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

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Steven Lipton

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… Continue Reading “Swift Watchkit: Headers Footers and More — Multiple Row Types in Apple Watch Tables”

Category: ios8, iOS9, WatchKitTags: Apple swift, Apple Watch, footer, groups, header, multi-row, Programming, row types, rows, rowtypes, setRowTypes, storyboard, sub, subheader, swift, tablerowcontroller, tables, Watchkit, WKTableInterface

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

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Steven Lipton

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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,… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit: Selecting, Deleting and Adding Rows in an Apple Watch Table”

Category: ios8, iOS9, Swift, Swift Programming, WatchKitTags: add, add rows, alert, Apple Watch, Buttons, delete, delete rows, glance, groups, insert, layout, menu, Notification, Programming Apple watch, remove, select, select rows, select table, Story Board, storyboard, swift, table, Watchkit

Swift Watchkit: Making ScrollViews and Static TableViews.

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Steven Lipton

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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… Continue Reading “Swift Watchkit: Making ScrollViews and Static TableViews.”

Category: Swift Programming, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, Buttons, glance, groups, layout, Notification, Programming Apple watch, scroll, scrollview, static table, Story Board, storyboard, swift, tableview, Watchkit

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

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Steven Lipton

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

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Steven Lipton

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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… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit: Working with Modal Views Part 2: Presenting Programmatically”

Category: ios8, Swift, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, awakeWithContext, Buttons, context, delegate, dismissController, glance, groups, layout, modal, Notification, presentController, programmatic presentation, Programming Apple watch, Story Board, storyboard, swift, Watchkit, watchkit delegate, WatchOS

Swift Watchkit: Working with Modal Views Part 1: Segue with a Delegate

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Steven Lipton

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Modal views on iPhones and ipads are used for input of information that requires attention. One of the on the Apple Watch is a modal view. You cannot mix a page-based interface with a hierarchical (i.e. navigation) interface as we learned in previous lessons.… Continue Reading “Swift Watchkit: Working with Modal Views Part 1: Segue with a Delegate”

Category: ios8, Swift, Swift Programming, Swift Swift, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, Buttons, glance, groups, layout, modal, modal delegates in swift, Notification, Programming Apple watch, Story Board, storyboard, swift, Watchkit

Swift WatchKit: Introducing Navigation to the Apple Watch(Part 3: Using Delegates and Contexts)

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Steven Lipton

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In our last lesson we set up navigation in the Storyboard and programmatically. We left off with passing data from one view controller to another using the context parameter like this: We made a context variable which we passed to the destination controller. We… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit: Introducing Navigation to the Apple Watch(Part 3: Using Delegates and Contexts)”

Category: GUI, ios8, Swift, Swift Swift, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, awakeWithContext, Buttons, context, delegate, glance, groups, layout, Notification, prepareforsegue, Programming Apple watch, pushControllerWithName, segue, Story Board, storyboard, swift, UIviewcontroller, view controllers, viewDidAppear, viewDidLoad, viewWillAppear, Watchkit, willActivate, WKInterfaceController

Swift WatchKit: Introducing Navigation to the Apple Watch(Part 2: Hierarchical Interfaces)

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Steven Lipton

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Apple WatchKit gives you a choice when it comes to navigation. You can be Page-based as we introduced in our last lesson. Another alternative, is hierarchical interfaces, which closely resemble navigation controllers on the phone. In this lesson, we’ll introduce the hierarchical type of… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit: Introducing Navigation to the Apple Watch(Part 2: Hierarchical Interfaces)”

Category: ios8, Swift Programming, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, Buttons, controllers, glance, groups, layout, navigation, Notification, Page, Page-based, programmatic, programmatic pages, Programming Apple watch, Story Board, storyboard, swift, swipe, Watchkit

Swift WatchKit: Introducing Navigation to the Apple Watch(Part 1: Page Interfaces)

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Steven Lipton

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The Simulator for WatchKit is the worst part of Xcode. It’s horribly buggy, and has one particular bug that freezes or kills your running app very often. I had a hard time figuring this out, but once I found one place that discussed it,… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit: Introducing Navigation to the Apple Watch(Part 1: Page Interfaces)”

Swift WatchKit: Using Images on an Apple Watch(Part 2: Code)

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Steven Lipton