Re: WatchKit Baby Apps

Lots of people complain that Apple doesn’t listen to submitted bug reports, but they do, and as I was reading my emails today on my iPad, I’m reminded of two of mine that were answered, movement of the button for loading email images from the bottom of emails to the top, and adding an

Re: WatchKit Baby Apps

Well, let me modify something I just said. If you’re writing an app to show how many days until you reach retirement, WKInterfaceTimer is just the thing to use. It’s not completely useless—it just doesn’t help with the thing you really want, which is notification that the wait is over. On Fri,

Re: WatchKit Baby Apps

The things you are describing are paths I already followed to dead ends. WKInterfaceTimer is truly and completely bogus. It just shows a countdown/count-up UI label while the app is onscreen. You have to pair it with an NSTimer set to count down to the same time in to make your program react in

Re: WatchKit Baby Apps

Creating a WatchKit app with Timers should be fairly easy. There’s a nice interface object called WKInterfaceTimer which should do the trick - at least for the UI interface. Here’s a link to the documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/watchkit/wkinterfacetimer

Re: WatchKit Baby Apps

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

WatchKit Baby Apps

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