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# Live Activities

Let people track updates from your app with Live Activities.

## Discussion

Live Activities display up-to-date content from your app, such as event and task information on the Lock Screen or in the Dynamic Island.
Additionally, Live Activities appear in CarPlay and on a paired Apple Watch or Mac.
To create Live Activities, you use WidgetKit together with <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/ActivityKit>.

## Topics

### Essentials

[Developing a WidgetKit strategy](/documentation/WidgetKit/Developing-a-WidgetKit-strategy)

Explore features, tasks, related frameworks, and constraints as you make a plan to implement widgets, controls, watch complications, and Live Activities.

[Creating a widget extension](/documentation/WidgetKit/Creating-a-Widget-Extension)

Display your app’s content in a convenient, informative widget on various devices.

### Live Activity setup

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/ActivityKit/displaying-live-data-with-live-activities>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/ActivityKit>

[Creating a widget extension](/documentation/WidgetKit/Creating-a-Widget-Extension)

Display your app’s content in a convenient, informative widget on various devices.

[Emoji Rangers: Supporting Live Activities, interactivity, and animations](/documentation/WidgetKit/emoji-rangers-supporting-live-activities-interactivity-and-animations)

Offer Live Activities, controls, animate data updates, and add interactivity to widgets.

[`ActivityConfiguration`](/documentation/WidgetKit/ActivityConfiguration)

An object that describes the content of a Live Activity.

[`DynamicIsland`](/documentation/WidgetKit/DynamicIsland)

The layout and configuration for a Live Activity that appears in the Dynamic Island.

[`NSUserActivityTypeLiveActivity`](/documentation/WidgetKit/NSUserActivityTypeLiveActivity)

A string that the system passes to the app on launch from a Live Activity that doesn’t provide
a URL.

[`ActivityPreviewViewKind`](/documentation/WidgetKit/ActivityPreviewViewKind)

Values that represent Live Activity presentations for use in Xcode previews.

[`ActivityFamily`](/documentation/WidgetKit/ActivityFamily)

A family that defines the Live Activity’s size.


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