How to know the app was launched from an AppIntent in a widget?

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Is it possible to tell in your code if the app was launched from an app intent action in a widget.

In my SwiftUI code it has something like Button(intent: MyIntent()) I want to be able to tell when the user has clicked on the button to launch the app, because I need some different setup code to run before the intent perform method is called.

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markdaws

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Try it and examine the launch options in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions to see if there's anything there. If not then if you widget gets the chance to, then it could write a flag to group defaults which the app reads on launch.

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Answer 1

I think the only way is to share information with the app through App Group or URL parameters and process the desired task in the app. A long time ago, there were ways to get information about running processes in iOS, but they have all been abandoned.

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Jun Sang Hyun

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Answer 2

Look at the section "Detecting the originating widget" here

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/widgetkit/linking-to-specific-app-scenes-from-your-widget-or-live-activity

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How to know the app was launched from an AppIntent in a widget?

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