I wanted to have some dynamic web data in a widget on my home screen.
My first thought was to build a bespoke app for a specific rest api just for myself.
But wouldn't it be nicer to have an app that can take any URL and make it fit different types of widgets easily.
From JSON, XML, images - anything one could want to have a "realtime" dashboard on the phone.
First prototype already working 🥳
Would anyone else find something like this useful?
@zigadolar Yeah, that actually sounds cool. Like if Panic's Status Board and Widget Smith had a baby.
Might be cool to have it be a fuller dashboard-style app so that you can review metrics and reports, but making it really widget-forward would be awesome.
@bennomatic both of those I was thinking about before I started making it (I actually hoped Widgetsmith already supports this) 😅
I’m focusing on widgets (for now) - as it’s already tricky enough - a full blown in-app dashboard adds another level of complexity - though I do plan on the main screen having a nice layout of all the configured widgets “live” in one place in the app - to be able to glance at everything at once
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