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Apple Watch App Development

You're reading from   Apple Watch App Development Build real-world applications for the Apple Watch platform using the WatchKit framework and Swift 2.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785886362
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Steven F. Daniel Steven F. Daniel
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing the Swift Programming Language FREE CHAPTER 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

Configuring a category for our static interface controller


When working with notifications, each notification interface must be assigned a notification category that tells Apple Watch when to use it. If you remember, back in our PushNotificationPayload.apns file, within the aps dictionary object, we specified an ORDER_PLACED category string value within the payload that Apple Watch uses to determine which notification scenes to display within your Interface.storyboard file.

If Apple Watch determines that an incoming notification doesn't include a value for our category string, it will display the notification interface that is configured with the default category.

In this section, we will look at the steps involved in setting up a notification category for our notification interface controller:

  1. Select the Interface.storyboard file from the project navigation window.

  2. Next, choose Static Notification Interface Controller and click on the Show Attributes Inspector button.

  3. Next, click on the myCategory...

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