[tags:wwdc20-10028]

Sometimes widget UI does not refresh immediately even if you call reloadAllTimelines and takes 2-3 minutes to reflect that change in UI in gallery and home screen, is it known bug or anything i'm missing which i'm not sure of atm

Hi there, If the Widget we are developing uses activity data from the Apple Watch via HealthKit, e.g. Active Energy, how can our App read up to date data from Healthkit when it is in the background. And if so how often does the widget refresh. As an experiment I’ve been looking at the Apple Activity widget provided in the ios14 beta, but it out of sync with the Apple Watch activity data over more than a 15 minute duration. I.e the widget had not updated for at least 15 minutes even though the Apple Watch Activity data is constantly updating. many thanks Tim

Classically, the demo in the Meet WidgetKit video used a Calendar as an example, where clearly the times to update are simple to calculate based on when the users events will occur. I'd like to know about the Activity/Fitness Widget. There's no way to tell when a user will burn that next calorie and as far as I can tell, there's still no background observer in HealthKit you can use to call an update on changes. So, with that in mind, how often should I call to update? This same dilemma applies to ClockKit and WatchOS complications.

Hello, is it possible to configure our widgets with a background like the inbuilt system battery widget? It looks like it's using a UIVisualEffectView as it's background which looks fantastic against the user's background. Especially as it transitions for dark mode. I've been through all the docs and designing for WidgetKit but can't figure out how to have anything but a fully opaque background. Setting the background to transparent on my SwiftUI view results in white showing as the background. Thanks, Greg

Hi, I'm trying to Display a MapView like the sytem Maps app does in a Widget. I thought the best way would be to encapsulate the Mapview in a UIViewRepresentable like this: struct MapView: UIViewRepresentable { func makeUIView(context: UIViewRepresentableContext<MapView>) -> MKMapView { let mapView = MKMapView() return mapView } func updateUIView(_ view: MKMapView, context: UIViewRepresentableContext<MapView>) { } } And show it like this in my Widget: struct MapWidgetEntryView : View { var entry: Provider.Entry var body: some View { VStack { MapView() } } } Unfortunately this leads to this error: RemoteHumanReadableError: The operation couldn’t be completed. (BSServiceConnectionErrorDomain error 3.) BSServiceConnectionErrorDomain (3): ==BSErrorCodeDescription: OperationFailed I also tested this with other UIKit classes and it leads to the same error

WidgetKit looks great, I love that it's SwiftUI and lightweight. I'm just trying to see if I understood everything correctly by using an example: Widgets are not mini apps, but really freeze-dried SwiftUI view hierarchies that are then thawed out by the system as needed. That being the case, a developer could not build a countdown or timer widget that would show a label with the current, accurate-to-the-second value of the countdown or timer, correct? While I could imagine that to be a real-world use-case, I do understand that the home screen should not have a lot of things animating and moving, but to be calm.