Adding User Interface Elements

If you select the watch app target’s scheme in Xcode (by clicking HelloWatch in the toolbar and selecting HelloWatch WatchKit App, or selecting Product → Scheme → HelloWatch WatchKit App) and then you build and run (by pressing ⌘R), you’ll be greeted with a mostly blank Apple Watch screen with the time in the upper-right corner and nothing else. Congratulations: your first watch app is up and running! Now, let’s make it do something. You’ll add a button and a label to this screen; tapping the button will change the title of the label. Head to the watch app’s storyboard file in Xcode. If you don’t see it, open the Project Navigator by pressing ⌘1 and expanding the HelloWatch WatchKit App group; ...

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