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 @matthewcassinelli @matt1corey It doesn’t! You can use `onOpenURL` to handle it directly from SwiftUI. I think you may also need `.handlesExternalEvents` and an Info.plist param to support a custom url sceheme.
@brandonhorst @matthewcassinelli @matt1corey This leads me to believe otherwise…?
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents/openurlintent#Overview
@caseyliss @matthewcassinelli @matt1corey Oh wow, I think that line (and enforcement) was added in some recent beta. It definitely worked at one point in this beta cycle, but it is indeed failing for me now. Wicked bummer.
@brandonhorst @caseyliss @matt1corey There's been a couple other threads about this, it seems like it wasn't intentional that it was possible and isn't allowed. Probably because they can't validate the destination, and URL schemes are a major vector for security issues
@matthewcassinelli @brandonhorst @caseyliss Universal Links are a pain to setup, but once I did it, I find plenty of use for them, including In-App events
@matt1corey @matthewcassinelli @brandonhorst Honestly I really need to set up some sort of web front-end for universal links but I **so very much** do **not** want to run any sort of web server
Joe Fabisevich 
@caseyliss @matt1corey @matthewcassinelli @brandonhorst Late to this but you don’t really need a server, just a domain. What I do is have a Cloudflare worker that is just a JSON blob, and if it doesn't hit one of my configured routes, it will redirect to the website. It's like 10 lines of code, very little setup, and no maintenance, can share later if that sounds appealing.
SENTINELITE@mergesort @caseyliss @matt1corey @matthewcassinelli @brandonhorst I'd appreciate something like this! There was something on GitHub where they were “intercepting” the deep links (mentioned above) & routing locally, but I suppose that's no longer possible. Interesting!