Widgets on iOS

[DEFCON001]

Apple released a widgets feature in iOS 14, that allows the user to add widget to their home screen, its sort of like a mini version of the app showing some information and launch options of the app.

If podverse's app could integrate with these widgets, it could list the most recent downloaded podcast episodes, allowing the user to see the most recent podcast episodes and keep up to date without opening the app to check (it may also help with persistence and allow the app to download new episodes in the background), and easily open the app straight up to said episodes.

I really like the way that the open source app "BookPlayer" implements the widgets, so if you want to use that for inspiration (although its written in swift), here is the code I think it uses for widgets: https://github.com/TortugaPower/BookPlayer/tree/develop/BookPlayerWidgetUI

[mitchdowney]

@DEFCON001 thanks for idea. I actually have never heard of this before, and I have an iPhone 😬

I'd need some time to research and comment on this. It sounds like a pretty big feature. One of the first problems to solve is exactly how it should function and look. The "most recent downloaded podcast episodes list" sounds like a good start.

Realistically I won't have time to work on this until after we add Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support, and those will be a lot of work...

[DEFCON001]

Yea its not a rush, just a cool feature i've seen in a couple of other open source iOS apps, and thought might be cool for this project.