Adventures in Swift and iOS App Development
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 types. In this lesson we'll explore these three types of navigation …
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 …
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 …
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 that information with you. Introducing WatchKit through MVC Understanding how to …
Continue reading "Swift WatchKit Tutorials — A Basic Watch Kit App"
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 2 of Chapter six of my Book Swift Swift: UI View …
Continue reading "Swift Swift: Split View Controllers (Round Two) Part 2: Master to Detail"
