iOS 10 Siri support for Workouts with custom vocabulary

Question

In my app I'd like to be able to tell Siri something like:

So I enabled the Siri capability, added a target, implemented the INStartWorkoutIntentHandling (and also the other) delegate methods and everything works.

I can now say Start a workout with MyAppName. Perfekt!

Now I'd like to tell her something like Start an activity using MyAppName, or even Start a hike using MyAppName.

So I went and added a AppIntentVocabulary.plist looking something like that: Quick question there... the Vocabulary item identifier... If the work- Hike f.e. should be used for start, end, pause, resume, cancel... should the identifier be the same for all of them?

Now I face three problems.

1. I can tell Siri Start a hike and it will work, she will ask me which app I should be using. I tell her Start a hike using MyApp and she will tell me that she can't find that on Apple Music?!? What the hell?

2. If I add the word Activity into my Vocabulary she will only open the iOS Activities App... Never ask if I may want to open my app.

3. On submission I get a punch of missing words-warnings Like No example phrase was provided for INStartWorkoutIntent in the "en" language which I do have! or Sample phrase "Start a Hike using MyAppName" was not classified as a INStartWorkoutIntent intent

I would be very very happy if someone could show me a valid sample of a AppIntentVocabulary.plist file that works fine with siri and iTunes Connect!

Answer 1

Unfortunately no you cannot replace workout to activity or hike.

Sirikit only supports very limited doamins as of now.

In case of workout intent,Siri expects the phrase :Workout to be in the spoken phrase else siri will not open the app.

For exmaple:You will have to say Start a hike workout using My app.Before that you will have to register custom vocabulary and include hike or any other workout name in invocabulary list