Deliver/bundle entire Shortcut automations with an app

Is there any way of creating complete Shortcuts automations and bundling them with my app? Specifically, I would like the user to be able to

  • Take a photo and open it with my app
  • Or take a screenshot and open it with my app

Of course I could offer a Share extension, but going through the Share menu and selecting my app there is time consuming for the user. I would like the user to be able to configure his or her action button such that it takes a new picture and opens it with my app right away.

I can, of course, offer the respective App Shortcuts and let the user combine them into a pipeline with the Take Screenshot or Take Photo system actions. However, only power users would do this. Hence, I would like to bundle this complete pipeline with my app, such that the user just has to assign his/her Action Button to this pipeline if he/she wants to use this feature.

How to go about this? I was thinking of exporting the shortcut into a file, bundling it with the app as a resource, and offering it via a Share action for the user to install it, or by sharing it on iCloud and adding the iCloud link to the UI of my app. What is the recommended approach?

Deliver/bundle entire Shortcut automations with an app
 
 
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