Widget
Asked on 08/12/2024
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Widgets were a significant topic at WWDC 2024, with several sessions discussing their new features and capabilities. Here are some highlights:
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Interactive Widgets: Widgets can now be interactive, allowing users to perform actions directly from the widget without opening the app. This includes buttons and toggles that can execute actions, such as locking a door from a home widget on watchOS 11. This feature is supported across all watchOS widget families, although the shape and size of some widgets may limit the number of interactions.
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Configurable Widgets: In the session "Bring your app’s core features to users with App Intents," it was discussed how widgets can be made configurable. For example, a trail conditions widget can be set up to show different trails by configuring a trail parameter.
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Accessory Widget Group: A new view template API called Accessory Widget Group was introduced in watchOS 11. This allows for creating a view in an accessory rectangular widget with up to three different pieces of content, enhancing glanceability and interactivity.
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Relevant Widgets: The system can now suggest widgets to users at the right time, making the smart stack more actionable and intelligent.
For more detailed information, you can refer to the sessions:
These sessions provide insights into how to implement and enhance widgets using the latest APIs and features introduced at WWDC 2024.
Bring your app’s core features to users with App Intents
Learn the principles of the App Intents framework, like intents, entities, and queries, and how you can harness them to expose your app’s most important functionality right where people need it most. Find out how to build deep integration between your app and the many system features built on top of App Intents, including Siri, controls and widgets, Apple Pencil, Shortcuts, the Action button, and more. Get tips on how to build your App Intents integrations efficiently to create the best experiences in every surface while still sharing code and core functionality.
What’s new in watchOS 11
Explore new opportunities on Apple Watch, including bringing Double Tap support to your watchOS app, making your Smart Stack widgets even more relevant and interactive, and displaying your iOS Live Activities in the Smart Stack.
Dive deep into volumes and immersive spaces
Discover powerful new ways to customize volumes and immersive spaces in visionOS. Learn to fine-tune how volumes resize and respond to people moving around them. Make volumes and immersive spaces interact through the power of coordinate conversions. Find out how to make your app react when people adjust immersion with the Digital Crown, and use a surrounding effect to dynamically customize the passthrough tint in your immersive space experience.