Configurable Widgets: iOS

We have created static widgets in the given article:

Widgets using SwiftData: iOS

Static widgets are widgets that the user can’t modify. For this example, we will create a widget where the user can select the photo from one of the many photos.

Let’s create Intent now.

Intent conforms to WidgetConfigurationIntent protocol. The parameter is what the user will configure while editing the widget. We will see how it works soon.

struct TestWidgetConfigurationIntent: WidgetConfigurationIntent {
    static var title: LocalizedStringResource = "Events"
    static var description: IntentDescription? = "Choose Events"
    
    @Parameter(title: "Events")
    var event: EventAppIntent
}

struct EventAppIntent: AppEntity {
    var id: String
    var event: Event
    
    static var typeDisplayRepresentation: TypeDisplayRepresentation = "Choose Event"
    static var defaultQuery = EventQuery()
    
    var displayRepresentation: DisplayRepresentation {
        DisplayRepresentation(title: "\(event.name)")
    }
}

EventQuery decides how the list is populated, the default item. Here, we can fetch data from API, SwiftData, CoreData, or something else. Since we are using SwiftData, we will see how to fetch data using that.