Category: WatchKit

• December 26, 2015

  A Runner’s Guide for the Apple Watch

  

  Not all runners are super high tech, though many of us all do want those new toys, like the Apple Watch. Christmas, Hanukkah, or whatever Solstice Holiday you happen to celebrate tends to bring them along to enjoy in a new running season. Some runners may not know how to use the Apple Watch effectively, […]
• August 26, 2015

  Swift WatchKit: Selecting With Multiple Rows in Apple Watch

  In the last lesson we created a multi-row table. However, we can only view the table, not select from the table. Multi-row tables provide some challenges with selection. Along the way, we’ll make a new interface to display selected information, using a technique we have not yet covered in this series: A dictionary as a […]
• August 20, 2015

  Swift Watchkit: Headers Footers and More — Multiple Row Types in Apple Watch Tables

  Some tables are boring. In our  multi-part look at the table view in Apple Watch, We’ve looked at tables with only one kind of row type. However, tables can be lot more than just one row. We might have a header row, or a footer row, we may have sub rows to do some grouping […]
• August 14, 2015

  Swift WatchKit: Selecting, Deleting and Adding Rows in an Apple Watch Table

  In our first part of this series, we made a simple dynamic table for the Apple Watch. Based on some pace data when I ran the Hot Chocolate 15K, we displayed the pace I ran at the mile splits. In a real running app, I would not want to add or delete any of my […]
• August 3, 2015

  Swift Watchkit: How to Add Simple Dynamic Tables to Apple Watch

  In the last post, we looked at scroll views and static tables. There are many instances where tables filled with data at runtime are necessary. If you are familiar with UITableViewController, you may be delighted to know that WKInterfaceTable is a lot simpler to put together: there are no delegate or data sources involved. It’s […]
• July 22, 2015

  Swift Watchkit: Making ScrollViews and Static TableViews.

  To state the obvious, The Apple Watch has very small  screen real estate. There are times we need more screen space than is available. In iOS, there are scroll views. One subclass of scroll views are the table views. Table views come in two flavors: static and dynamic. Dynamic reads data from a collection type […]
• July 8, 2015

  Swift Watchkit: Adding Context Menus

  Menus are cool. Since the first interactive program, there have been menus in applications. The Apple Watch is no exception, but has no space to put a menu. To solve this problem, Apple uses the new force touch gesture to pop open a menu. You can make your own menu, with customized icons and captions. […]
• June 18, 2015

  Swift WatchKit: Adding Text, Dictation, and Emoji Input to Apple Watch 

  Sometimes Apple gives away stuff you can get very happy about — like a chance to use voice dictation. If you have had a chance to play with an Apple Watch, the watch has a simple but great way to deal with text messages. If you get a text message, you can hit reply and […]
• June 15, 2015

  Swift Watchkit: Working With Modal Views Part 3: Modal Page Views

  Apple’s  documentation for WatchKit  is quite clear, even when it is lying. The documentation states you can have  hierarchical navigation or page navigation but not both. Here’s is where it lies:  you can have a page-based navigation as part of a hierarchical navigation scheme. There is a special modal view version of page views, which […]
• June 10, 2015

  Swift WatchKit: Working with Modal Views Part 2: Presenting Programmatically

  In the first part in this series we implemented a modal interface in WatchKit with a segue. In this part we’ll present the modal programmatically and once again set up a delegate and context for moving data between controllers. Open the project from the last lesson.  Press Command-N and add a new Cocoa Touch class  […]