Building Dynamic Island for Video Streaming App
Introduction I was curious about how to add Dynamic Island and implement it into a Video Streaming App. Here are a few steps on how you can achieve this. Caveats Debugging Dynamic Island can be a bit tricky; it only works when the main app is running. If you try to run it separately, you will encounter the error SendProcessControlEvent:toPid: encountered an error: Error Domain=com.apple.dt.deviceprocesscontrolservice Code=8 "Failed to show Widget". The solution is to configure live activities and run them through the main app. Be aware that when you add a widget to the project, in some cases, it adds all main target files to Compile Sources. Implementation Dynamic Islands are divided into different sizes: minimal, compactTrailing, compactLeading, and expanded. Before proceeding, you need to add LiveActivityManager to be able to display Dynamic Islands. ...