Training and Instructional Design
Posted on March 4, 2016 by Steven Lipton
It’s rare to have a one controller application, even in something as small as the Apple watch. Multiple View Controllers, or Interface Controllers as they are called in WatchKit, need ways to move between controllers. WatchOS2 has a simplified version of the iOS navigation… Continue Reading “Using WatchOS2 Navigation in Swift”
Posted on May 22, 2015 by Steven Lipton
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
Posted on May 20, 2015 by Steven Lipton
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)”
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 April 12, 2015 by Steven Lipton
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… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit Tutorials — A Basic Watch Kit App”
Category: GUI, ios8, Swift Programming, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, button, date, date object, emoji, hello world, hierarchy, interface controller, label, model view controller, MVC, navigation, navigation controller, NSdateformatter, position, segue, swift, timer, Watchkit
Posted on March 31, 2015 by Steven Lipton
Back in July of 2014, I wrote one of this first posts on Split views, I said I would write another post on the subject. I ended up making this a section in chapter six of my Book I ended up making this section… Continue Reading “Swift Swift: Split View Controllers (Round Two) Part 2: Master to Detail”
Category: GUI, ios8, Swift SwiftTags: color for table view, detail master, master-detail template, navigation, Split View, Split view controllers, swift
If you are making your own stuff, doing your own work and trying to sell it in the market, most advice isn't enough. You want it to work. You want to sell your works to those who most are touched by them. This newsletter is for you. I am one of those people like you, creative, independent and maybe a little bit crazy to the outside world. I'll talk about writing good apps for Apple platforms, the tools and API's to get there. Along the way I will show you how to become you best creative self. I will show you how to build and create, and make some money at it too.
Get exclusive content, new post notifications, tips and more in A Slice of App Pie.
This site may include links that provide monetary compensation to the owners of this site.