Getting Started with WidgetKit : Create Widgets for iOS and iPadOS / by Sagun Raj Lage, Prakshapan Shrestha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lage, Sagun Raj, author.

Shrestha, Prakshapan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apple computers.

Apple and iOS.

Local Subjects:

Apple and iOS.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 145 p. 38 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2021.

Summary:

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. You will: 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 .

Contents:

Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with WidgetKit in a Flash

Chapter 2: SwiftUI, Human Interface Guidelines and Widget Family

Chapter 3: Writing Your First Widget

Chapter 4: Making Widgets Configurable and Interactive

Chapter 5: Fetching Configuration Options for Configurable Widgets.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781484270424

1484270428

OCLC:

1250511186