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As previously discussed, the purpose of Siri Shortcuts is to allow key features of an app to be invoked by the user via Siri by speaking custom phrases. This chapter will demonstrate how to integrate shortcut support into an existing iOS app, including the creation of a custom intent and intent UI, the configuration of…

When SiriKit was first introduced with iOS 10, an app had to fit neatly into one of the SiriKit domains covered in the chapter entitled “An Introduction to SiriKit” in order to integrate with Siri. In iOS 12, however, SiriKit was extended to allow an app of any type to make key features available for…

In this chapter, an example project will be created that uses the Photo domain of SiriKit to allow the user, via Siri voice commands, to search for and display a photo taken on a specified date. In the process of designing this app, the tutorial will also demonstrate the use of the NSUserActivity class to…

Each SiriKit domain will default to a standard user interface layout to present information to the user during the Siri session. In the previous chapter, for example, the standard user interface was used by SiriKit to display to the user the message recipients and content to the user before sending the message. The default appearance…

The previous chapter covered much of the theory associated with integrating Siri into an iOS app. This chapter will review the example Siri messaging extension that is created by Xcode when a new Intents Extension is added to a project. This will not only show a practical implementation of the topics covered in the previous…

Although Siri has been part of iOS for a number of years, it was not until the introduction of iOS 10 that some of the power of Siri was made available to app developers through SiriKit. Initially limited to particular categories of app, SiriKit has since extended to allow Siri functionality to be built into…

The previous chapters introduced Live Activities and created an example project demonstrating Live Activities in action. While testing the example app, it became evident that, regardless of configuration settings, Live Activity updates can be infrequent when the app is in background mode. While we have limited control over when an update will be processed, this…