Amazon has launched Custom Interfaces to help developers & device manufacturers to connect gadgets with Echo smart speakers.
It said on its official blog that Custom Interfaces enable a skill to trigger gadget behaviors, & enable the skill to act on information it receives from a gadget.
The interfaces that the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit provides enable you to trigger gadget behaviors in reaction to Alexa’s native capabilities, such as notifications & wake word detection. Unlike Custom Interfaces, these interfaces cannot be accessed from an Alexa skill.
Custom Interface can include custom directives, custom events, or both. Custom directives & custom events are separate; developers do not need to use one to use the other.
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