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Alexa, How to create skills that support display ?

Over the past few years there have been a tremendous increase in the number of Alexa skills published. Deploying an Alexa skill is not hard. All that is required is an AWS lambda function and an interaction model. It's easier if you use one of the built in templates provided . So instead of creating a basic skill, let's take a look at how to customize skills for devices with display.  When Amazon echo was launched, these devices had no display interface. It could only handle speech. But skills had the option to use cards to display minimal details in the Alexa app. Later on  devices like Echo show and Echo Spot were introduced. These devices come with screens and so nowadays while creating skills it's really important to make sure customers that use devices with display and those who use headless devices have an optimized experience. Supporting devices with display If you decide to create an Alexa skill that supports devices with display, then the first thing