More @timery experiments! I wanted some visual feedback that the widget is starting or stopping a time entry when a button is pressed since the action could take a couple seconds.

Widget interactions are through Buttons or Toggles, and Toggles update their state immediately while the action happens and then again when it’s finished.

So I changed what were Buttons to Toggles. And now while the widget performs the action, the start or stop icon swaps to a loading icon and then back. Much better!

iOS 17 beta 2 enabled another fun thing for interactive widgets: starting Live Activities! So starting a time entry from a @timery widget will also start a Live Activity!

And speaking of Live Activities, since they’re part of WidgetKit, they gain interactivity too. So the stop button can stop the time entry without having to open the app!

Had another idea for interactive @timery widgets! In the app, you can select a report item to filter the report and see time tracked for that project, tag, day, etc.

Can that work in widgets too? Yes, yes it can!

So it’s like changing the widget configuration without actually changing it to get a quick look at time tracked details. Hooray interactive widgets!

Another bit of @timery widget interactivity!

Have you ever wanted to show more timers in a widget than can actually fit? Currently you’d have to make a stack of multiple widgets each with a set of timers.

But what about having *multiple pages of timers* in a single widget? Now that’s possible!

With this additional interactivity, the @timery Dashboard widget now has *four* bits of interactivity:
• Stop the current time entry
• Page through saved timers or recent timers
• Start a new current time entry
• Show time-tracked details

All without having to open the app!

I’m super excited about interactive widgets and am really looking forward to bringing all this to the app soon!