Widget

[samuelclay]

Now that we have action buttons (#4), let's make a widget!

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ios/extensions/widgets/

If possible, have it mirror the app (4 modes, 4 buttons) and allow switching between the four apps (3 apps if we're in 12 button mode).

[samuelclay]

If there's no interaction allowed, then display all four apps with 4 diamonds one above the other?

[Dejal]

Should be fun (and useful). Interaction should be allowed, e.g. PCalc's widget supports tapping buttons to perform calculations. May need a bit of refactoring to support accessing and performing actions from an extension, though.

[Dejal]

I have added a new widget branch with the current work-in-progress on the widget.

It isn't finished yet, but the widget is available, and the Phone and Music modes are functional. Other modes will follow in the future. For now, unsupported modes are replaced with the Phone one.

If you want to try it, note that you'll need to set your developer team in the Widget Extension target in the project. The Dejal app and widget targets are ones I can build, since I don't have access to your personal developer account.

Here's a screenshot of the collapsed appearance (a bit tight):

And the expanded appearance:

[samuelclay]

Screenshots looking great and show lots of promise.

I'm having trouble getting the widget to show up in notification center. I changed the app group to the one I registered online, changed the team, and compiled just fine, but no widget. It's being embedded (and not signed) but it's not showing up for some reason. Any ideas?

[Dejal]

You shouldn't have had to change the app group, though may have needed to click the reload button below it. Though maybe you would have needed to, if linked to the developer account; I'm not sure.

If you changed the app group name from group.com.turntouch.ios-remote, some code will need to be correspondingly changed.

Here are what my signing settings look like for the Dejal targets, if that helps; the app:

The widget:

Note that the widget won't show up by default; you have to scroll to the bottom of the widgets and click Edit, and add the widget.

[samuelclay]

Yeah I changed both of those app groups to the one I already had registered (group.com.turntouch.appgroup). And I've been checking the bottom of the Edit screen.