Save MyLoc - Track. Connect. Care. Embrace.

Save MyLoc offers the premier location saving action with a tad bit of personalization. The goal here is to create an action to basically carry out your mundane task of remembering places. What if you tend to forget your friend’s house or just as simple as your local grocery store or a bus stop. Our action enables you to store these daily places of interest. So let say you had to visit your vacation house near the beach and you don’t really remember the exact path. You can now ask Save MyLoc to save your location as your “Vacation Beach House”. The next time you visit, it will be hassle-free. This will make the concept of your saved places, relative and flexible enough.

Testing Instruction

This Action is currently deployed. You can test it directly on your Google Assistant by saying, Talk to Save MyLoc.

Setup Instructions - For Future Developement

1. Use the Actions on Google Console to add a new project with a name of your choosing and click Create Project.
2. Scroll down to the More Options section, and click on the Conversational card.
3. On the left navigation menu under BUILD, click on Actions. Click on Add Your First Action and choose your app's language(s).
4. Select Custom intent, click BUILD. This will open a Dialogflow console. Click CREATE.
5. Click on the gear icon to see the project settings.
6. Select Export and Import.
7. Select Restore from zip. Follow the directions to restore from the Save-MyLoc.zip file in this repo.
8. Deploy the fulfillment webhook provided in the functions folder using Google Cloud Functions for Firebase:
   • Follow the instructions to set up and initialize Firebase SDK for Cloud Functions. Make sure to select the project that you have previously generated in the Actions on Google Console and to reply N when asked to overwrite existing files by the Firebase CLI.
   • Run firebase deploy --only functions and take note of the endpoint where the fulfillment webhook has been published. It should look like Function URL : https://${REGION}-${PROJECT}.cloudfunctions.net/dialogflowFirebaseFulfillment. If the Function URL doesn't show, you can always check at the Firebase console.
9. Go back to the Dialogflow console and select Fulfillment from the left navigation menu. Enable Webhook, set the value of URL to the Function URL from the previous step, then click Save.
10. Select Integrations from the left navigation menu and open the Integration Settings menu for Actions on Google.
11. Enable Auto-preview changes and Click Test. This will open the Actions on Google simulator.
12. Type Talk to my test app in the simulator, or say OK Google, talk to my test app to any Actions on Google enabled device signed into your developer account.

Current Features

• Save a location with a custom name. Location precision is upto 10^th decimal place.
• Suggested common names of places with custom image and quotes.
• Save a place without a name. Mark the name tag as "Untitled Place".
• View a list of all saved places.
• View the saved place directly on the Google Maps app.
• Implicit calls to the Action, which can save a place in just one steps.
• Random easter eggs included. Try to find it all.

Sample Screenshots

Build

This was a passion project built by Amrit Dash and Manish Rath with lots of scope to improve. If anyone wants to take up the build and add features, modify existing code or simply make it more modular. You are free to do it.

Feel free to contact us if you want any help understanding some parts of the code or simply want to re deploy the Action after making modifications. We can add you as an collaborator to the Actions project.

License

GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 3, 19 November 2007

Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. FSF

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.