watchOS 4: Frontmost App State
There was certainly a trend to some of the new versions of operating systems coming out this year at WWDC. Like macOS High Sierra (which I still can't believe is ...
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watchOS 3 Key Takeaways from WWDC16 (Part 1)
Wow! What a week. I'm really excited about all the new developments in watchOS this year. It's now becoming the platform we all wished we had in the beginning - ...
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watchOS 3 Key Takeaways from WWDC16 (Part 2)
Here's a continuation of key takeaways for various watchOS 3 sessions from WWDC16. If you haven't read part 1, check it out here. Architecting for Performance on watchOS 3 My ...
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ClockKit Deep Dive: Text Providers (ClockKit #2)
One of my favorite parts of ClockKit are the new text providers (CLKTextProvider) that they've added to the framework. These text providers help you display text in Apple Watch complications in ...
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ClockKit Tutorial: Add complication to an already existing watch project (ClockKit #1)
I'm happy to announce that I'll be starting a new series of posts looking into different topics in ClockKit. For those of you who are unfamiliar, ClockKit is a new ...
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watchOS 2 Tutorial: Transferring images using transferFile (Watch Connectivity #3)
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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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WatchKit: Best practices for sharing data between your Watch and iOS app
The Apple Watch is here! I'm looking forward to finally doing some development on the actual device. In the meantime, I've been getting a lot of comments and questions about ...
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WatchKit tutorial: Maps on the Apple Watch
We finally have a release date for the Apple Watch! I'm looking forward to building apps with the actual device, but for now the simulator will just have to do. There's ...
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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 ...
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WatchKit Tutorial: Send data to parent iOS app
WatchKit beta 2 was just released as a part of the iOS 8.2 developer seed. One of the best new additions to the SDK is the ability to communicate back to ...
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