Alexa-WeatherApp

The project contains aws lambda function to fetch weather information from dark sky public api and tell appropriate response to skill users. You can enable MyWeather skill from here

Requirement :

• Java version >= 1.7
• kotlin version >= 1.1.3-2
• Alexa Skills Kit
• Apache dependencies : Commons Lang, HttpClient, HttpCore
• AWS lambda dependencies : java core, log4j
• DarkSky Forecast API

Implementation :

• To get basic idea to implement AWS lambda function for java follow this alexa sample skill Hello world
• To target your alexa skill you need to replace your alexa skill id in WeatherSpeechletRequestHandler.class which you will be able to get from alexa developer console
• In this skill we used dark sky weather api so you have to replace your dark sky api key in API_KEY constant in Constants.kt
• You can refer interaction model for MyWeather skill from here

Other resources.

• Build alexa skill in Java tutorial : http://thegeekettespeaketh.com/2017/02/build-an-alexa-skill-java-1/
• Dark sky api : https://github.com/200Puls/darksky-forecast-api
• Hello world sample skill : https://github.com/alexa/skill-samples-java/tree/master/helloworld