10. Face Sharing

Written by Scott Grosch

While the ability to create and use complications has existed for years, being able to share the perfect watch face with your friends and customers is a newer feature. Most apps you develop will only have a single complication. Sometimes, however, you might provide multiple complications.

Consider the TideWatch app you built in previous chapters. When it makes sense to group multiple complications from your app or other apps, you can now offer a way for your customers to receive a preconfigured watch face easily.

Note: You’ll need a physical device to send a watch face from the iPhone to the Apple Watch.

Sharing Faces

There are four ways you can share a watch face:

1. Using the Watch app on your iOS device.
2. Directly from your watch.
3. Downloading a watchface file from the web.
4. Adding it via your custom iOS app.

From the iPhone

One of the simplest ways to share a watch face is by running the Watch app on your iPhone. When the app opens, you’ll see all of the watch faces you have currently configured:

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From the Apple Watch

It’s even easier to share from the Apple Watch. From the home screen, long-press the watch face and choose the share icon. Then select to whom you’d like to send the watch face:

From the Web

If you want to share multiple watch faces, you may wish to host them on your app’s website. Point your favorite browser to Apple’s Human Interface Guide (HIG). Scroll down to the Technologies section, and you’ll see a download available for Add Apple Watch Face. Download the file, which is a DMG, and then double-click it. You’ll see a window containing the developer license as well as an Assets folder.

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From the iOS App

You have one final option for providing a preconfigured watch face. You can embed the face right into your iOS app. The advantage of this approach is that the person using your app doesn’t have to transition to a website. You simply provide them some mechanism to send the face directly to the paired Apple Watch via one of the HIG buttons you downloaded.

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Setting Up the Session

In Chapter 4, “Watch Connectivity”, you learned about WCSession and WCSessionDelegate. To know whether an Apple Watch is paired to the iOS device, you’ll need the same type of session running. If there’s not a paired Apple Watch, then you wouldn’t want to provide the option to install a custom watch face.

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Showing the Share Button

Now open ContentView. Currently, you only show an image of the face which you’ll send to the watch. You need to include a download button, but only if there’s a paired Apple Watch.

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Key Points

• Only install a watch face if the user requests it.
• Don’t offer to install a watch face if there is no paired device.
• Anyone can create shareable watch faces, but only you can offer them from inside the app.

Where to Go From Here?

• The sample materials for this chapter contain a web folder that includes the full source to the sample webpage.
• Check out the amazing Watchfacely site for great examples of sharing faces via the web.
• Many sites on the web will generate QR codes for free, such as QR Code Generator.