📲 Ever tried using iOS Live Activities in a Capacitor app?

Spoiler: It’s not fun.

There’s no built-in Capacitor support, no official plugin, and you can’t call ActivityKit from JavaScript.

In my app EggTimer, I wanted to trigger a Live Activity from JS when a countdown starts.

I didn’t want to rewrite the whole app in Swift — so I built a plugin.

👉 In this Medium article, I explain:

• Why Live Activities are tricky for web devs
• How I built a Capacitor plugin (capacitor-live-activity) to solve it
• What setup you still need to do in Xcode
• How the JS API looks and works
• A full working demo app (included)

🔗 Read the full article here:

📲 How to use iOS Live Activities in Capacitor Apps — Without Losing Your Mind | by Kisimedia.de | Jun, 2025 | Medium

Kisimedia.de ・ Jun 10, 2025 ・

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If you're building with Capacitor and want to try native features like Live Activities — this is for you.

Would love your feedback, questions or ideas 🙌

Plugin is open-source on GitHub: kisimediaDE/capacitor-live-activity