Widget Examples

marco79 · September 28, 2020, 12:18pm

To test the stacks feature I built a Spotify Now Playing widget. It uses the more complex Spotify Authorization Code Flow which is needed to access a user‘s playback information. The widget automatically refreshes expired access tokens. I also built a Siri Shortcut to simplify the initial setup.

Gist and setup instructions:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/marco79cgn/79a6a265d978dc22cc2a12058b24e02b#gistcomment-3469230

spotify-now-playing.js

let spotifyCredentials
let widget = await createWidget()
Script.setWidget(widget)
Script.complete()

async function createWidget() {

    let widget = new ListWidget()
    let spotifyIcon = await getImage("spotify-icon.png")
    widget.backgroundColor = new Color("1e2040")

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Caveat:
Even though it’s been a lot of work this widget is more a proof of concept. It will lag behind since it‘s not possible to force an update of widgets and only iOS alone will decide when to refresh.