How To Develop A Widget For iOS App?

Widgets display relevant and clear content and allow users to quickly access your app for more details. Your application can provide various widgets that allow users to focus on the information that is most important to them. They can add multiple copies of the same widget and customize each to their unique needs and layout. Users can also customize each widget individually by including a custom intent in the widget.

Widget for iOS app 

Developing Swift commit tracker widget

To do something like this, we can make a request to GitHub’s public APIs, parse the information, and render it to our widget. We can start by creating a new iOS project. The details of the project don’t matter because for this tutorial all the code will be inside the Widget module.

Timeline provider

The content displayed by iOS 14 Widgets works similar to watchOS complications in that instead of an extension that runs constantly, you suddenly provide a timeline of events that the OS should display over the course of hours, days. or even weeks. This is useful for apps like Weather and Calendar, where you can predict what will be displayed in the future because you already have that information.

Getting started

Download the project materials using the Download Materials button at the top or bottom of this tutorial. Before opening the starter project, open a Terminal, cd to the starter emitron iOS development folder, and then run this command, you are creating some secret files needed to run the project. Some packages take a while to load, so here’s some information about the project while you wait. The project is open source.

Conclusion

If there are any issues or feature requests, flutter widgetkit is the place to ask. All source code shown on this blog is in this repository. In addition to the flutter library, I developed react native widgetkit, which offers the same functionality only with React Native.