Tag: programmatic

• March 4, 2016

  Using WatchOS2 Navigation in Swift

  

  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…
• 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…