Building the Factly Skill

Now, since we understand how data flows to and from our Factly Skill, it is time to actually build it. For this purpose, we will build the actual Lambda via the Amazon Developer portal.

We will assume that the reader knows about and has already signed up to the Amazon Developer portal, and is already aware of the basic starter information about the Amazon Alexa Skills Developer Portal, since this has also been already covered in detail in Chapter 2, Hello World, Alexa!. We already covered account creation and other basic details for the Amazon Developer Portal in Chapter 2, Hello World, Alexa!, so we will not be repeating those here.

We shall begin with the skill creation:

  1. On the Skill builder checklist, select ...

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