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 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 ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
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, 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 ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com