Tag: layout
Posted on October 31, 2018
by Steven Lipton
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Note:You can find a video of this tip here on LinkedIn Learning If there’s one thing in auto layout that drives me nuts it is laying out for landscape different than portrait on an iPad. Phones are easy since the class sizes are different…
Category: Auto Layout and Size Classes, GUI, ios12, LinkedIn Learning / Lynda.com, Swift Programming, Tutorial, Xcode 10Tags: autolayout, autolayout programmatically, ios, iPad, landscape, layout, observers, portrait, property observers, rotation, swift
Posted on September 18, 2017
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A few months ago, Apple threw out my app Interval Runcalc for being too old. While it wasn’t the most innovative, complex or profitable, it was an app I used frequently myself. It was a calculator for time, pace and distance for running not…
Category: Auto Layout and Size Classes, iOS 11, This Old App, Xcode 9Tags: @objc, App Programming, Apple swift, Auto Layout, ios11, iPhone Programming, iPhone X, layout, swift, Updating, Xcode 9
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,…
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
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…
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
Posted on June 15, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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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….
Category: ios8, Swift, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, Buttons, glance, groups, layout, modal, modal controller, modal interface, modal view, Notification, Page, page controller, page interface, page view, Programming Apple watch, Story Board, storyboard, swift, Watchkit
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…
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
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….
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
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…
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
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…
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
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,…
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
