Re: WatchKit Baby Apps

2018-02-28 Thread Quincey Morris 
On Feb 28, 2018, at 11:36 , Charles Jenkins  wrote:
> 
> I wanted to develop my own timer and repetition counter

Given that this doesn’t sound like it’s going to be a store app (with IP 
ownership consequences), I would suggest submitting that entire project as a 
radar, with a problem description along the lines of “WatchKit sucks! See 
inside for details!”.

I know the bug reporter seems like a black hole, but I have some faith that if 
SW engineers can see an actual example of what sucked, they can see how they 
could give you a better environment to work in, or they can see how they need 
to do a better job of explaining how to do things like your task.

This probably wouldn't produce any immediate results, but it has some chance of 
affecting some future directions.

FWIW


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WatchKit Baby Apps

2018-02-28 Thread Charles Jenkins 
Marco Arment’s article at https://marco.org/2018/02/26/watchkit-baby-apps
describes how frustrating it is to develop for Apple Watch.

I hope Apple takes notice and improves this situation.

Last year I wanted to develop my own timer and repetition counter for my
workouts at the gym, but in the end it seemed impossible. I don’t know if
the situation has now changed, but at the time, there was no way to
programmatically set the real timer, and no way to set a label to act as a
timer--and convince the OS not to kill your app while it was counting down.
The best I could do for a timer was schedule a notification and hope it
worked. (Occasionally I have to reboot my phone and watch because
apparently they each think the other handled incoming notifications, so
neither triggers an alert.)

--

Charles
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