How do AppIntents work?
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App Intents are a framework designed to expose your app's core features to system experiences outside of the app itself. This allows features from your app to be accessed through system features like Siri, Spotlight, and Shortcuts. The framework handles the communication between your app and these system features, allowing you to focus on implementing the actual behavior of your app's features.
App Intents consist of a summary of what they do, starting with the app followed by a verb, and include parameters that users need to fill out before the intent is run. They can be combined with other intents into shortcuts to create powerful new flows. The framework is designed to be flexible, allowing you to share code across different system features and support several features with the same code.
For more detailed guidance on designing App Intents, you can refer to the session Design App Intents for system experiences, which covers which App Intents to make and how to structure them effectively.
Bring your app’s core features to users with App Intents
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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.