Integrating Siri with Custom Intents in SwiftUI

[@oliversauter2154]

btw Siri works in the Simulator by long pressing on the "screen lock" button or in the menu bar on Device > Siri

[@programmingwithapurpose6807]

Yes it does work in a way that we can launch it as a target but still i wasn’t able to configure it to receive voice input using my macbook. So yeah i couldn’t test the code but i am hopeful with xcode 16+ this issue will specifically be fixed due to hyper focus on apple intelligence

[@oliversauter2154]

@@programmingwithapurpose6807 For me it worked fine to open apps etc. What was the part that did not work for you?

[@programmingwithapurpose6807]

I was not able to configure mac to pass microphone input to Siri. Hopefully it will be easy to handle in Xcode 16.

[@FalconerCH]

Is there a reason to use app groups instead of shared user default storage? Also, I'm using the shortcuts app to create automation using custom intents. I can set up the automation fine and run the intent on my phone, but the intent handler is not called and the values are not stored on my phone

[@programmingwithapurpose6807]

Yes there is a reason, we use app groups where there are two different Targets. It is just like user defaults but they have a domain where they store and hence share values. If you create custom intent using the process i have shown most probably it would create two folders one for project and other for the intent separately so we require app groups.

[@FalconerCH]

@@programmingwithapurpose6807 Oh that makes a lot of sense. Thank you so much!

[@dharmitshah7018]

Is there any way possible though appintent siri command example: my application is for any document convert to pdf so i create app intent for my app In mail app i have an word file that word file i want convert to pdf through my application is that thing possible using app intent siri command like "convert doc file to pdf from my app"?

[@programmingwithapurpose6807]

Seems like it is possible but we have to wait for mac os update along with xcode 16 stable build. There is a demo code for many purposes to create multiple type of intents. Check it out under intents documentation for some help

[@dharmitshah7018]

​@@programmingwithapurpose6807oky thanks 😊

[@sajalkaushik5929]

Same thing can be achieved just by using App Intents. Please correct me if I am wrong

[@programmingwithapurpose6807]

Yes but this video shows how to do it with custom intent, launch with a target, where to customize user input. Custom intent is basically app intent with more features.