Heist Hub · Design page 6 · Home Screen widget and offline · 12 Nov 2026

A widget on the Home Screen, and the app without a connection

Decided, 12 Nov (Ryan): widget 01 Spotlight (“for the widget hub use spotlight. Its great.”), in small and medium. It is being built in the iPhone widget next. The offline proposal still waits for Ryan’s OK. Style and navigation are decided: 04 Night edition, 03 Hub of tiles. The phones use the app’s own stylesheet and our own art.

Apple asks an app to do things a website can’t (App Review 4.2), and after launch day there is no countdown to look at. A Home Screen widget gives people a reason to keep Heist Hub on their first screen: who is live right now, without opening anything. Tap it and Heist Hub opens on that stream. Each option below comes in the two sizes most people use, small and medium, and every phone plays the same story: the Home Screen, the widget updates to a stream that just went live, a tap, and Heist Hub opens on that stream’s sheet.

Pictures, never videoiOS widgets can’t play video or animate. They show a still picture and text. The live player is one tap away, in the app.

iOS decides when it refreshesUsually every 15 to 30 minutes, not live. So every widget says when it was updated (“as of 9:56”) and viewer counts are from then.

TapsA small widget has one tap target: the whole widget. A medium widget can have a few, so each row opens its own stream.

Our own artThumbnails are the stream’s own picture from Twitch, or our art when there isn’t one. Never Rockstar art.

Unofficial fan app. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. Every streamer, title and number here is invented sample content. The Home Screen icons are neutral stand-ins.