First-Class React Native Apps with iOS App Intents

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React Native apps become Siri/Spotlight/widgets-ready by adding a Swift/SwiftUI App Intents extension, generating the two targets and defining verbs, nouns, and entity queries; the demo app surfaces site deploy and status actions (it actually triggers builds and returns last-deploy times). Implementation requires duplicated logic in Swift and RN, data via API or shared app group/extension storage, keychain needs an access group, and broken intents fail silently so test in Shortcuts and on device (iOS 27 adds a testing framework).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:36React Native apps first-class on iOS
3. 5:50App Intents and why they matter
4. 7:36Setting up App Intents in React Native
5. 10:23Defining actions in Swift
6. 12:08Pitfalls with App Intents
7. 13:34Testing App Intents with Shortcuts
8. 15:40Best practices for App Intents
9. 17:06Android’s App Functions and future
10. 17:49Future of app interaction
11. 18:12Closing remarks

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