Category: WatchKit

• April 17, 2015

  Swift WatchKit Tutorials: Programming Buttons, Switches and Timers for Apple Watch

  Once you start connecting outlets and actions for an Apple Watch you realize this is not your friendly neighborhood iOS app. There are controls that look familiar in storyboard, but are far from the same in code.  In this lesson, you’ll learn about the familiar button and switch from iOS in a WatchKit setting, where […]
• April 16, 2015

  Swift WatchKit Tutorials: Using Groups in WatchKit

  WatchKit is not UIKit.  How you program for Apple watch differs greatly from how you program a iPhone or iPad. There are controls that look familiar, but act very differently.  In this lesson you’ll learn about  groups, a layout mechanism which is, but should not be, compared to subviews. We’ll also introduce glances and notifications, […]
• April 12, 2015

  Swift WatchKit Tutorials — A Basic Watch Kit App

  Like a lot of people I ordered my Apple watch on April 10th, and now have to wait until June for it to arrive. I’m excited about the possibilities of the watch. I’m excited about writing applications for the watch, and I’m excited about sharing that information with you. Introducing WatchKit through MVC Understanding how to […]