iOS 9 Search APIs by Steve Foster

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   iOS 9 Search APIs

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   Spotlight Search lets the user search for deep links that

   live within an app.
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   So how does that work?

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   AppleBot

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   iTunesConnect

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   Two Indexes

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   How can we use that?

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   3 Search APIs

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    NSUserActivity • First introduced in iOS 8 • Used in

    Handoff • Can be marked as searchable • Add meta data • Application state • Allows the user to revisit activity when searching
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    NSUserActivity

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    magic

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    NSUserActivity

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    NSUserActivity • Activities are private by default • Activities can

    be mark as public • Numerous users interact with activity • “Popular” results are available to others
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    CoreSpotlight New in iOS 9 API for add/update/delete items Used

    by Messages, Mail, Calendar
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    CoreSpotlight

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    CoreSpotlight

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    CoreSpotlight

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    Web Markup Allows AppleBot to discover website Mobile deep links

    into your app
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    Web Markup

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    Steve Foster @flightblog