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Apple Watch App Development

You're reading from  Apple Watch App Development

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785886362
Pages 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Steven F. Daniel Steven F. Daniel
Profile icon Steven F. Daniel

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Apple Watch App Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
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Preface
1. Introducing the Swift Programming Language 2. Understanding Apple Watch 3. Exploring WatchKit Controls 4. Using the Core Location and Watch Connectivity Frameworks 5. Navigating Around in WatchKit 6. Implementing Tables within Your App 7. Adding Menus to Your App 8. Incorporating the Glance Interface in Your App 9. Incorporating Notifications within Your App 10. Image Compression and Animation 11. Packaging and Deploying Your App Index

Displaying information within your glance controller


In the last section, we modified our interface controller class so that it can store information within our NSUserDefaults class and display the chosen shopping list product information within the Apple Watch glance interface controller.

In this section, we need to create the necessary code that will be responsible for retrieving information stored within our standardUserDefaults repository database and display the chosen shopping list product item within our glance. Perform the following steps:

  1. Open the GlanceInterfaceController.swift file located within the ShoppingList WatchKit Extension group in the project navigation window.

  2. Next, locate the willActivate method and enter the following code snippet:

    override func willActivate() {
            // This method is called when watch view controller 
            // is about to be visible to user
            super.willActivate()
            
            let userDefaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
      ...
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