How to parse a service in Apple Watch in Swift?

Question

I am working on Swift and I am new to Apple Watch Programming. I am making a demo app in iOS i.e displaying images on feed. To display the images, I have to parse a service.

I know how to implement it for iPhone, but I don’t understand how to implement it for Apple Watch, and even I don't know that it is possible on Apple Watch or not???

If it is not possible then how should I show the data from a service in Apple Watch??

Is there any other way to display the data in Apple Watch?

Can any one explain me about this clearly, please...

Thanks in advance.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30511601/download-images-in-a-table-in-watch-kit-async — Vizllx, Feb 11 '16 at 07:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '16 at 01:58

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To consume web services on the Apple Watch you will need to use the NSURLSession API. You can also use an easy to use, popular framework called AFNetworking. This will make the requests and parse the data for you

answered Feb 12 '16 at 01:58

Kyle Redfearn

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Is it possible to use Alamofire?? – Ramakrishna Feb 12 '16 at 05:35
Yes. That is the same. the AF in AFNetworking stands for AlamoFire – Kyle Redfearn Feb 12 '16 at 05:59
Yes, you can use Alamofire on WatchKit. – Jeff Kelley Feb 12 '16 at 06:00
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I added watchKit as a target to my existing project and i use the statement "import Alamofire" in WAtchKit Extension InterfaceController.swift file. But it shows an error like no such module. – Ramakrishna Feb 12 '16 at 07:45
Any reference please. – Ramakrishna Feb 12 '16 at 07:46
Yes, its 3rd party, You are going to have to import it: https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking – Kyle Redfearn Feb 12 '16 at 07:48
@Ramakrishna I had the same problem with Alamofire for WatchOS. I simply solved it by doing the network stuff on the phone and communicating between them using `WatchConnectivity` – Luca D'Alberti Mar 15 '16 at 10:40
You must be doing something wrong. If you are using NSURLSession, API requests will work just fine – Kyle Redfearn Mar 15 '16 at 20:03
@Luca so you send the parsed data on the iPhone to iWatch by using WatchConnectivity.. – Ramakrishna Mar 16 '16 at 10:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 16 '16 at 10:10

I can't really explain why Alamofire is returning this error. It did the same for me. But it was better, since the WatchOS guidelines say that you can't do long operation on the watch since it's life could be short.

I built a bridge around WatchConnectivity where I send message and I reply with the response asynchronously. The only difference is that you need the app on the iPhone is running (not terminated, essentially)

How to parse a service in Apple Watch in Swift?

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