First Look at Expo Widgets: iOS Widgets Without Native Code @SoftwareMansion

Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Widgets have always been one of the unexplored areas of React Native – until now. 👀

In this video, Alek and Kuba from the Expo SDK team share a first look at expo-widget – a new package that lets you build iOS widgets and Live Activities using Expo UI components.

The package we’re talking about: https://docs.expo.dev/versions/v55.0.0/sdk/widgets
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