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Image created by ChatGPT. I have recently been working on an app (Pay Day: Earnings Time Tracker) that includes a lot of widgets that show different types of data, but very quickly I came across a problem. The standard way of passing data to a widget uses PreferencesGlanceStateDefinition to manage the state. The way of […]
Hey Everyone, Just wanted to announce the latest update to my Free and Open Source “MC Status” iOS App. The fastest way to check the status of a Minecraft server from your phone/mac/watch. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mc-status-widget-for-minecraft/id1408215245 This 2.0 update has been over a year in the making, and is a total rewrite of the app from scratch. […]
Microsoft and Apple have teamed up to introduce Recent File widgets to the Mac, meaning you can open recent Office files with a single click. In June this year, Microsoft rolled out a Recent File widget for the Microsoft 365 app on iPhone and iPad before adding widgets for the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint standalone […]
If you haven’t looked into Glance theming, it is pretty easy to set up. It is just the same as Material Design 3 theming where you can provide a custom set of colors to style your widget to match your app branding. In this basic set up, we have the app color scheme lightScheme and […]