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Fundamentals:
Focuses on WidgetKit, SwiftUI.
SwiftUI & UI Frameworks / 20:20
WidgetKit foundations
SwiftUI & UI Frameworksiosipadosmacosvisionoswatchos
Key Points
- Widgets highlight an app most important content across the system, providing people with another opportunity to engage.
- Covers widget types and the qualities that make widgets memorable.
- Explains how to create widgets, keep them up to date, and offer ways for people to customize them through App Intents and dynamic styling.
- The session moves through Fundamentals, Integrate with an app, Adapt with the system.
- Key concepts include WidgetKit, App Intents, SwiftUI, UIKit, WidgetCenter, AppIntentConfigurations, DailyReadingGoalView.
- Platform coverage: ios, ipados, macos, visionos, watchos.
Condensed Flow
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Adapt with the system:
Focuses on SwiftUI.
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Additional details
- WidgetKit widgets should focus on glanceable, high-value content rather than reproducing the full app UI at a smaller size.
- SwiftUI supplies the widget view, while WidgetKit handles system placement across surfaces such as the Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, and watchOS.
- `WidgetCenter` is the mechanism for asking the system to refresh timelines when app data changes.
- `AppIntentConfiguration` lets widgets expose user customization without building a separate custom settings UI.
- Deep links or URLs should take people from a widget directly to the relevant app content, not just the app's home screen.