The UIApplicationDelegate in the iPhone App never called reply

Question

I am trying to launch my iPhone app from watch simulator using the below code :

WKInterfaceController subclass

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Answer 1

I would like to add that it is important to start a background task in handleWatchKitExtensionRequest as specified in the documentation. This ensures that the main app on the iPhone is not suspended before it can send its reply. (Not initiating a background task does not cause a problem in the simulator or when the iPhone app is active. However, it causes a problem when the iPhone app is inactive.)

Code in the app delegate of the main app on iPhone:

- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application handleWatchKitExtensionRequest:(NSDictionary *)userInfo reply:(void ( ^)( NSDictionary * ))reply
{
   __block UIBackgroundTaskIdentifier watchKitHandler;
   watchKitHandler = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] beginBackgroundTaskWithName:@"backgroundTask"
                                                               expirationHandler:^{
                                                                 watchKitHandler = UIBackgroundTaskInvalid;
                                                               }];

   if ( [[userInfo objectForKey:@"request"] isEqualToString:@"getData"] )
   {
      // get data
      // ...
      reply( data );
   }

   dispatch_after( dispatch_time( DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, (int64_t)NSEC_PER_SEC * 1 ), dispatch_get_global_queue( DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0 ), ^{
       [[UIApplication sharedApplication] endBackgroundTask:watchKitHandler];
    } );
}