Tag: Programming Apple watch
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
In our last lesson we did the layout for a watch app that included images. However, we did not yet code those images. In this lesson we’ll add the code to the application to change a button background and show images. If you have… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit: Using Images on an Apple Watch(Part 2: Code)”
Category: ios8, Swift Programming, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, Buttons, coding images, glance, groups, image, layout, lesson, Notification, Programming Apple watch, setBackground, setImage, Story Board, storyboard, swift, Tutorial, UIImage, UIImage(named:), Watchkit, xcassets
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 April 26, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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In the last few lessons, we’ve covered some of the controls a developer can use in an Apple Watch app. As we’ve learned, we do not have full access to the properties of the controls. Instead, we have a few attributes we can only… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit: Programming Sliders on the Apple Watch”
Posted on April 20, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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There is a horrible secret in WatchKit with many implications for those programming for the Apple watch. There is also a secret many people do not get about Apple’s corporate address. There two secrets are interestingly related. In WatchKit, There are no properties in… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit Tutorial: Coding Timers and NSTimer on Apple Watch”
Category: ios8, Swift, Swift Programming, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, Buttons, glance, groups, layout, Notification, NStimer, Programming Apple watch, Story Board, storyboard, swift, timers, Watchkit, working countdown timer
Posted on April 17, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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Once you start connecting outlets and actions for an Apple Watch you realize this is not your friendly neighborhood iOS app. There are controls that look familiar in storyboard, but are far from the same in code. In this lesson, you’ll learn about the… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit Tutorials: Programming Buttons, Switches and Timers for Apple Watch”
Category: ios8, Swift Programming, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, Buttons, groups, layout, Programming Apple watch, Story Board, storyboard, swift, switch, timer, Watchkit, WKInterface, WKInterfaceButton, WKInterfaceTimer
Posted on April 16, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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WatchKit is not UIKit. How you program for Apple watch differs greatly from how you program a iPhone or iPad. There are controls that look familiar, but act very differently. In this lesson you’ll learn about groups, a layout mechanism which is, but should… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit Tutorials: Using Groups in WatchKit”
Category: GUI, Swift Programming, Tutorial, Uncategorized, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, Buttons, glance, groups, layout, Notification, Programming Apple watch, Story Board, storyboard, swift, Watchkit
