Last week, well-known Cydia developers, Steve Troughton-Smith, Adam Bell and Cydia Founder, Jay Freeman aka saurik have successfully hacked the Apple Watch on watchOS 2 to run UIKit & SceneKit apps on the device.
Few days later they even ported Flappy Bird and Canabalt to run natively on the Apple Watch.
At its WWDC 2015 Keynote, Apple announced watchOS 2 for Apple Watch, which will allow third-party apps to run natively on the device for better performance. However, even though the logic code for the Watch apps runs on the Apple Watch and they’ve access to the Digital Crown, microphone, Taptic engine, and health sensors, they’re restricted as developers have to use WatchKit to define interfaces. They can’t use superior frameworks like UIKit and SceneKit in the Watch apps like iPhone apps. watchOS 1 is even more restrictive.
But the Cydia developers showed that it was possible to run UIKit based apps on the Apple Watch running watchOS 2. Steve has now successfully hacked his Apple Watch running watchOS 1.0 to run UIKit based apps. Just like the previous hack, this has be done without jailbreaking Apple Watch.
Here’s the video of a UIKit based app running on his Apple Watch on watchOS 1.0.1.
Steve says that “watchOS 1.0 is just as app-friendly” as watchOS 2. Steve and his friends certainly seem to be having a lot of fun hacking the Apple Watch.
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