Exposing Your App to Siri with App Intents
For many years, apps have lived and operated alone in system space. Each app is totally isolated from the others, without the capability to communicate or expose data.
Over the years, things have changed a bit. One of the most exciting features apps gained was enhancements in App Intents. At this point, you should be familiar with App Intents—we discussed them in Chapter 5. However, in iOS 18, App Intents became even more powerful as they worked closely with Apple Intelligence and not just with WidgetKit. That’s why we are going to cover App Intents in more detail.
In this chapter, we will learn about the following:
- Understanding the App Intents concept
- Creating a simple app intent
- Formalizing our content using app entities
- Adjusting our app intents to work with Apple Intelligence
The ability of App Intents to open up our app is truly remarkable and full of potential. But first, let’s understand...
