Wild question from someone who has never written an watchOS app, or done any work using shortcuts: is there a way to display some kind of button or link on an Apple Watch, via some mechanism which will let it tell pythonista to run a script on the phone?
Just curious if anything like this is possible with the current Pythonista.
@shinyformica I don't have an Apple Watch thus I don't know how to build that but IFTTT has a Do button widget that lets add a button on your watch. By tapping it, you can select by swiping an IFTTT recipe of your iOS device, and you could create a recipe which is a notification for Pythonista but you never can automatically start Pythonista.
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Ha, and IFTTT is free 😅
Yeah, IFTTT came up when I was googling around about this. This isn't actually a request for something for myself, but an ask by someone else...and it needs to be extra-simple in UX terms: show button or two buttons, allow button press to signal pythonista or invoke pythonista.
Unfortunately, Apple seems to have removed the ability to show buttons of that nature on the Apple Watch when they bought Workflows and turned it into Shortcuts, now you can only invoke those via Siri, it seems...otherwise that would have been perfect.
I think this may be a case where just writing a super simple Swift-based app with a watchOS part to show the buttons is the simplest route.
@shinyformica Sorry, I didn't remark it was obsolete
@shinyformica If I correctly understand this (too expensive for me 😢 ) watch, a press of the side button opens the dock of you preferred apps, where you couple configure IFTTT, then an optional swipe to get the recipe and it's done. That's not too much steps, is it?