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Mastering iOS 12 Programming

You're reading from   Mastering iOS 12 Programming Build professional-grade iOS applications with Swift and Xcode 10

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133202
Length 750 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. UITableView Touch-up FREE CHAPTER 2. A Better Layout with UICollectionView 3. Creating a Detail Page 4. Immersing Your Users with Animation 5. Understanding the Swift Type System 6. Writing Flexible Code with Protocols and Generics 7. Improving the Application Structure 8. Adding Core Data to Your App 9. Fetching and Displaying Data from the Network 10. Being Proactive with Background Fetch 11. Syncing Data with CloudKit 12. Using Augmented Reality 13. Improving Apps With Location Services 14. Making Smarter Apps with CoreML 15. Tracking Activity Using HealthKit 16. Streamlining Experiences with Siri 17. Using Media in Your App 18. Implementing Rich Notifications 19. Instant Information with a Today Extension 20. Exchanging Data With Drag And Drop 21. Improved Discoverability with Spotlight and Universal Links 22. Extending iMessage 23. Ensuring App Quality with Tests 24. Discovering Bottlenecks with Instruments 25. Offloading Tasks with Operations and GCD 26. Submitting Your App to the App Store 27. Answers 28. Other Books You May Enjoy

Streamlining Experiences with Siri

Over the past few years, Apple has provided developers with more and more opportunities to integrate their apps with iOS. One of these opportunities is in integrating your application with Siri using the SiriKit framework.

In this chapter, you will work on an existing application called Hairdressers. This application allows users to book an appointment with their hairdresser for a certain day, and can also message their hairdresser directly. You will learn how you can integrate Siri Intents extensions to allow users to message their hairdresser through Siri. You will also implement the new Siri shortcuts to allow users to quickly schedule their appointments with their regular hairdresser.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

  • Understanding intents
  • Implementing an intents extension
  • Adding a custom UI to a Siri intents extension...
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