Build Talking Apps for Alexa

Tying Up Loose Ends

Before we can publish our skill, there are a few to-do items we should address. Specifically, there’s an intent and its associated handler that we no longer need and that should be removed. We should also review and fine-tune a few of the responses returned from a few of the built-in intent handlers. We’ll start by saying goodbye to the HelloWorldIntent.

Removing Unused Intents

When we first began working on our skill, we based it on the “Hello World” template. With the “Hello World” template came the HelloWorldIntent and its associated intent handler. That helped us get started with a working skill right away and provided a convenient and simple intent to play around with until we could add more intents. Although we could ...