
Learn to build iOS 15 widgets with WidgetKit and SwiftUI 3, delivering glanceable, configurable widgets with timelines, deep links, and dark mode across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Explore building seven end-to-end widgets in iOS 15 with WidgetKit and SwiftUI 3, including static, date, quotes from JSON API, weather, graphs, resource sharing, and configurable expense widgets.
Learn how to create a hello world widget with WidgetKit in SwiftUI, add a widget target, implement a timeline provider and entry, and preview on the home screen.
Build a date-time calendar widget with a timeline-based update flow in WidgetKit, including a timeline provider, entry view, and a widget bundle that supports multiple widgets in one app.
Fetch a random quote from an API using a WidgetKit widget, decode JSON into a quote model, and update a home-screen widget with a timeline-driven display.
Build a weather widget in iOS 15 using SwiftUI and WidgetKit that adapts to small, medium, and large widget families, with a weather service, models, and icons.
Learn to share app resources across an iOS 15 SwiftUI 3 widget using WidgetKit by reusing a rain data model and graph view to build a rain pattern widget.
Pass data from your app to a widget using app groups, share a container, and refresh widget timelines to reflect the latest reminders.
Learn to build user configurable widgets in iOS using intent configuration, categories, and a configurable expense widget with a timeline provider in WidgetKit and SwiftUI.
Apple in WWDC 20 introduced a new and cool extension to your apps in form of WidgetKit. iOS 15 and SwiftUI 3 added more horsepower to the framework. With app widget you can provide useful information about your app directly to your user's home screen. With this course you will learn all about widgets and what they have to offer.
We will build various widgets of varying complexity in this course and learn about widgets while building them from start to finish.
Join us in this journey and learn all about iOS widget kit. You will learn simple widgets to configurable widgets. You will build real weather app widget which will download the weather information from API and display that in small, medium and large size widgets.
You will also work with Timelines and learn to schedule widget updates to display dynamic content on app widgets.
According to Apple widgetkit is:
Easily build widgets and make them available across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS using the WidgetKit framework and the new widget API for SwiftUI. Widgets now come in multiple sizes, and users can visit the new widget gallery to search, preview sizes, and place them anywhere on the Home screen to access important details at a glance. They can also add Smart Stacks — sets of widgets that use on-device intelligence to surface the right widget at the right moment, based on factors like time, location, and activity.