--- title: "Developing Live Activities in SwiftUI Apps" url: https://daily.dev/posts/developing-live-activities-in-swiftui-apps-8qahwe5w3 source_url: https://www.appcoda.com/live-activities/ type: article source: "Appcoda" published: 2025-08-25T09:59:39.096Z updated: 2025-08-25T10:00:06.369Z tags: ["ios", "swiftui"] reading_time: 10 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Developing Live Activities in SwiftUI Apps **[Appcoda](https://daily.dev/sources/appcoda)** · 10 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Live Activities in iOS 16+ allow apps to display real-time information on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island without requiring users to reopen the app. This tutorial demonstrates implementing Live Activities in SwiftUI by building a Water Tracker app that shows progress updates. The implementation involves creating a widget extension, defining ActivityAttributes for data structure, building the Live Activity view for different display contexts, and managing the activity lifecycle through a dedicated manager class. The tutorial covers the complete setup from UI design to enabling Live Activities in Info.plist. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ios](https://daily.dev/tags/ios), [#swiftui](https://daily.dev/tags/swiftui) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/developing-live-activities-in-swiftui-apps-8qahwe5w3)