Build Android Chatbot with Dialogflow (API.ai)

In this article, we will be sharing steps to integrate chatbot into your app. All you need to build a sample for an android app is and dialogflow Android chatbot Dialogflow Kommunicate. Below is an example of developed in android using Dialogflow. We actually use this bot on our website. If you wish to see the bot live in action, head . Kommunicate Support Bot here The actionable rich messaging powered bot can reply based on whether users are on chat for general queries, technical queries or scheduling a demo. You can use your existing dialogflow bot or checkout to build a qualifying bot of your own. Download the Kommunicate Support Bot from and import into your Dialogflow account. bot samples here Step 1: Setup an account in Kommunicate This is fairly simple. You can get a free account in . Signup and navigate to the . Click on in Dialogflow block. Kommunicate Bot section Settings Upload your Dialogflow provided client keys. In case you are using Dialogflow V1, you can copy paste your client and dev tokens. Though, we recommend using Dialogflow V2 for the latest capabilities. Step 2: Install Dialogflow integrated Android Chatbot SDK into your app Add Android SDK to your app Installing Kommunicate in your Android app is easy and fast. Kommunicate SDK comes with pre-configured dialogflow integration. Add the following in your app build.gradle dependency: Installation implementation 'io.kommunicate:kommunicate:1.6.3' **Initialize SDK**After the Gradle sync has finished with kommunicate dependency, you can initialize the SDK by calling the below method: Kommunicate.init(context, Your-APP-Key); You can get the Application Key by signing up on Kommunicate Dashboard.For full documentation, refer . here Sample Android app with Dialogflow Chatbot Here is a sample android app which has dialogflow chatbot integrated. and run it in android studio. Download Step 3: Launch Android chat app with Dialogflow integrated chatbot Now, you can send payload to dialogflow through chat screen and get text response from Dialogflow Agent.Kommunicate provides a ready to use Chat UI so only launching the chat screen is required in this step. Here are the instructions for launching the chat with Dialogflow bot: List agentList = new ArrayList();agentList.add("agent1@yourdomain.com"); //add your agentID List botList = new ArrayList();botList.add("bot1"); //enter your integrated bot Ids Kommunicate.launchSingleChat(context, "Support", Kommunicate.getVisitor(), false, true, agentList, botList, new KmCallback(){@Overridepublic void onSuccess(Object message) {Log.d(context, "ChatLaunch", "Success : " + message);} @Overridepublic void onFailure(Object error) {Log.d(context, "ChatLaunch", "Failure : " + error);}}); That’s all! Run the Android app and chat with the Dialogflow bot. You can easily integrate Dialogflow in Android apps in a few simple steps. In case you need more information, you can check out the Kommunicate documentation. Dialogflow Android SDK Dialogflow provides Android Client SDK that makes it easy to integrate speech recognition with API.AI natural language processing API on Android devices. If you are looking to develop your own chat implementation and directly integrate dialogflow into your android app without kommunicate SDK, then integrate with the following SDK. Github — Dialogflow Android Client SDK Read more about dialogflow and bot integration here: Integrate Dialogflow (Api.ai) Bot into Website Beginner’s Guide to Creating Chatbots Using Dialogflow This article is originally published . here