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SwiftUI Essentials – iOS 14 Edition

By : Neil Smyth
Book Image

SwiftUI Essentials – iOS 14 Edition

By: Neil Smyth

Overview of this book

Do you want to create iOS apps with SwiftUI, Xcode 12, and Swift 5.3, and want to publish it on the app store? This book helps you achieve these skills with a step-by-step approach. This course first walks you through the steps necessary to set up an iOS development environment together and introduces Swift Playgrounds to learn and experiment with Swift—specifically, the Swift 5.3 programming language. After establishing key concepts of SwiftUI and project architecture, this course provides a guided tour of Xcode in SwiftUI development mode. The book also covers the creation of custom SwiftUI views and explains how these views are combined to create user interface layouts, including the use of stacks, frames, and forms. One of the more important skills you’ll learn is how to integrate SwiftUI views into existing UIKit-based projects and explain the integration of UIKit code into SwiftUI. Finally, the book explains how to package up a completed app and upload it to the app store for publication. Along the way, the topics covered in the book are put into practice through detailed tutorials, the source code for which is also available for download. By the end of this course, you will be able to build your own apps for iOS 14 using SwiftUI and publish it on the app store. The code files for the book can be found here: https://www.ebookfrenzy.com/retail/swiftui-ios14/
Table of Contents (56 chapters)
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Index

41.4 SiriKit Intents

Each domain allows a predefined set of tasks, or intents, to be requested by the user for fulfillment by an app. An intent represents a specific task of which Siri is aware and for which SiriKit expects an integrated iOS app to be able to perform. The Messaging domain, for example, includes intents for sending and searching for messages, while the Workout domain contains intents for choosing, starting and finishing workouts. When the user makes a request of an app via Siri, the request is placed into an intent object of the corresponding type and passed to the app for handling.

In the case of Siri Shortcuts, a SiriKit integration is implemented by using a custom intent combined with an intents definition file describing how the app will interact with Siri.