"Live activities" for mobile apps #52
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Problem statement
Some activities happening in Home Assistant, like a ongoing timer or dishwasher routine, could be better represented to the user through a live activity (in iOS, and similar approach in Android), currently it is only possible to display it's progress through a standard push notification and updating it's content.
Scope & Boundaries
In scope
- Refactor push notifications in core to accomplish the required steps so the user does not need to configure such a feature using yaml.
- Define static templates that the app aims to support, such as "Progress" (to display event progress such as a dishwasher running), "Quick actions" (the user could decide that they want to display 4 buttons as a live activity whenever they are in the supermarket), and others, these as just examples.
Not in scope
- Fully customizable live activity UI.
- Although this would be nice, this brings more complexity on the way the user configures this in Home Assistant and how the app handles that configuration in each platform, this could be a future iteration.
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Most upvoted feature request for iOS
https://github.com/orgs/home-assistant/discussions/84
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