Onto part 3 of my Watch Connectivity series. We’ll be looking at the transferFile API today – in particular, we’ll be transferring an image from the watch to the phone, but the same API can be used to transfer data and other media files. This will likely be the last of the watch connectivity series …
Category: watchOS
watchOS 2 Tutorial: Using application context to transfer data (Watch Connectivity #2)
Here’s part 2 of my Watch Connectivity tutorial series. We’ll be looking at using the application context option to transfer data between the Apple Watch and your iPhone. For anyone that needs a refresher on the different options to transfer data with Watch Connectivity, you can refer to my earlier post. A note before we …
WatchOS 2 Tutorial: Animations Using Groups
One of the most delightful videos of WWDC ’15 was the Layout and Animation Techniques for WatchKit. While not nearly as noteworthy as the new frameworks introduced, the new support for animations shows some much-needed progress allowing developers to make watch user experiences as delightful as in iOS apps. They showed a variety of techniques, …
watchOS 2 Tutorial: Using sendMessage for Instantaneous Data Transfer (Watch Connectivity #1)
I wrote about the many ways that you can communicate between the Apple Watch and your iPhone app a couple of weeks ago for watchOS 2. Over the next month, I’ll be releasing a series of deep dives on the different ways of communicating using the Watch Connectivity framework. These will be various tutorial projects …
watchOS 2: How to communicate between devices using Watch Connectivity
If you haven’t heard by now, there’s been some great news – we finally can create native apps for the Apple Watch! Yay! As great as that is, it now means that there are some changes to how we communicate between devices for WatchOS 2. I’ll do a run through of the different types now, but …