Using Siri Shortcuts

In iOS 12, Apple introduced Siri Shortcuts. Siri Shortcuts are a way to create shortcuts to your app for your users. For example, let's say a user, every Tuesday, makes the same date night reservation with his wife at her favorite restaurant. Instead of having to go through all the steps each time, we can make this easier. Let's see how this works.

Open up your Info.plist file and add academy.cocoa.LetsEat.reservation-activity-type to NSUserActivityTypes. Make sure that you are in Info.plist for the app and not one of the other targets:

Now that we have our Info.plist set up, let's add some code. Open up the RestaurantDetailViewController.swift file and the following imports:

import Intents
import CoreSpotlight
import CoreServices

Next, add the following method after:

func setupReservation(with description: String) {
   let reservationActivity...