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Published inFeb 2016
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ISBN-139781785887369
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Stuart Grimshaw
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Stuart Grimshaw has programmed for Apple computers since the days before OS X and has been involved with developing for the Apple Watch since its release. Born in the UK and having lived in Germany and the Netherlands, he is currently a Senior iOS developer in London, England, United Kingdom. He has around 10 years of end-to-end development of projects experience in, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS (Apple Watch), tvOS (AppleTV), and macOS. He is passionate about the potential of the Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as Apple's Swift programming language, and is a keen proponent of beach coding.
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WatchConnectivity


We have done this so often now, we can almost do it blind.

Create a new Swift file, making sure that the WatchKit target is selected, and name it WatchConnectivity.swift. Replace the import statement with the following code, most of which you have seen before:

Import WatchConnectivity

class WatchConnectivityManager: NSObject, WCSessionDelegate {

    static let sharedManager = WatchConnectivityManager()

    private override init() {
        super.init()
        if WCSession.isSupported() {
            let session = WCSession.defaultSession()
            session.delegate = self
            session.activateSession()
        }
    }

    func sendDataToWatch(data: AnyObject) {
        guard let contextData = data as? LocationSet else {return}

        let dataArray = contextDataFrom(locationSet: contextData)
        let context = [kApplicationContextDataKey: dataArray]
do {
            try WCSession.defaultSession().updateApplicationContext(context)
            print("updateApplicationContext...
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Stuart Grimshaw

Stuart Grimshaw has programmed for Apple computers since the days before OS X and has been involved with developing for the Apple Watch since its release. Born in the UK and having lived in Germany and the Netherlands, he is currently a Senior iOS developer in London, England, United Kingdom. He has around 10 years of end-to-end development of projects experience in, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS (Apple Watch), tvOS (AppleTV), and macOS. He is passionate about the potential of the Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as Apple's Swift programming language, and is a keen proponent of beach coding.
Read more about Stuart Grimshaw