Tag: layout

• October 31, 2018

  Layout iPad Landscape and Multitasking Apps

  

  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 for portrait and landscape. For all phones, if I have a…
• September 18, 2017

  This Old App: Update to Xcode 9

  

  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 only for straight runs but for the run/walk/run community who use multiple-speed…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 …
• June 3, 2015

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

  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. You can use modal interfaces with either.  In this series of…
• May 27, 2015

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

  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 haven’t done anything yet with the value of the context. In…
• May 22, 2015

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

  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 navigation by setting up a small app. Hierarchy Controllers Pages are…
• May 20, 2015

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

  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, the number of people with the same issue surprised me. Apparently…