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Touching Screen Pauses Skill

When using APL, when the user touches a button when expected, it works fine, but when the user touches a part of the screen that is not a button, the skill just pauses what it was doing (i.e. dialog, screen change) This happens, when user scrolls through a ScrollView as well. Is there a way to have control over this so that the skill does not pause when the screen is touched? Also, how can you continue the interaction after the skill pauses from a screen touch that isn't something like a button ? (best practice?)

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KirkC@Amazon answered

Hi gnuhc. As mentioned via your contact us case, the behavior described, where by tapping the screen of a device, Alexa's voice output stops, this behavior is by design and is not something that can be modified by an Alexa skill.

To your second question, about how a user would continue interacting with a skill that was interrupted in this way, a user would need to use their device's wake word first and then provide their response.

As a developer you can submit a feature request in our uservoice space via the following link:
http://alexa.uservoice.com/

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