It felt like I blinked & now the project is almost done!
In this lesson, we add a watchOS target to the app. I add mine to Spotz
I had some hiccups here.
Section 1 was fine, where we add the target
Section 2, where we link the files from iOS to watchOS, I had an error.
The Embedded Binary Certificate for the watch app was not in sync with the iOS app, as a result Xcode refused to build. Following the suggestion from the linked StackOverflow page helped me solve it.
The next issue was one of my own design 😅
‘Command CompileAssetCatalog failed with a nonzero exit code’
I had imported an image asset too large to be the icon (App icons should only be 1024×1024, this one was 1200×1200). In the past I don’t ever remember this being an issue, but lately Xcode is evolving and things that used to work before do not work today. Fixed the icon size, pressed CTRL-B & all went green.

Read up on how Label() & Text() differ. With Text, we just post that- text. A Label is a bit more robust as it will also post text, and also give an image. That’s pretty 😎

My challenge with the images from earlier came back to bite me again. The images did not render correctly, so I added a .scaleEffect modifier that took CGSize as a parameter. I set the CGSize to 0.7 width & height, that made the final product look better.

When I started updating beyond this screen, it looked worse 😅
I tried tinkering with .scaleEffect but the result made the image smaller, not the actual frame.
I dove down to CircleImage and reduced the frame from 250 to 200. It is not everything I want but it is better than earlier.

Moving forward, I had more challenges with sizing in this lesson, design is not my strength 😅
My solution is to shrink the frame, or wrap it in a ScrollView, and keep it moving 😤

The last part, they had us mock User Notification to go through the watch simulator. That was inspiring- in a way getting my feet wet in a framework that has been described to me as ‘challenging’. Well today I tinkered with it and received a good result.