Is it possible to use watchOS 3 vertical detail paging with a page-based interface?

Question

I am looking to update my watchOS app with the latest watchOS 3 improvements, but I am running into an issue getting the new WKInterfaceTable vertical paging to work. It seems that vertical detail paging requires you to use the hierarchical navigation structure throughout your app.

When I remove all but 1 of my InterfaceControllers and use a push segue from my tables, the paging works as expected. However, if I instead use a push segue from within a page-based interface, nothing happens. When I switch that to a modal segue, the segue itself works but the vertical paging is not enabled then.

Any solutions other than completely switching my apps navigation to get to use this nice watchOS 3 improvement?

Answer 1

According to couple WWDC 2016 videos like Quick Interaction Techniques for watchOS and Architecting for Performance on watchOS 3 you need to

• Enable the Vertical Detail Paging checkbox in your table inspector.
• Use segues from your table to detail interface.
• Make sure the detail interface fits screen height.

So yes, you have to use hierarchical navigation structure (more precisely tables) to take advantage of the new detail paging API.