Making Network Requests on Apple Watch
Fortunately, networking on watchOS is incredibly easy. In traditional Apple fashion, âit just works.â We can use the NSURLSession class to make network requests, download files in the background, and upload files. If you want to use a third-party networking library, such as AFNetworking or Alamofire, you can use them just as on iOS, so long as they use NSURLSession and not its predecessor, NSURLConnection.[8] One thing thatâs transparent to us as watchOS app developers is the actual device used to perform network requests. If the watchâs paired iPhone is connected, NSURLSession connections will use the iPhone as a proxy. Otherwise, the watch will connect to known Wi-Fi networks and perform the request ...
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