It’s been really interesting seeing how prominence for today widgets have changed over the past couple of years. First introduced in iOS 8, today widgets weren’t given a very high place of honor and were coupled with missed notifications within Notification Center. However, in iOS 10, emphasis on today widgets has drastically changed, completely taking …
Tag: iOS
WatchKit Tutorial: Communicate from Parent App Back to Watch via Reply
Note: this will be a continuation from my last tutorial on WatchKit – Send Data to your Parent iOS App. If you haven’t done it already, I suggest you start there first. WatchKit Updates It’s been about a month since my last WatchKit tutorial and we’ve had 2 new beta releases for iOS 8.2, including …
Easy iOS Device Projector Demos
I recently did a talk where I live demoed some OCR functionality that I built. Essentially, I had to show what was happening on my device screen while I took a picture of a piece of paper. The main issue with this for screen reflector apps is that the refresh rate isn’t nearly as fast as the …