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11: Pager Components

Join Alexa Champion Mark Tucker as he discusses how to create a comic viewer with the Pager Component in Alexa Presentation Language (APL).

The Pager allows for data binding and displaying multiple child components. Each item in the array is a page in the Pager.

If you would like to follow along, please use this APL Ninja Link: https://apl.ninja/document/MarkTucker...

APL Pager Documentation: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/do...

APL Data Sources: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/do...

APL Transformers: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/do...

APL SpeakItem and SetPage Commands: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/do...

APL Events Normal vs Fast Mode: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/do...

You will also learn about the onMount and onPageChanged events, the SpeakItem and SetPage commands, transformers, and object data sources. You will learn how to solve the issue of commands not executing in fast mode and how a sequencer can fix it by causing them to run in normal mode.