April 2015 5
Tutorial: Building an Apple Watch App
The new Apple Watch is going to be released soon, we are going to take a little time to build a quick app that displays the North American time zones. This app will allow the user to swipe between the timezones so they can easily know what time it is anywhere in Canada and the […]
Tutorial: Building an Apple Watch Glance
A glance is a supplemental way for the user to view important information from your app. Not all apps need a glance. A glance provides immediately relevant information in a timely manner. For example, the glance for a calendar app might show information about the user’s next meeting, whereas the glance for an airline app […]
Tutorial: Building an Apple Watch Notification
Notifications on Apple Watch facilitate quick, lightweight interactions for local and remote notifications. These interactions occur in two stages, which are managed by the short-look and long-look interfaces. The short-look interface appears when a local or remote notification first arrives. A short look presents a discreet, minimal amount of information to the user—preserving a degree […]
Tutorial: Upgrading to Swift 1.2
Apple has just released it’s new and improved version of Swift. They have been listening to a lot of developer feedback and continue to make Swift better and easier to use. If you upgraded to the Xcode 6.3 and ran your project you’ll notice a lot of new errors, hopefully the details below will make […]
Tutorial: NSDate in Swift
NSDate objects represent a single point in time. NSDate is a class cluster; its single public superclass, NSDate, declares the programmatic interface for specific and relative time values. The objects you create using NSDate are referred to as date objects. NSDate is an abstract class that provides behavior for creating dates, comparing dates, representing dates, […]
