I try to open a specific screen of my app through Siri.
I'm done with CustomIntent and Siri shortcuts. But I expect that users do not need to do anything(do not need to add shortcuts to Siri), they still tell Siri "Hey Siri, do xxx in myApp" and myApp will open the specific screen.
How to handle this?
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I am using "react-native-siri-shortcut' library to make shortcuts.
suggestedInvocationPhrase for my shortcut is "It's Tea Time" so when the user says "Hey Siri, It's Tea Time" then Siri opens the app and gives the whole shortcut object via addShortcutListener, but this listener only works when the app is in foreground or background.
This listener is not working when the app is completely closed.
So now what I want is to make an one shortcut that work's without opening the app. I just want to call a single API whenever the user say "Hey Siri, It's Tea Time" and once the API called Siri have to say back "Your order was placed successfully..." (I want all this process without opening the app).
here are some reference:
https://medium.com/simform-engineering/how-to-integrate-siri-shortcuts-and-design-custom-intents-tutorial-e53285b550cf
https://github.com/Gustash/react-native-siri-shortcut/issues/87
I would like to be able to tell Siri "Hey Siri, play [app name]" for my radio app, and have it play a default station. What are the basic steps to achieve this? I'm not really looking for a Siri Shortcut per se, but built in "play" functionality. Is this possible?
You can achieve the following with Swift.
However, without any coding, Hey Siri, open [App Name] is possible automatically.
To add custom functionalities such as play a default station, please refer to this link
Goal: when I open a specific app, it automatically opens MyApp first before I can proceed to the specific app.
Say I want to open my Gmail app. When I click Gmail, before Gmail can open, I want to open/display MyApp that says "Hey - are you sure you want to open up Gmail right now?" first as a reminder. Then, I can click "Yes" and continue on to opening Gmail. Does Apple let you do this?
According to Intents and thanks to this thread, I know that you can open your app via Siri with "Open [APP NAME]",
What I want to know is if it is possible to tell to Siri just only one word like 'Cheese' to open the Camera app or an other specific keyword set beforehand to open your own app using Siri.
Is it possible ? If yes, I have to use Intents to do that or there is another way ?
Siri runs on the OS level, so in order to use any intents you have set within your app, the user must specify your app.
"Get a ride with Lyft" or "Message Mom in Facebook" etc..
More examples in the doc:
https://developer.apple.com/sirikit/
You can use shortcuts app which comes inbuilt in all iOS devices, for knowing more about Siri Shortcuts refer below links.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sirikit/adding_user_interactivity_with_siri_shortcuts_and_the_shortcuts_app
https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/news/apple/144718-what-is-siri-shortcuts-and-how-does-it-work
When I say "Translate English to Spanish" Siri opens the app Google Translate.
How does Siri know to launch this app and is it possible to register your app for certain keywords with Siri?
Usually you can open an app telling Siri something like:
"Open [APP NAME]"
My guess
In your case I guess Siri is not interpreting the sentence. When you say Translate English to Spanish Siri does try to understand what action should take and since no action with an hight Matching Rate is found then Siri tries to open the App having a name equals to the first word of your sentence.
Test 1
In Italian language the app is named Traduttore. When I say Traduci dall'italiano all'inglese (Translate English to Spanish) Siri does NOT open the translator because Traduttore does not match Traduci.
Test 2
If I say: Musica dall'italiano all'inglese (Music italian to english) which is not a real command, Siri does open the Music app.
Siri and third parties apps
Right now the interaction between Siri and third parties apps is pretty limited, however maybe in the future Apple will provide the tools for a deeper interaction.
Maybe something like what is happening with HomeKit where Apple created an interface to make Siri and Home Devices to talk each other.
You should look at Siri's custom vocabulary.
At the moment it is limited to your App's name and Apple specified domains e.g. Workouts or Ride Booking
But if you're lucky enough that your application falls within those categories you can map some more app specific terminology.
For example, if you had a rock climbing application, Ascent, you could start with a voice command similar to "Hey Siri, start climb" rather than "Hey Siri, start workout with Ascent"
All of your localized vocab choices should be placed into their appropriate language-specific project directories (.lproj).