Casey LissWhat API controls these quick links?
Brandon Horst@caseyliss AppShortcuts!
Matt Corey@brandonhorst @caseyliss I don't know - my app uses AppShortcuts, but it doesn't look like Amazon’s. When looking at this view, it seems like they have a single 'Open Amazon' OpenIntent, with different parameters applied, and somehow stylized.
Matthew Cassinelli@matt1corey @brandonhorst @caseyliss It is App Shortcuts, and they've taken the Open action & made parameterized instances of it with App Shortcuts.
This is a combination of parameterized phrases from the first year of App Shortcuts & the Spotlight integration from the second year.
Here's where they start to talk about it: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc22/10170?time=851 Then the rest is in Brandon's linked video.
You can also use Suggested Entities to show nicely-designed entities in Spotlight as well
@matthewcassinelli @matt1corey @brandonhorst Granted I've only been looking at this for ten minutes, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to write an Intent that basically just deep-links into the app…? I just watched that section of the video — thank you! — but I don't think I'm grokking how to just open the app.
@matthewcassinelli @matt1corey @brandonhorst Oh wait it looks like maybe this is what I want, for iOS 18 anyway
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents/openurlintent
@brandonhorst @matthewcassinelli @matt1corey Although that looks like it requires a web endpoint, which Callsheet doesn't have 😩
@caseyliss @brandonhorst @matt1corey This part of another of the latest videos walks though the basics of an Open Intent, but I'm assuming it's not what you want because you're trying to make a quicker version using the URL scheme instead, right? https://developer.apple.com/wwdc24/10210?time=592
@matthewcassinelli @brandonhorst @matt1corey For some cases, this may work as well. But annoyingly, most of what I want to do with Intents is already defined as custom callsheet:// URLs, yeah.
@caseyliss @matthewcassinelli @brandonhorst For most of my OpenIntents, I have the deep link logic directly in the Intent code - this is an example of an OpenIntent that opens a Ledger in Bills to Budget, and navigates to a specified screen, but it can also be done with an AppIntent that has ‘openAppWhenRun' set to true.
It is a parameterized AppIntent -- it still doesn't look anything like the fancy Amazon shortcut, though
@matt1corey Is `navigator` a singleton? Where is it coming from?
(A summary is perfectly acceptable; I don't necessarily need to see code)
@caseyliss Ah, important detail -- ’navigator' here is an ObservableObject that I create at the root of my SwiftUI tree, and inject into the Environment. It drives the navigation of my root NavigationSplitView and NavigationStack’s, and has methods to show sheets and inspectors, so I can control this from anywhere.
I also add that (and other things) into my `AppDependencyManager`, so I can ‘inject' them into my AppIntents using the @.AppDependency mechanism
@matt1corey Is `Navigable` an `actor`? Because it needs to be `Sendable`, no?
@caseyliss I think I have it isolated to MainActor, since it’s all UI related
@matt1corey ooooooooooh iiiiiiinnnnnnteresting 🤔
