iOS 9 Search APIs
- 1. What you’ve been looking for iOS 9 Search APIs
- 2. What ? • New search APIs allow apps to submit their data to Spotlight. • Anything can be indexed! User states, Core Data objects, images, contacts, whatever you want • 3 different, but complementary APIs
- 3. Should I care? • Don’t look past first page • Apps have rich structured data which is very useful and important to user. • Discoverability, Engagement. Huge, Quickly
- 4. In Action • App search results show up in spotlight. • Tapping on result allows app to take action, and restore state. • Engagement with search results help rank relevant entries.
- 5. Organic Discovery! Apps which aren’t installed show up in results!
- 6. Technical Stuff • NSUserActivity (From iOS8, Handoff) • Core Spotlight • WebLinks
- 7. NSUserActivity • Index things the user has ‘seen’ or results of actions • Could be states, screens within the app
- 10. Call me, maybe • Actions can be launched from search!
- 11. Core Spotlight • Index the hard ‘data’ of your app that may be useful. • Core Data entities, SQLite entities, etc
- 12. Index the data!
- 13. NSUserActivity & CS • Using both APIs make sense. User interacts with a piece of data in the app. (ticket, recipe, note, image) • ua.contentAttributeSet.relatedUniqueIdentifier = searchitem.uniqueIdentifier
- 14. Weblinks • App marketing page is starting point for AppleBot • By using micro formats from schema.org • If content mirrored on the web, CSSSearchableItem.URL great for search rank.
- 15. Thanks and good luck