Here’s a free tool called Bezel that allows you to project WatchKit apps running in the simulator into a WatchKit styled app so you can get a better idea of how your apps will look on the Apple Watch complete with Bezel.
Bezel uses an artists rendering of he Apple Watch, and can use other watch frames with some extra images provided.
Be sure to go through the readme included with Bezel for further tips on simulating WatchKit apps.
Described as Obective-C without the C, Swift was released by Apple in 2014 and was met with mixed reactions. To existing Objective-C developers it’s a “who needs it?”, while to the millions who have struggled learning Objective-C it’s a breath of fresh air. Here I present a few cases to show why I feel that Swift as a programming language is superior to Objective-C.
To support a fancy new language, nifty realtime IDE features and impressive cross-language interoperability, Apple had to develop several new underlying tools. Here, we’ll focus on SourceKit, Xcode’s under-appreciated sidekick.
Here’s a nice command line tool submitted by Krause for working with providing profiles allowing you to avoid going through the menus in Xcode in case you need to download or repair a provisioning profile called Sigh.
practicalswift.com – a practical exploration of Apple’s Swift programming language
With the iOS 8 SDK Apple has delivered a much simpler API for creating UIAlertView’s and UIActionSheet’s, but if you’re looking to support iOS 7 you can’t use the new clean and simple syntax of UIAlertController.
Here’s an open source project from Peter Steinberger that bring backwards compatibility to the iOS 8 UIAlertController API with PSTAlertController.
Deploy screenshots, app metadata and app updates to the App Store using just one command.
Updating your iOS app should not be painful and time consuming. Automate the whole process to start with Continuous Deployment.
Deliver can upload ipa files, app screenshots and more to the iTunes Connect backend, which means, you can deploy new iPhone app updates just by using one command.
Get a head start preparing for the Apple Watch by prototyping the look of your app!
With the initial release of the WatchKit SDK expected later this month, it’s not too early to start thinking about apps you might want to work on.
How can you add a small-screen component to your own apps? And what kinds of new apps can you think of that really take advantage of the watch and all its features?
We know we won’t get WatchKit until later this month, and won’t see any actual hardware until 2015, but what if you want to start preparing in advance?
For as long has the iPhone has existed, location services have been front and center. Maps.app was one of the killer features that launched with the original iPhone. The Core Location API has existed in public form since the first public iPhone OS SDK. With each release of iOS, Apple has steadily added new features to the framework, like background location services, geocoding, and iBeacons.
iOS 8 continues that inexorable march of progress. Like many other aspects of the latest update, Core Location has been shaken up, with changes designed both to enable developers to build new kinds of things they couldn’t before and to help maintain user privacy. Specifically, iOS 8 brings three major sets of changes to the Core Location framework: more granular permissions, indoor positioning, and visit monitoring.
Here’s another nice open source project called Deliver from Krause providing a ruby based tool that simplifies updating your iOS apps by automatically uploading ipa files, screenshots and more to iTunes connect.