MAUI Widget Support/ Widget Kit would be nice

[dannydel]

Hello! My team and I have been using Maui Hybrid to build our an Android and iOS app. So far we have really enjoyed the experience especially being able to use Blazor. I was recently tasked with finding out the viability of building widgets for both the platforms(possibly At a Glance for Android and Live Activities for iOS). We are thinking making something like what Grubhub or Uber has that shows live updates either on the Lock Screen or Home Screen.

So far there hasn't been much success. I have found older articles, threads, and GitHub's of people trying to do this for Android but so far none of them work like a reactive widget. I was able to get a widget onto the home screen but anytime the update handler gets triggered to update the UI it attempts but never does. (Usually no error just runs the code without results)

And for iOS it looks like you can do this but only after running .Net 9 and run the preview Xcode generation tool and then writing it in swift.

Is there any possibility of us getting actual cross platform widget support or at least a UI/SDK package for each platform to do so from Maui?

If you have any other documentation or examples of people actually making active/ reactive widgets in Maui please feel free to share!