submitted an eligible app to Google Actions directory before Sept 30, 2019 at 11:59 PM (PST) and successfully approved by Google, will get a Google Assistant t-shirt + cloud credits for a year, and may get a Google Home device for further checkpoint achieved. Read details and T&C in: https://developers.google.com/actions/community/

What's Google Assistant?

Google Assistant is an artificial intelligence-powered personal virtual assistant that enables conversations between you and Google to get things done. Google Assistant is available on mobile and smart home devices, already accessible on more than 1 Billion+ devices.