I'm not sure if I have found a bug with iOS or if it's just unexpected behavior with my implementation. I have a gomobile library that sets up a local http server. It needs to be able to write to temporary storage. If I use the shared library from my main apps process it can write to the file manager.default temporary storage.
while Xcode is running a debug session I can use that same process from my file provider replicated extension and it works fine. However I realized running my file provider extension where it starts the gomobile shared library directly instead of first from my app the library fails to write anything to the file provider manager default temporary storage or the file provider manager for my file provider domain temporary storage or even the app group library.
it is odd, because I have a swift URL extension that confirms the temporary storage can be written to from swift. I have monitored console logs for fileproviderd, my file extension and have tried writing data to a log file. nothing seems to catch exactly what causes the file provider extension to crash and restart.
I also cannot keep the shared gomobile server running in the background on iOS even if I were to force the user to "authenticate" with the main app first. Im pretty sure the file provider extension needs to run the gomobile library for it to work right.
I'm wondering if something may be wrong with the iOS sandbox that could be preventing the file provider extension to let a c based gomobile shared library from accessing the temporary storage.
Any guidance for further things to try would be greatly appreciated. I have tried every avenue I can think of.
I cannot run just the appex itself on either my m4 pro MacBook or my iPhone so attaching the debugger has been tricky and I don't see much in the way of useful logs in console app either just a swarm of noise.
Im fairly confident it's an issue to writing to temporary storage from the gomobile c library and not much else. App was working great on macOS designed for iPad which just seemed rather ironic that an iOS code base runs better on macOS than it was able to on my iPhone 16 pro max. Like im all for the sandbox I just wish it didn't treat c level gomobile libraries different than it treats the swift code itself.
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I am very new to App Intents and I am trying to add them to my On Device LLM ChatBot app so my users can get answers to any questions anywhere in iOS.
I have the following code and it is working wonderfully in the Shortcuts app.
import AppIntents
struct AskAi: AppIntent {
static var openAppWhenRun: Bool = false
static let title: LocalizedStringResource = "Ask Ai About"
static let description = "Gets an answer from Ai for your question."
@Parameter(title: "Question")
var question: String
static var parameterSummary: some ParameterSummary {
Summary("Ask Ai About \(\.$question)")
}
@MainActor
func perform() async throws -> some IntentResult & ReturnsValue<String> {
let bot: Bot = Bot()
await bot.respond(to: self.question)
return .result(
value: bot.output
)
}
}
class AppShortcuts: AppShortcutsProvider {
static var appShortcuts: [AppShortcut] {
AppShortcut(
intent: AskAi(),
phrases: [
"Ask \(.applicationName) \(\.$question)",
"Get \(.applicationName) answer for \(\.$question)",
"Open \(\.$question) using \(.applicationName) ",
"Using \(.applicationName) get help with \(\.$question)"
],
shortTitle: "Ask Ai",
systemImageName: "sparkles"
)
}
}
I can create a shortcut for this AppIntent and that allows me say speak the response.
I can call my shortcut via iOS 18 Beta 1 by the Shortcut name I set in the Shortcuts app and that allows it to work.
It does not work at all by just Asking Siri any of the phrases I have defined.
The info.plist has an app name alias defined just to be sure.
I even added the Siri capability in Xcode-beta.
I also tried using the ProvidesDialog return type too.
Whatever I do the AppIntent is invisible to Siri.
Siri tries to search the web, looking for my app name in the contacts or have an error Apple Cash which has nothing to do with what I was talking about.
Is there anything else I am missing for setting up iOS AppIntents to work with Siri?