I was hoping to use the Shortcuts app Automation on the iphone to create a simple automation and was nearly there...but it doesn't look like the iphone allows for a simple "reply" option when automating a text. It wants you to provider a contact to send it to.
Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this? My goal is that IF I get a text message that contains STOP, respond STOP to that sender without any input. These political spam text are insane and there's no product around that seems to do a good job of preventing them. I need to automate the removal of myself from this list and an auto response campaign seems to be the only way.
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I’m no new user of Apple products, but I am brand new to coding and automation on iPhone. I’ve created an automation that does something at a specific time of day, but that’s as far as I’ve gotten because there’s limited settings they offer without me coding anything in. I’m trying to change a specific setting in the settings app “Notifications->(App)->turn notifications off” but I’m not sure how, or even if it’s possible to do, outside of what’s already programmed in. Thanks in advance, if anyone figures it out and lends a hand. (Edit: I would automate Do Not Disturb because that seems like the simple answer, but long story short, I don’t want anyone to see banners of messages and read my texts without my phone unlocked, and Do Not Disturb doesn’t do that as far as I’m aware.)
I have an idea of making a live commentary assistant for football matches and so far this is what I have achieved:
I am using Dialogflow and achieved linking it with Actions on Google, so every time I say something Dialogflow can detect and fire an event to google home so the Google home responses.
The thing I would like to know more is, how about for example when a team scores a goal and google assistant catch that instantly, in real time.
One possibility is, I have the API for getting all the matches and scores updated every time team scores and fetch that every second and then call an intent in dialogflow so that will fire to google home assistant, but I am thinking that is somehow not the best idea.
Does anyone have any idea about this?
Sorry I am not adding any code, as the code in this case is not important as is the approach, idea how to achieve it.
Unfortunately, Actions on Google is not suited for this kind of use-case. The platform is designed for conversational experiences, where there's a back and forth. The platform intentionally limits real time features like background continual listening as well as things like push notifications.
Push notifications do work on phones, although not other surfaces like smart speakers (ie. Google Home). You can use that to get close to the behavior you may want, but otherwise it may not be suitable for your use case.
We're working on a app for blind and visually impaired users. We've been experimenting with a third party library to get spoken user input and convert it to text, which we then parse as commands to control the app. The problem is that the word recognition is not very good and certainly not anywhere near as good as what iOS uses to get voice input on a text field.
I'd like to experiment with that, but our users are mostly unable to tap a text field, then hit the mic button on the popup keyboard, then hit the done button or even dismiss any of it. I'm not even sure how they can deal with a single tap on the whole screen, it might be too difficult for some. So, I'd like to automate that for them, but I don't see anything in the docs that indicates it is possible. So, is it even possible, and if so, what's the proper way to do it so that it passes verification?
The solution for you is to implement a keyword spotting so that the speech recognition will be activated with the keyword instead of button tap. After that you can record commands/text and recognize them with any service you need. Something like "Ok google" activation on Motorola X.
There are several keyword activation libraries for iOS, one possible solution is OpenEars based on the open source speech recogntion library CMUSphinx. If you want to use Pocketsphinx directly, you can find keyword activation implementation in kws branch in subversion (branches/kws)
The only way to get the iOS dictation is to sign up yourself through Nuance: http://dragonmobile.nuancemobiledeveloper.com/ - it's expensive, because it's the best. Presumably, Apple's contract prevents them from exposing an API.
The built in iOS accessibility features allow immobilized users to access dictation (and other keyboard buttons) through tools like VoiceOver and Assistive Touch. It may not be worth reinventing this if your users might be familiar with these tools.
I hope this is not a duplicate, but I couldn't find what I'm interested in.
I'm trying to build some automated tests that will use an iPhone. The best tool I can find for this seems to be UI Automation, but from what I can tell so far, I need to run it against a specific app. My tests need to be more general. For example, I want to be able to answer an incoming call in the default dialer.
I would like to be able to automate the iPhone itself, not a specific app. My tests might involve switching between apps or making calls. The main features I need are to be able to take a screenshot and touch certain coordinates on the screen, regardless of what is on the screen and running at the time.
Can anyone suggest the proper way to set this up? I'd like to use the supported UI Automation tools, but would like to use them in a more general way.
Thanks
I'm working on an application for a business client. Currently he has a desktop application which is poor in many respects but which has the benefit of being instantaneous when it comes to generating and printing things like invoices / statements.
I am basing the app on server-side PHP (Codeigniter) and a MySQL db, on the client-side I will use HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and EXTjs.
Now, I can handle data transactions pretty much instantly on the client-side with data storage using Javascript and the delay when processing Ajax queries is not significant.
What I am stuck with is how to generate/create invoices (either PDF or RTF) very quickly and send them to the printer without any intervention by the user - i.e. they could be viewing a screen-based invoice and they should be able to click Print and have it appear at the printer without any need to approve a download or save. The business has to be able to create invoices on demand with their customers forming a queue waiting - so delay is not an option.
Is this possible or - and I hate to ask this because of the learning curve involved - am I going to have to look at Flex / AIR?
Any help/advice would be very helpful.
Thank you and best wishes
Mike
I'm afraid there is no way to print pdf/rtf docs in one click. At least I don't know how to do this. One idea is that you could have the entire application in ExtJs or whatever you like, but add a Flex part which will be in charge of printing.