On iOS 17 you’ll be able to cook the perfect beans straight from your Lock Screen
@JustMeDevin Really hoping that by iOS 18 it’ll support things that aren’t beans too!
@brandonhorst I’m doubling down on the beans on iOS 18
@JustMeDevin very nice. Combine that with an always-on display and you have a winner.
@JustMeDevin One day your team will fail to impress me. Today is not that day.
@MuseumShuffle wait until I cook you beans.
@JustMeDevin I can only dream of such things.
@JustMeDevin how do you update timer when it’s done? Do you use lice activity stale state?
@iband it just runs to zero and then sends a seperate notification, as far as I know there still isn’t a way to trigger an update when it finishes
@JustMeDevin yeah, unfortunately we didn’t get timeline equivalent for live activities in iOS 17 😕
Apple engineers suggested using stale state to update live activities state at the end (e.g. for timer live activity), but there’s no way to play notification sound I guess.
@iband yeah, it’s a little restrictive, maybe next year!
@JustMeDevin I’ve filed radar, you should too. The more requests with different use cases (and real apps), the more likely we get it :)
@JustMeDevin how are you starting the live activity for the timer right from the main live activity? I thought that live activities can only be started when the app is in the foreground(?)
@luksape that was the case on iOS 16, but there is a special App Intent type now that lets you do it 😊 LiveActivityStartingIntent
@JustMeDevin wow, amazing! Thank you, I completely missed this. This will be very handy for interactive widgets too :).
@JustMeDevin Hang on, so you can start a Live Activity from a Live Activity? That... is something I never considered. Nicely done.
@codemonkey85 thanks! It’s very handy 😊