Very soon your favorite applications will be able to display dynamic content through widgets on the lock screen of iOS 16.
07/28/2022 10:22
The ios 16 lock screen It represents a great advance with respect to what we have seen so far in the Apple iPhone. It has many widgets, improved notifications and it is possible to customize more aspects than ever.
Among other functions, with the new iOS 16 the were presented Live Activities or live activities. Thanks to this feature, developers who wish to do so have the ability to create custom widgets for certain events that are dynamically updated and fixed on the phone’s lock screen. And, thanks to arrival of the ActivityKit API for developerssaid widgets are much closer to arriving.
Live Activity Widgets Now Available to Developers
As we mentioned, with the arrival of beta 4 of iOS 16, Apple has taken the opportunity to make a somewhat quieter new release: ActivityKit. In this case, it focuses on developers, and it is the first beta version of this API that will be so interesting.
Thanks to ActivityKit, developers can start creating live activity widgets for iOS 16
At the iOS 16 presentation itself that occurred during WWDC 2022, we saw various examples of how developers could take advantage of it at Live Activities of iOS 16. In particular, we saw a sample of how the ride an Uber carseeing in real time the information of the driver, the vehicle and the estimated waiting time, as well as a sports scoreboardwhich would be updated in real time.
Until now, despite the launch of the different beta versions of iOS 16, the truth is that developers did not have the opportunity to use this function in their applications. However, with the arrival of the first ActivityKit beta, any developer who wishes will have the possibility to use the new API to create your own live activities and incorporate them into your applications.
“With the ActivityKit framework, you can launch a Live Activity to share live updates from your app on the lock screen. For example, a sports application may allow the user to start a live activity for a live sports match. Live activity appears on the lock screen during the match and offers the latest game updates at a glance.”
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According to Apple, the live activities feature It will not be available to users when iOS 16 is officially released. to the public, or at least not in the first version. As ActivityKit is still in beta, it is understandable that they will have to carry out the corresponding tests before they can be released to the public, so it will probably come in an update later.
