How to show Alert on Apple Watch

Question

How to show Alert on apple watch. Is there any alternate to show alerts in the Apple Watch because I checked and UIAlertView is not working on Apple Watch.

Answer 1

With watchOS2

With watchOS2 you can use the WKAlertAction method:

+ (instancetype nonnull)actionWithTitle:(NSString * nonnull)title
                                 style:(WKAlertActionStyle)style
                               handler:(WKAlertActionHandler nonnull)handler

With watchOS1

If you don't mind losing the feature of an UIAlertView of seeing the content behind, you can:

1 - Create an ErrorInterfaceController (with or without an ok button)

2 - Set the identifier to "ErrorInterfaceController"

3 - Present that error with:

[self presentControllerWithName:@"ErrorInterfaceController" 
                        context:@{@"title" : @"yourTitle",
                                  @"text"  : @"yourText"}];

4 - In your ErrorInterfaceController.m you can set your title and text with the context.

Note that your ErrorInterfaceController can have a title that is empty and the ok button can dismiss it or you can leave the way it is with a default "Done".

This is the simplest solution to present a message.

If you want something more complex you need to remember that WatchKit doesn't have a z-index and you can't add elements dynamically by code. Therefore, you need to have a solution that uses UIImages rendered in your app extension and sending them to the WatchKit.