Android & Assistant: a match made in heaven

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Android reaches 2.5 billion monthly users and Google Assistant recently quadruples to over a billion devices, and app actions let an installed app surface via voice by matching built‑in intents to an actions.xml mapping in res/xml; deep links use Android Studio’s App Links Assistant, slices require a SliceProvider and the Slice Viewer ADB tool, and fulfillment can launch activities or return UI. Developer preview is US English only, one built‑in intent is broadly available now, testing uses the app actions test plugin, and onProvideAssistContent plus Firebase App Indexing improve visibility.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:19What are app actions
3. 5:52Why use app actions
4. 9:27Developer preview limits
5. 13:25App architecture needs
6. 14:27Building deep links
7. 17:21Using slices
8. 19:10Configuring actions.xml
9. 21:16Optimizing for Assistant
10. 23:23Testing and deploying
11. 26:11Summary and Q&A

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