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Jane Smith

@superjane.bsky.social

🎉🍁🍄 The #Fall #ActivityKit is here! It's #free, it's printable & it's all yours when u subscribe 2 the Super Readers Club #newsletter on Substack!
• Halloween #ReadingBingo
• Fall #ColoringPage
• #DrawingPrompt
• Sports Matching
• Story Starter Prompt
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September 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Robert Herber

@robert.herber.me

Another day - another Nitro Module! Just released @kingstinct/react-native-activity-kit to control Live Activities on iOS! Enjoy 👉 github.com/kingstinct/r... 🚀 #reactnative #expo #nitromodules #activitykit #liveactivities

GitHub - kingstinct/react-native-activity-kit: React Native Bindings for ActivityKit

React Native Bindings for ActivityKit. Contribute to kingstinct/react-native-activity-kit development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

August 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM

Pasi Salenius

@pasi.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy

It’s surprisingly difficult getting a Live Activity showing the status of a process that does not itself support ActivityKit. I’m relying on observing status changes but who knows if my app target is there to receive them. VPN extension connection status updates are also funky.

May 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM

Pasi Salenius

@pasi.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy

So ActivityKit is not available to Network Extension processes but UserNotifications is. Is there some logic here that I’m not seeing?

May 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Felipe Espinoza

@fespinozacast.bsky.social

@seanallen.bsky.social you can check my video Design and develop Live Activities with ActivityKit for iOS 18
youtu.be/mu9LlmUYC9E and promote it on swift news if you think it’s worth sharing :D

Design and develop Live Activities with ActivityKit for iOS 18

YouTube video by Crafting Swift

youtu.be

April 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM

Jane Smith

@superjane.bsky.social

🎉 New Super Readers Club drops MON & u don’t wanna miss it! It’s FULL of #springtime #fun:

😺 NEW #Kitty&Cat #Comic
💐 NEW Spring #ActivityKit
🍀 St. Patrick’s Day Activities
🎙 #Interview w/ illustrator @niseemade.bsky.social
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March 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM

Chris, The 0.5x Engineer

@llcoolchris.dev

Nope, as I don’t need this feature. From what I’ve read, it looks like it’s doable with ActivityKit APNs. And this is requiring you to obtain a push token from ActivityKit, which expo-notification pkg cannot do!

February 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM

Jane Smith

@superjane.bsky.social

🎉 NEW #SuperReadersClub #newsletter dropped TODAY + it's FULL of #winter fun:

😺 NEW #KittyandCat #comic
❄ WINTER #ActivityKit
🍪 DRAW-ALONG video
🎙 INTERVIEW w/ #authorillustrator Daniel J. Mahoney

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#edusky #TLsky #kidlit #freeprintables #kidsactivities

December 10, 2024 at 1:01 AM

Felipe Espinoza

@fespinozacast.bsky.social

We had a hackathon in SATS where I set myself to learn how live activities work.

Then I made a video about live activities starting with design, implementation, usage in code and usage with push notifications

#iOS #LiveActivities #ActivityKit #Youtube

youtu.be/mu9LlmUYC9E

Design and develop Live Activities with ActivityKit for iOS 18

YouTube video by Crafting Swift

youtu.be

December 9, 2024 at 10:30 PM

Jane Smith

@superjane.bsky.social

🎉 Happy 4th #bookbirthday to #HELLONEWHOUSE! This heartfelt #picturebook covers handling #bigchange —#movinghouse— while highlighting that ❤️ continues unchanged. #kidlit To celebrate:
📚 READ the book at home or library!
🖍 ENJOY the #freeprintable #activitykit!
😍 www.superjane.com/new-hello-new-house