continueUserActivity not called from search closed app

ios xcode ios9 user-activity corespotlight
Niko Zarzani picture Niko Zarzani · Sep 20, 2015 · Viewed 11.9k times · Source

I am trying to use core spotlight to open a view controller from the spotlight search results.

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application continueUserActivity:(NSUserActivity *)userActivity restorationHandler:(void(^)(NSArray *restorableObjects))restorationHandler 
{

if(self.window.rootViewController){
    [self.window.rootViewController restoreUserActivityState:userActivity];
}

return YES;
}

This seems to work when the app is already running in background, however when it is closed and I tap on the spotlight search result it seems that this method gets not called and the behavior I get is that my application simply starts in the main interface.

Do you have any suggestion for making it work also when my app is closed? Is there a way to debug what is happening (since I need to run the app to get the debugger attached I don't know how to simulate the app opening from the search result)?.

Answer

Ivan Oliver picture Ivan Oliver · Sep 21, 2015

Niko,

first of all: there's a way to start your app from Xcode and not opening it immediately: open your scheme properties, go to the "run" section, and under "info", there's a switch that will help you to debug what's happening:

"Wait for executable to be launched".

If you activate this switch, you can launch the app from Xcode, Xcode will wait until the app is opened from search and then it will attach the debugger to it.

Hope that helps!

Ivan

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