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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

Looking over the project


We'll take a moment to have a look at the project, which will differ in some ways to projects you have created just for the iPhone.

Three apps?

The first thing to notice is that you have more source code files than you are accustomed to seeing when you first create a purely iOS app. These are rather conveniently organized into groups in the Navigator pane as follows:

iOS app

In the group named HelloWatch (assuming you used that name when creating the project) you will find the list of source code, xcasset, and info.plist files with which you are already familiar, and these files all make up the iOS app that will run on the iPhone. Remember, watchKit apps for watchOS need a companion iPhone app, however much the Watch app may be your focus, and possibly your user's.

There is little to add at this stage, and in this chapter we will not be changing any of the files in this group.

WatchKit app

The group named HelloWatch WatchKit App contains the Storyboard (and an empty xcassets...