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Published inFeb 2016
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ISBN-139781785887369
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Stuart Grimshaw
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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Getting user input


So far, we have had very little input from the user. She has launched the app and pressed a button, but the Watch is good for more than just presenting information. While the size of the screen makes some forms of input impractical, and text input via a keyboard must be top of that list, there are still many user input methods, both old and new at our disposal.

WatchKit's text input controller is a very simple way to gather text input (as the name might suggest) using the presentTextInputControllerWithSuggestions method provided by WKInterfaceController. When making this method call, you provide a list of text options from which the user may make a selection (she may also cancel, or choose voice input).

Firstly, we want to modify changeBorderColor() to accept a String argument which will tell it what color the user has selected. Replace the function as it stands with the following:

    func changeBorderColor(colorString: String) {
        let newColor: UIColor
        
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Building Apple Watch Projects
Published in: Feb 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785887369

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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