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Android 6 Essentials

You're reading from   Android 6 Essentials Design, build, and create your own applications using the full range of features available in Android 6

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884412
Length 122 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yossi Elkrief Yossi Elkrief
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Voice interactions


Voice interactions usually originate from user voice action. However, the voice interaction activity starts without any user input. Android Marshmallow has a new voice interaction API that, together with voice actions, allows us to build conversational voice experiences into our apps. Use the isVoiceInteraction() method to determine whether an activity is triggered by a voice action. Then, you can use the VoiceInteractor class and interact with the user.

Don't get confused with the isVoiceInteractionRoot() method, which returns true only if the activity is also the root of a voice interaction. Here, you will get true if your activity was started directly by the voice interaction service and not by another activity (another app) while undergoing voice interaction.

A best practice would be to prompt the users and confirm that this is their intended action. You already know that voice input is invoked from Google Now, where you can open URLs with a simple voice input, such...

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