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Building Apple Watch Projects

By : Stuart Grimshaw
Book Image

Building Apple Watch Projects

By: Stuart Grimshaw

Overview of this book

With Apple’s eagerly anticipated entry into the wearable arena, the field is wide open for a new era of app development. The Apple Watch is one of the most important technologies of our time. This easy-to-understand book takes beginners on a delightful journey of discovering the features available to the developer, right up to the completion of medium-level projects ready for App Store submission. It provides the fastest way to develop real-world apps for the Apple Watch by teaching you the concepts of Watch UI, visual haptic and audio, message and data exchange between watch and phone, Web communication, and finally Visual, haptic as well as audio feedback for users. By the end of this book, you will have developed at least four fully functioning apps for deployment on watchOS 2.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Apple Watch Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Plot Buddy – All about Location

Naturally, one of the most important features of mobile devices is their ability to find their own location, whether using GPS sensors or cell data tower locations, or whatever. The Apple Watch is quite capable of capturing location data, either using the iPhone's GPS or when the iPhone is not present, translating its accelerometer data into location data. A pretty neat trick, from a development perspective, and one which enables the user to leave the phone where it is and take off with just the watch.

In developing this app, we will look at several new aspects of programming with the WatchKit framework, as well as a couple of techniques that apply equally to watchOS and iOS development. They include the following topics:

  • Property Lists

  • Core Location framework

  • Protocols

  • Adding an init method

  • Forcing named arguments