Widget (Cross-process) Support

[FahadBuilds]

I experimented a bit with SQLiteData, and correct me if i'm wrong, but seems that there is no way to access the database from widgets (other processes) in the same app group. That's one of the biggest reasons that is stopping me from switching from SwiftData.

[mbrandonw]

Hi @FahadBuilds, this is more of a general problem with SQLite databases and not directly related to this library.

And while it can be tricky to share data in a SQLite database across processes/containers, there are tricks to make it work in some sense (see end of the linked article).

And while it may seem that SwiftData handles this seamlessly, I'm also quite curious 1) how they accomplished it, and 2) is it really 100% full proof. After all, they do use a SQLite database under the hood, and so it subject to the same problems that any SQLite database has.

[FahadBuilds]

Yeah, that’s fair. I don’t actually know how SwiftData handles this under the hood.

Hopefully someone can chime in and clarify how SwiftData approaches cross-process access, especially with widgets.