Siri/Shortcut/Media Intent support
A work in progress. Have implemented INPlayMediaIntent & INAddMediaIntent till now. Only supports iOS 14+ due to embedding intent within application. Fixes #1344 (closed)
INPlayMediaIntent: If you specify a song, artist, album, playlist, or genre, to Siri, VLC will be able to play it in the background. Specify a video or a media group, and VLC will open and play it in the foreground.
INAddMediaIntent: If you ask VLC to add the currently playing media item to a playlist, VLC will be able to add it.
Current problems:
I haven't implemented support for it to play a video yet.Currently returning the .handleInApp response code works but has siri say "Sorry, you'll need to continue in VLC"Audio files always opened in the video player.
Current changes:
- new Intent Coordinator class
- added Siri entitlement to VLC-iOS
- new identifier property in VLCMetadata
- add intent handling for INPlayMediaIntent, INAddMediaIntent (handler in VLCAppDelegate, sent to my Intent Coordinator class)
Next steps:
- add fuzzy search (ask siri to play song "Love", and find the song "luv" in the VLC library VLCMediaLibraryKit#30)
add generic command support ("play something / play some music")fix shuffle (#1726 (closed))- fix VLC stopping playback if asking siri to play something while something is already playing (#1711?)
- make sure video always opens in fullscreen (occasionally opens in miniplayer... need to debug)
- use secondary data to enhance search (use every non-nil property given by Siri when searching for media)
if playing audio, start playback from beginning.queue rest of the album if 1 song is playing- add support for INSearchForMediaIntent
- if playing media group, start from last played media item
add support for INAddMediaIntent- add support for intent donations -> siri suggesting users to continue listening to an album, continue watching a film, etc
- add shortcut support for these intents. Unsure how to, and if they're not already integrated into the Shortcuts platform