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Fix Stack View Disasters
Posted on February 20, 2019 by Steven Lipton
Learn how to take a disaster of nested stack views and untangle it into a great user interface.
Swift WatchKit: Selecting, Deleting and Adding Rows in an Apple Watch Table
Posted on August 14, 2015 by Steven Lipton
In our first part of this series, we made a simple dynamic table for the Apple Watch. Based on some pace data when I ran the Hot Chocolate 15K, we displayed the pace I ran at the mile splits. In a real running app,…
Category: ios8, iOS9, Swift, Swift Programming, WatchKitTags: add, add rows, alert, Apple Watch, Buttons, delete, delete rows, glance, groups, insert, layout, menu, Notification, Programming Apple watch, remove, select, select rows, select table, Story Board, storyboard, swift, table, Watchkit
Swift Watchkit: Making ScrollViews and Static TableViews.
Posted on July 22, 2015 by Steven Lipton
To state the obvious, The Apple Watch has very small screen real estate. There are times we need more screen space than is available. In iOS, there are scroll views. One subclass of scroll views are the table views. Table views come in two…
Category: Swift Programming, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, Buttons, glance, groups, layout, Notification, Programming Apple watch, scroll, scrollview, static table, Story Board, storyboard, swift, tableview, Watchkit
Swift Watchkit: Working With Modal Views Part 3: Modal Page Views
Posted on June 15, 2015 by Steven Lipton
Apple’s documentation for WatchKit is quite clear, even when it is lying. The documentation states you can have hierarchical navigation or page navigation but not both. Here’s is where it lies: you can have a page-based navigation as part of a hierarchical navigation scheme….
Category: ios8, Swift, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, Buttons, glance, groups, layout, modal, modal controller, modal interface, modal view, Notification, Page, page controller, page interface, page view, Programming Apple watch, Story Board, storyboard, swift, Watchkit
Swift WatchKit: Working with Modal Views Part 2: Presenting Programmatically
Posted on June 10, 2015 by Steven Lipton
In the first part in this series we implemented a modal interface in WatchKit with a segue. In this part we’ll present the modal programmatically and once again set up a delegate and context for moving data between controllers. Open the project from the…
Category: ios8, Swift, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, awakeWithContext, Buttons, context, delegate, dismissController, glance, groups, layout, modal, Notification, presentController, programmatic presentation, Programming Apple watch, Story Board, storyboard, swift, Watchkit, watchkit delegate, WatchOS
Swift Watchkit: Working with Modal Views Part 1: Segue with a Delegate
Posted on June 3, 2015 by Steven Lipton
Modal views on iPhones and ipads are used for input of information that requires attention. One of the on the Apple Watch is a modal view. You cannot mix a page-based interface with a hierarchical (i.e. navigation) interface as we learned in previous lessons….
Category: ios8, Swift, Swift Programming, Swift Swift, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, Buttons, glance, groups, layout, modal, modal delegates in swift, Notification, Programming Apple watch, Story Board, storyboard, swift, Watchkit
Swift WatchKit: Introducing Navigation to the Apple Watch(Part 4: Dismissals and Segues)
Posted on May 29, 2015 by Steven Lipton
In our lessons setting up navigation controllers on the Apple Watch, we’ve learned how to set up the storyboard, how to use push controllers programmatically and introduced sending data to another controller and back using contexts and delegates. In this lesson, we’ll pass data…
Category: GUI, ios8, Swift Programming, Tutorial, Uncategorized, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, awakeWithContext, button, contextForsegueWithIdentifier, popController, popToRootController, popViewControllerAnimated, Programming Apple watch, pushControllerWithName, segue, Story Board, storyboard, swift, UIviewcontroller, view controllers, Watchkit, WKInterfaceController
Swift WatchKit: Introducing Navigation to the Apple Watch(Part 3: Using Delegates and Contexts)
Posted on May 27, 2015 by Steven Lipton
In our last lesson we set up navigation in the Storyboard and programmatically. We left off with passing data from one view controller to another using the context parameter like this: We made a context variable which we passed to the destination controller. We…
Category: GUI, ios8, Swift, Swift Swift, Tutorial, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, awakeWithContext, Buttons, context, delegate, glance, groups, layout, Notification, prepareforsegue, Programming Apple watch, pushControllerWithName, segue, Story Board, storyboard, swift, UIviewcontroller, view controllers, viewDidAppear, viewDidLoad, viewWillAppear, Watchkit, willActivate, WKInterfaceController
Swift WatchKit: Introducing Navigation to the Apple Watch(Part 2: Hierarchical Interfaces)
Posted on May 22, 2015 by Steven Lipton
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…
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
Swift WatchKit: Introducing Navigation to the Apple Watch(Part 1: Page Interfaces)
Posted on May 20, 2015 by Steven Lipton
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,…
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
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