Create Image Widgets in Xcode: Learn to Create Cool Widgets with Random Images for iOS

Software widgets are relatively simple and easy-to-use software applications or components made for one or more different software platforms. Popular examples of widgets include event countdowns, website visitors counter, clocks, daily weather report, etc.

Lots of people can build a widget for iOS. But few can integrate them with an image downloader and show the downloaded image in the widget with custom intervals.

This video will show how you can build very simple iOS widget in Xcode. The widget will have big image, front and center. Then on custom intervals, the widget will update the image with a new random one. Images will be stored on an online location so the widget will have to download them and show them one by one.

• The basics of iOS widgets
• Image downloading
• Basics of SwiftUI
• How to update the widget with custom functions

People with more advanced skills in Xcode and Swift are targeted, but the video will be useful for total beginners as well.