Designing with constraints — Live Activity and Dynamic Island | by Sanyam Jain | Swiggy Design | Medium

Apple launched the Live Activity widget with iOS 14 and followed it up with Dynamic Island in iPhone 14 Pro. With these updates, Apple attempts to reinvent push notifications delivery on mobile devices. On it’s launch, it was instantly obvious that Swiggy, a food delivery app which sends multiple notifications to communicate delivery progress, has the perfect use case to utilise these new features. Fast forward to now, both are live for Swiggy users 🎉 We were awestruck by the Apple’s slick demo but as we dug deeper we realised that there’s more than what meets the eye. This blog is behind-the-scenes of how we went about designing the latest widgets for our users. Being a hyper-local food delivery app, post-order tracking is a critical part of users' journey. After a user places a food order, these are the following states that we communicate to keep them updated on the order’s progress: The above steps all take place within a span of 30 – 40 mins. And to keep the user informed we send

Apple launched the Live Activity widget with iOS 14 and followed it up with Dynamic Island in iPhone 14 Pro. With these updates, Apple attempts to reinvent push notifications delivery on mobile devices. On it’s launch, it was instantly obvious that Swiggy, a food delivery app which sends multiple notifications to communicate delivery progress, has the perfect use case to utilise these new features. Fast forward to now, both are live for Swiggy users 🎉 We were awestruck by the Apple’s slick demo but as we dug deeper we realised that there’s more than what meets the eye. This blog is behind-the