Widgets followed the dashboard's trip only, which is the one under way, so a
packing list or to-dos for a trip still being planned could not sit on the
home screen. The trip, today, bookings, to-dos, packing and group widgets now
take a trip in Edit Widget (an AppIntent with the trips running or ahead,
Automatic by default, which keeps following the dashboard); the world map
needs none.
- The app writes a snapshot per trip running or ahead (at most six, the
dashboard's order) and the list to pick from, under their own keys
(feature widgetTrips, so an older binary never mistakes one for the
dashboard's); bags, chat and polls are kept ten minutes, covers per trip
- The widget extension targets iOS 17, which configurable widgets need; the
apps are not released, so no installed widget goes away
- The choices and their texts in the 28 languages of the gallery
- Packing: a ring of what is in the bags, each bag against its weight limit,
the items still missing in their bag's colour, a nudge when departure is
two days or less away
- World map: the world as dots from the Atlas country shapes
(WorldGrid.swift, generated by WidgetPreviews/make-world-grid.py), the
visited countries glowing, the latest one ringed, continents as bars and
the latest countries with their flags; it needs no trip
- Travel group: who comes along as avatars, the latest chat messages as
bubbles and the open poll with its votes as bars
- The to-dos widget is about to-dos only; the packing ring moved out
The app sends the bags, the Atlas countries (an hour's cache) and the chat
and poll with the snapshot; all optional, as before.
- Names and descriptions of the four widgets in TREKWidgets/<lang>.lproj for
the 28 languages the app speaks, linted with the other property lists
- The preview renderer draws a cover photo state too, and the lock-screen
accessories as the system does, without a box of their own
- The large trip and today widgets put the stops right under the day and the
next booking at their foot instead of an empty middle; the large to-dos
widget names its two rings with their counts
- The trip and day for a travel day as a Live Activity: a progress ring, the
next stop large, the stops as segments, the Dynamic Island in the same green
- The place shows with a location arrow, and rows link through RowLink, which
the preview renderer draws without the Link it cannot render
Four widgets instead of one plain text block, drawn in the phone tokens
(warm paper by day, near black by night) with contour lines and a route arc
as the travel motif:
- Trip (small, medium, large, lock screen): the cover photo, a countdown ring
and a plane on its arc before the trip; the day of the trip as segments,
the weather and the next stops on frosted glass while it runs
- Today (medium, large): the day as a timeline in its category colours, with
a now line, the day's progress and the weather
- Bookings (small, medium, large, lock screen): flights, trains, hotels and
tables ahead as coloured tiles, the next one featured, status dots
- To-dos (small, medium, large, lock screen): to-dos and packing as nested
rings, the most pressing open to-dos with priority and due dates
The app now sends the destination, a small cover JPEG, the weather where the
trip is, the bookings ahead, the open to-dos and the packing count; every
new field is optional on both sides, so older binaries and servers keep
working. Timelines step every quarter hour so the now line moves without
the app. client/ios/WidgetPreviews renders every widget in every size, light
and dark, on the CI's Mac, uploaded as the widget-previews artifact.
A WidgetKit extension (TREKWidgets) with two parts: the next trip on the home
screen, with a countdown before it starts and today's day and next stops
while it runs, and a Live Activity for the travel day on the lock screen and
in the Dynamic Island showing the next timed stop and the day's progress.
The web app builds both from the trips stored offline on the device
(native/widgets.ts) and hands them over through TrekShell
(setWidgetSnapshot, syncTripDay, endTripDay). The texts are already
translated, so the widget needs no localisation of its own. The snapshot
lives in the keychain group the app shares with its extensions, so no App
Group is needed. Taps open com.liketrek.trek://navigate/<path>.
NativeWidgetsSync refreshes on start, on returning to the foreground and every
quarter hour. Both parts are gated behind the widgets / liveActivity
capabilities, so older binaries and the PWA are unaffected.
Maurice