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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 2. A Better Layout with UICollectionView FREE CHAPTER 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

Implementing Siri Shortcuts

If you have used iOS for a while, you may have noticed that in places such as the notification center, Siri suggests certain apps you might want to use at a certain time. Siri can do this because it continuously learns about the apps you use, when you use them, and where you are when you use them. By learning your behavior, Siri can make accurate predictions about what you might want to do next.

With the introduction of iOS 12, Apple has announced a new, powerful feature for Siri. This feature is called Siri Shortcuts, and it allows app developers to teach Siri about certain actions that a user performs in their apps. Siri then learns about these actions and offers them to the user at the appropriate time.

If you book a taxi home every day at a certain time, and the app you use has implemented Siri Shortcuts, Siri can offer you a shortcut to quickly...

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