iOS 14: Home Screen Widgets

[nickoneill]

Ideas coming out from WWDC 2020: we should add a widget or two. Open to more ideas for what we should display. I'll go into detail about one that I've thought of below:

Your Reps

Once users have a location set we have a cached set of your main reps (2 senators, 1 house rep) and it would be nice to give people a Rep Speed Dial widget on their home screen. Medium format, three circles with names and titles below. I'll do a little wireframe when I have a moment to describe it better.

[inuwali]

@nickoneill I'm contemplating taking this over and finishing it off. I'm starting by examining the existing code and if I decide to tackle it, I'll leave some more comments below.

[inuwali]

For starters, which minimum iOS version to envision 1.7 to target?

[nickoneill]

Thanks @inuwali, I think there's significant work that @subdigital has done here already, he may be open to help finishing it up though.

[nickoneill]

We currently support 11+ but there are only a handful of users on 11. I am open to dropping support for it if it's beneficial.

[inuwali]

Thanks! I've been in touch with Ben and he's fine to have me to take over. Should I work in a fork, or can you give me write access here?

Ben has definitely done quite a lot of work already; I don't think there's a ton left to do before a potential PR so you can check out the widgets and comment on design/content etc.

[nickoneill]

Awesome, added you as a contributor to this repo, feel free to work in your own fork or on a branch here.

[inuwali]

Thanks! I'll work on the existing branch.

[inuwali]

I think I need some team access in order to test on my device. Please advise. :-)

[nickoneill]

Shoot me an email (nick at 5calls.org) with your preferred email and I'll add you to the team in app store connect