Posted on March 4, 2016
by Steven Lipton
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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”
Category: GUI, ios8, iOS9, Swift, Swift Programming, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, awakeWithContext, contextForsegueWithIdentifier, modal, navigation, pages, presentControllerWithName, presentControllerWithNames, programmatic, pushControllerWithName, WatchOS, WatchOS2, WatchOS2.2, WatchOS2.3
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
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)”
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
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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
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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”
