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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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47.4 Widget Entry View

The widget entry view is simply a SwiftUI View declaration containing the layout to be displayed by the widget. Conditional logic (for example if or switch statements based on the widgetFamily environment property) can be used to present different layouts subject to the prevailing size family.

With the exception of tapping to open the corresponding app, widgets are non-interactive. As such, the entry view will typically consist of display-only views (in other words no buttons, sliders or toggles).

When WidgetKit creates an instance of the entry view, it passes it a widget timeline entry containing the data to be displayed on the views that make up the layout. The following view declaration is designed to display city name and temperature values:

struct SimpleWidgetEntryView : View {

    var entry: Provider.Entry

 

    var body: some View {

        VStack...

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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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