Can i use Alexa skill Reminder API and Proactive events API without AWS lambda? - alexa

I want to integrate Proactive Event API and Reminder API into Alexa skills. I saw some examples using aws lambda. I want to know if i can use it using my own service?

You can yes - it's just an HTTP call so you can do that from wherever works best for your infrastructure/skill. Please refer to the documentation here:
Reminders API
Proactive Events

I would highly recommend using the ASK SDK to develop your skill as it handles authentication for you among other things.
See this tutorial with a live code video on how to integrate the RemindersAPI using the ASK SDK for Node.js.

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Alexa skill to access a website

I have recently strated learning about Alexa skills. I was wondering if we could access different websites using alexa. For example, "Alexa, show me my facebook notifications"
So far I have seen examples of how we can create WebAPIs using Amazon API Gateway. But can we access a different website or a blog with GET or POST method that is not using Amazon API Gateway.
Also, what authorizations will be needed to do this?
For example, "Alexa, show me my facebook notifications"
Yes, it is possible to have that kind of functionality.
Currently, I'm developing with nodejs and use the request-promise module for making HTTP request to my server.
Also, there is a nice tutorial using the request npm module.

is there any skype api available to integrate with salesforce [skypedeveloper]

we wanted customize our salesforce application via giving the skype conference link while sending the email from the application itself. the application is completely on visualforce pages and controller so i dont see any appexchange app will help on this.
I have already checked the below links though i could not get any integration apis
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/ucwa/onlinemeetinginvitation_ref
https://ucwa.skype.com/websdk
There are no integration Apis as of now. Only you have to write your own integration logic using Skype for Web SDK. It is a bit complicated SDK and not properly documented or maintained. It has tight coupling with Azure AD and video streaming doesn't work in Chrome/Firefox.
Some integration use cases/examples can be found here
Other relevant information.
https://dev.skype.com/
https://github.com/OfficeDev/skype-docs/tree/master/Skype

Google Assistant API

Is there some google assistant api guide or tutorial? I cannot find anything related by these keywords. There seems have some Android app integration guide, but I want to integrate with my cloud service, not android app.
I find IFTTT have connected Google Assistant to several services, so I want to add some intents to my custom service.
I have built an Alexa app by using Alexa Skill Kit to handle my customize intent, and want to find something similar in Google Assistant developer playground, but I have no clue.
Thanks!
Google Assistant API was officially launched by Google for Windows, Mac, and Linux by which you can Get Google Assistant on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
If you wish to create voice applications for Google Assistant which are called as Google actions you will have to rely on the developers guide posted here
There is also an introductory course on udemy for the same.
I personally have used dialogFlow
and for the backend and I used firebase and have hosted a few apps into the store
Google Assistant will open its SDK to developers this December.
There's been a quite a lot of development on supporting the developer ecosystem, including the release of the Google Assistant SDK, app templates, and the ability to host and edit your integration via Firebase Functions.
For some code samples see
Conversational Components for Google Assistant
DialogFlow (previously Api.ai) v2 Samples

Best JavaScript Client Libraries to do OAuth2.0(Google) and access Google CloudEndPoints in phonegap?

I have been developing an online accounting software which is a web application. We use Secured Google Cloud Endpoints in our project. Now I would like to securely access those endpoints in phonegap. So, for that I would like to do OAuth2.0(google) and access my API securely. I have been struggling for a while to find good JavaScript Client Libraries to access my Secured API in phoneGap.
Please help me...
Any replies would be appreciated.
Finally After some struggle I have figured out the solution. If we are trying to do Google OAuth in phone gap its better to use normal JQuery and for calling the Secured Google Cloud Endpoints we can go with Google JavaScript Client Libraries. I have found a sample project oauth-google-api-gapi-phonegap-childbrowser-jquery which is a very good start for the beginners.

Google App Engine CardDav Example

I am developing an application in Java using Google App engine. I have Google Contacts CardDAV API to access contacts.
How would I configure my project to access the contacts information. I googled but there isn't any proper guidance available for the same.
Help with example will be very appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
You could take a look at the CardDAV API specification in this article on Google Developers. You simply need to interact with it like any other RESTful API, issuing commands like GET, POST, DELETE. You can easily issue these requests by using the HttpURLConnection class (documentation here).

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