Posted on May 5, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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Goodbye Emoticons! Up to this point in our lessons for programming Apple Watch we’ve used emoticons for graphics. It’s time to introduce true images to our WatchKit apps. There are two ways to use graphics. We’ll discuss adding images to Buttons, Groups, and Interface… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit: Using Images on an Apple Watch (Part 1: Storyboard)”
Category: GUI, ios8, Swift Programming, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, button, Buttons, glance, groups, icons, image, layout, Notification, photos, Programming Apple watch, proportional buttons, proportional sizing, scaling, slider, Story Board, storyboard, swift, Watchkit
Posted on May 3, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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For those who have worked a bit with auto layout, there are two topics that seems to be a real challenge: using a custom UIView, especially when using Core Graphics , and displaying photos either in the foreground or as a background. Both suffer… Continue Reading “Swift Swift: Making Background Images, Small Images and Custom UIViews with Autolayout”
Category: Auto Layout and Size Classes, Core Graphics, GUI, ios8, Swift Swift, TutorialTags: aspect fill, aspect ratio, aspect ratio constraint, Auto Layout, auto layout background, auto re-size photo, auto rotation, autorotation, Core Graphics, launch screen, launch screen photo, launchscreen.xib, photos, swift, Swift Programming Language, UIImage autolayout