Расскажи про app intents для чего они нужны и что в низ нового
Generated on 8/9/2024
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App Intents are a powerful way to surface your app's functionality to the system, allowing users to interact with your app's features outside of the app itself. They can be used in various system experiences such as Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts, widgets, and more.
What are App Intents?
An app intent consists of a summary of what it does, which starts with the app followed by a verb, and includes the parameters that people need to fill out before the intent is run. App intents can be combined with other intents into shortcuts to create powerful new flows that they could not do alone.
New Updates in iOS 18
In iOS 18, the guidance for app intents has been expanded. Previously, app intents were meant to be the most habitual tasks in your app that could be useful outside of your app. Now, anything your app does should be an app intent. This means you can create a rich set of flexible app intents, but it's important to avoid making several different intents for the same task to keep them clear and maintainable.
Structuring App Intents
When structuring your app intents, it's crucial to make sure the parameter summaries are always readable as a sentence, regardless of the selected parameters. This helps users understand what your app intent does when exploring in the shortcuts drawer. Additionally, if your app supports live activities, audio playback, or recording, you should create app intents that make it possible to perform these actions from the background.
Integration with Siri
App intents are also a foundation for integrating your app with Siri. They allow you to define your app's core actions and content so that system features like Siri can present them outside your app. This year, thanks to Apple Intelligence's new large language models, Siri is more capable and flexible, making it easier to integrate your app's features with Siri.
Sessions to Watch
For more detailed information, you can watch the following sessions:
- Design App Intents for system experiences
- Bring your app’s core features to users with App Intents
- Bring your app to Siri
These sessions cover everything from the basics of designing app intents to integrating them with Siri and other system features.
Design App Intents for system experiences
App Intents power system experiences in controls, Spotlight, Siri, and more. Find out how to identify the functionality that’s best for App Intents, and how to use parameters to make these intents flexible. Learn how to use App Intents to allow people to take action outside your app, and see examples of when to navigate into your app to show contextual information.
Bring your app’s core features to users with App Intents
Learn the principles of the App Intents framework, like intents, entities, and queries, and how you can harness them to expose your app’s most important functionality right where people need it most. Find out how to build deep integration between your app and the many system features built on top of App Intents, including Siri, controls and widgets, Apple Pencil, Shortcuts, the Action button, and more. Get tips on how to build your App Intents integrations efficiently to create the best experiences in every surface while still sharing code and core functionality.
Bring your app to Siri
Learn how to use App Intents to expose your app’s functionality to Siri. Understand which intents are already available for your use, and how to create custom intents to integrate actions from your app into the system. We’ll also cover what metadata to provide, making your entities searchable via Spotlight, annotating onscreen references, and much more.