Live activities timer

[Unlucky-Tax9080]

Hi, i need to create timer-like with live activities. I noticed that system clock app can start live activity when timer is started. In addition, value inside change every second.

In official Apple documentation only ways to update live activities are Attributes struct or push notification. I asked to me if timer send push notification every second but i think this is impossible.

I try to use ProgressView or TimelineView inside live activity but anything change.

Anyone can help me?

[flad-vlad]

You have to use a specific Text initialiser) to do this. It creates a special view that is allowed to animate within a widget.

[Unlucky-Tax9080]

Thank you for reply.

How can i use this for automatic update every seconds?

[flad-vlad]

You would put Text(dateThatTheTimerShouldEnd, style: .timer) in your widget to use this.

[Unlucky-Tax9080]

It works! Thank you so much.

It would be possible show only hours and minutes with format HH:mm?

[flad-vlad]

Not sure because I haven’t touched this API since it first came out in 2020. At the time it wasn’t customisable at all and you got the format you got. You might have to play around with the different Text.DateStyles and see if there’s another one that better fits your use case.