app intents and Siri Shortcuts
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App Intents and Siri Shortcuts were prominently discussed at WWDC 2024, highlighting how developers can integrate their app's core features into system experiences like Siri and Shortcuts.
App Intents
App Intents is a framework that allows developers to define a set of actions for Siri, Shortcuts, and other system experiences. This framework enables apps to tap into Apple Intelligence, making it easier for users to interact with app functionalities outside the app itself. App Intents can be combined with other intents into shortcuts, creating powerful new flows. The framework automatically detects app shortcuts, which are available from Siri and can be displayed visually in places like Spotlight.
Siri Shortcuts
Siri Shortcuts allow users to perform actions in apps using voice commands. With the integration of App Intents, these shortcuts can be more personalized and context-aware. The Shortcuts app is a powerful tool where users can explore, combine, and remix actions to create custom shortcuts. Developers can test their app intents using the Shortcuts app, which connects them to the entire Shortcuts ecosystem, including personal automations and home screen shortcuts.
Sessions to Explore
- Bring your app’s core features to users with App Intents (08:06): This session covers how to build code using the App Intents framework to integrate app features with system experiences like Siri and Spotlight.
- Bring your app to Siri (08:34): This session discusses the new capabilities of Siri and how app intents can be used to integrate apps with Siri, including a sneak peek at personal context features.
These sessions provide a comprehensive overview of how to leverage App Intents and Siri Shortcuts to enhance app functionality and user experience.
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.
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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.