Overview
- Develop widgets with intuitive, easy-to-learn, and consistent user interfaces following Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines
- Implement applicable code to bring your users' home screens to life with widgets
- Configure widgets with IntentConfiguration and StaticConfiguration
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About this book
Develop handy, UI/UX friendly and eye-pleasing widgets using the brand new WidgetKit. Apple’s brand new widgets allow iOS users to work with their favorite apps in the home screen of their iPhone or iPad without even opening the app!
Join us in this exciting journey as we explore the APIs introduced in Apple’s WidgetKit framework. You'll dive into the human interface guidelines (HIG) for creating widgets and review the recommendations Apple gives to developers for developing widgets with intuitive, easy-to-learn, and consistent user interfaces. In addition, you’ll take a look at some SwiftUI views that are useful not only in creating widgets for iOS apps, but also for creating iOS apps themselves.
You’ll put everything you learn into practical application by actually writing code and creating widgets. Get a clear view of how everything works so that you’re able to incorporate widgets into your real-world projects authentically and successfully.
- Configure widgets and make them talk to APIs using URLSession
- Work with timelines and event handling in widgets
- Fetch content from a remote server and display the data in a widget
- Make content dynamic both remotely and locally
Who This Book Is For
iOS developers working in the Apple ecosystem with a basic understanding of SwiftUI.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prakshapan Shrestha is an entrepreneurial app developer with 6 years of iOS development experience. He devoutly follows the latest tools and technologies that make a developer's life easier and actively helps out budding developers. Aside from software development, Prakshapan enjoys hiking and heading his recent venture, Pregasathi, which provides new families in need of baby products with help.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Getting Started with WidgetKit
Book Subtitle: Create Widgets for iOS and iPadOS
Authors: Sagun Raj Lage, Prakshapan Shrestha
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7042-4
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Sagun Raj Lage and Prakshapan Shrestha 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-7041-7Published: 11 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-7042-4Published: 10 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 145
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations
Topics: Apple and iOS