Can we use android phones as google home device

Question

After creating private API.AI agent, I can test it using the simulator. But is it possible to test it in Android phones ?

Answer 1

You can do this now that Google has pushed the Assistant to the Google Pixel, Nexus 6p, and Nexus 5x. No other phone currently can use the assistant.

Edit 4/17/17: Upon successfully deploying my own agent I was expecting to be able to use it on my phone after being able to test and preview it on my phone. However it was not working so I contacted their support and got the following answer:

Sorry for the inconvenience, but Actions on Google are not currently supported on any device other than Google home. The functionality you are referring to was the result of a bug that allowed access across multiple devices to a subset of users, that bug was patched and that is why you lost the functionality. Google is planning to make Actions on Google available across multiple devices, but as per policy, we don't comment on timelines for releases in support.

Answer 2

As given in https://docs.api.ai/docs/sdks API.AI has provided support for many platforms and using it we can access our private agent. i.e as given in https://github.com/api-ai/api-ai-android-sdk#getting_started , I created android app by providing access_token detail of my agent and now I can pass the request via my android phone; similarly i used node.js and can make request to my API.AI agent from Linux PC

Answer 3

Not yet. But you can use the "Agent Page" under Integration in API.AI to give you a web view you can use from the phone. Easy to share too!