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I read in official documents that there is a height range of 84-160. But when I preview, it is always fixed at a certain height. What should I do to make the height of DynamicIslandExpandedRegion grow dynamically according to the content?
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Some users couldn't receive push notifications, and APNS returned a 'DeviceTokenNotForTopic' error. Upon validation using Apple's tool, I found that some tokens are identified as VoIP push tokens, and some as Live Activity (LA) push tokens. When attempting to send a normal alert push using these VoIP/LA push tokens, it didn't work and returned a 'DeviceTokenNotForTopic' error. These tokens were obtained from Apple's delegate function 'didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken.' It's unexpected to receive VoIP/LA push tokens from this event, but this issue is occurring, and I've observed it specifically in iOS 17 users. This problem is not universal and is happening only for some users. Please take note that our app support VoIP Push, Live Activity Push and Normal Push notification. Could this be an iOS 17 bug? Any advice on this matter would be appreciated. Thanks.
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In iOS 17.2+, we have a new feature that lets you use a push notification to start a Live Activity. The docs mention this: While the system starts the new Live Activity and wakes up your app, you receive the push token you use for updates. How exactly does this work? I don’t see any listeners/delegate methods that trigger when you receive a start event. Since I need to extract the push tokens from a specific instance, how do I get that instance? I can call Activity<MyType>.activities to see all running Live Activities, but assuming my end user has multiple instances running, how do I locate the instance that was started remotely?
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I've been trying to implement an animation for my live activity. The animation is just rotating an image back and forth a bit and offsetting it up and down a bit. It'll give an airplane icon a subtle effect of "flying". Similar to the waveform animation in Apple Music, ie it's there for a it of visual flair. The documentation here states that withAnimation is ignored so I'm not entirely sure how these "constantly animating" effects are achieved. It seems like animations can only occur as transitions between states but it seems like overkill for my use-case of just wanting to animate a tiny bit of UI. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
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Hello! Currently we are reviewing an issue whereby our users were obtaining Live Activities update, but somehow at the end, there were Live Activity updates that were not properly received by the device. For example: 20 Live Activity updates sent to device, 17 were properly received, however the last 3 were not properly received (as can be seen by the UI of it not updating). So far we have looked into a few root causes highlighted on the forums and on stackoverflow: Timestamp of APNS (every one of the APNS has a different timestamp) 200 is seen from the APNS side, which is why we were confused by the push notification did not arrive on the device side Looking into our logs, its unfortunately not covered enough to tell us when this had been received Some questions here: Is there a way we could log every Live Activity / Push Notification received from APNS? (for all scenario, app on lock screen, app in background) Anyway to track a push notification's lifecycle? I know the Push Notification Console tool is useful for debug usage, but we wanted to see if there's something similar for production usage as well.
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My live activity is working perfectly on iOS 16.4 simulator but when I run the same code on iOS 17 or 17.2, the live activity does not show up anymore. There are no errors thrown and it says that the live activity is active.
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We are using the below getPushToken() function to retrieve live activity token. However there are cases in production such that await activity.getPushToken() never finish. i.e. have logs of start event and no return or end event, the code path stuck at the guard statement. Do anyone face same issue and if can advise what can go wrong and how best to handle such cases? // log start event guard let pushToken = await activity.getPushToken(), !pushToken.isEmpty else { // log return event return } // log end event extension Activity { public func getPushToken() async -> String? { for await data in pushTokenUpdates { return data.map { String(format: "%02x", $0) }.joined() } return nil } }
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Hi, I've been looking through the documentation for Live Activities and Activity Kit but I can't seem to get the answer to my question through the documentation. I have 2 questions: Is it possible to have a button on the live activity that shows & hides a certain element on the live activity? Is it possible to update the background color of the live activity? Thanks in advance, Sasri Product Designer
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We are implementing new Live Activities in our app (we are a live shopping app). We also have PIP however i've noticed that when I start a live activity, then go into picture in picture, the dynamic island does not show the activity we've created for it. I can only see the activity on the lock screen widget while the audio for the videos plays. Is there any way to get the dynamic island to work with an app that is also in picture in picture? If there is and I'm doing something wrong, I can post some code. But from what I see, these don't seem to be compatible unfortunately :(
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struct NetworkImage: View { let url: URL? var body: some View { Group { if let url = url, let imageData = try? Data(contentsOf: url), let uiImage = UIImage(data: imageData) { Image(uiImage: uiImage) .resizable() } else { Image("league") } } } } NetworkImage(url: URL(string: context.attributes.imageGame)) .aspectRatio(contentMode: .fill) .frame(width: 35, height: 35) .clipShape(Circle())
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Hi everyone, I have two questions regarding some issues with the new iOS 17 interactive widgets and live activities. Question 1: How can I update other Widgets and/or Live Activities, based on an AppIntent interaction in either one? I have several widgets that is displaying the same information, but in different sizes (Small, Medium, Large and Lockscreen). Most of our users are using many of them together on their Lockscreen and Home Screen. When they are interacting with the AppIntent button in either the Widget og LiveActivity it does not update and vice-versa. Based on the documentation it's pretty clear that interacting with a Widget it will update the timeline for that specific widget after the .perform() in the AppIntent is returned. Unfortunately, I also need to update the LiveActivity and the other TimeLines for the rest of the widgets. I have tried to use the WidgetCenter.shared.reloadAllTimelines() but it seems like it does not update the LiveActivity or the LockScreen widgets correctly. Question 2: How can I update and reschedule the local notifications based on the interaction in the Widget and Live Activity? The app sends a local notification whenever an activity starts or stops (e.g like a pomodoro timer with intervals). Let's assume the user have setup a 30 minute activity in the app, but now decides to pause the activity from either the widget or live activity. I then want to remove the scheduled local notification that was supposed to be fired in 30 minutes. I haven't been able to read from the documentation if this is possible, but would like to know if there is any way this can be performed. Looking forward to hear if anyone have encountered the same challenges :)
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We are updating a Live Activity via push notifications quite frequently. As the documentation suggests, we are using NSSupportsLiveActivitiesFrequentUpdates for this case. We are sending all updates with apns-priority: 10. Is it still possible that iOS throttles push-updates with this setting enabled? For example we sent updates to APNS in this frequence: 2023-06-09T09:21:22.492224Z 2023-06-09T09:22:03.415876Z 2023-06-09T09:22:05.643268Z 2023-06-09T09:22:08.567353Z 2023-06-09T09:22:11.988442Z 2023-06-09T09:22:17.983494Z 2023-06-09T09:22:28.400757Z 2023-06-09T09:22:44.185622Z 2023-06-09T09:23:06.633058Z 2023-06-09T09:23:23.560052Z 2023-06-09T09:23:31.863625Z 2023-06-09T09:23:37.18351Z 2023-06-09T09:23:44.086319Z 2023-06-09T09:23:49.40655Z 2023-06-09T09:24:08.034848Z 2023-06-09T09:24:18.614194Z 2023-06-09T09:24:20.176428Z 2023-06-09T09:24:25.384654Z 2023-06-09T09:25:03.103147Z 2023-06-09T09:25:15.433726Z 2023-06-09T09:25:21.171693Z 2023-06-09T09:25:23.262028Z 2023-06-09T09:25:28.241116Z 2023-06-09T09:25:30.19816Z 2023-06-09T09:25:32.440543Z 2023-06-09T09:25:42.381815Z 2023-06-09T09:25:50.581656Z 2023-06-09T09:25:55.659846Z 2023-06-09T09:26:15.042667Z 2023-06-09T09:26:26.924626Z 2023-06-09T09:26:28.608762Z 2023-06-09T09:26:32.012874Z 2023-06-09T09:26:39.111211Z 2023-06-09T09:26:40.415326Z 2023-06-09T09:26:51.142985Z 2023-06-09T09:26:54.364073Z 2023-06-09T09:27:04.225692Z 2023-06-09T09:27:30.80347Z 2023-06-09T09:27:33.560981Z 2023-06-09T09:27:42.334313Z 2023-06-09T09:27:43.834646Z All of those were sent successfully, but at some point the activity stopped updating. The activity continued for several hours after, but was never updated again. What I checked so far: From device logs we can see that there was no updated push-token The sent content-state is correct From these observations and considering the high-frequent updates, I suspect that there is still some throttling happening here. Can anyone elaborate on this? Thanks in advance.
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In this link, there is a description of live activity push token update: "The push token for a Live Activity may change throughout its duration. When your app receives a new token, it receives foreground runtime to process the updated token. Keep track of the push token for each Live Activity. Additionally, invalidate an outdated token on your server when you receive an updated token to successfully send subsequent updates." Our application did implement the solution to prepare for push token update. But so far, we don't see any occurrence of push token update from our backend records. The pushtokenupdates sequence only return the token once after live activity starts and does not emit more value afterward. Could you share a bit more on the condition for push token update? Under what circumstances will this happen? Thank you!
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When I try to initiate a Live Activity using the iOS 16.2 API for it, which includes the staleDate, when the staleDate has passed, rather than transitioning my Live Activity to its special ended state, the Live Activity presumably crashes because it looks disabled with a loading spinner on top My ActivityAttributes struct is fairly simple, and the code that displays the "ended" state is itself not crashing, so unsure if I am doing something wrong Here is the code for my ActivityAttributes: struct TimerActivityAttributes: ActivityAttributes { enum TimerType: Codable { case rest, work } public struct ContentState: Codable & Hashable { var isEnded: Bool } let endDate: Date let exerciseName: String? let timerType: TimerType init(endDate: Date, exerciseName: String? = nil, timerType: TimerType = .rest) { self.endDate = endDate self.exerciseName = exerciseName self.timerType = timerType } } Here is the code that activates the Live Activity: private func startLiveActivityNew( attributes: TimerActivityAttributes, contentState: TimerActivityAttributes.ContentState ) { guard let endDate else { return } let activityContent = ActivityContent(state: contentState, staleDate: endDate) do { ActivityManager.shared.activity = try Activity.request( attributes: attributes, content: activityContent ) } catch (let error) { print("Caught an error: \(error.localizedDescription)") } } Here is the code I use to determine whether to display the ended state (to maintain compatibility with iOS 16.1): private func isEnded(context: ActivityViewContext<TimerActivityAttributes>) -> Bool { if #available(iOS 16.2, *) { if context.state.isEnded || context.isStale { return true } } else if context.state.isEnded { return true } return false } And this is what happens after staleDate has passed. I'm just not sure if I'm missing anything in my implementation
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Hey there, I have noticed that my Live Activity's minimal presentation sometimes gets cut off when there is another app's Live Activity present. I tried adjusting the view in a number of ways, but it always seems to get cut off I'm just curious if this is a known issue with iOS 17, or if there is a potential workaround. This issue did not occur on iOS 16, and I've even updated to iOS 17.1 and the issue is still present. The view code is identical Here's the code that goes inside my minimal presentation ProgressView(timerInterval: Date.now...context.attributes.endDate, countsDown: true) { EmptyView() } currentValueLabel: { EmptyView() } .tint(.accent) And here is what ends up happening. I've also seen this with some of Apple's own Live Activities, so I'm assuming this is an iOS bug?
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