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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

Ideas for self study


Before moving on, it's a good idea to play around with the features and code we have covered in this chapter and explore what happens when changing some of the details to see what effect it has on the app and its interface.

One excellent candidate is the borderGroup object we used to fake the button border. If you option-click on the declaration at the top of the InterfaceController code, you will be presented with a pop-up window that provides you, with among much other useful information, a list of WKInterfaceGroup settable properties which are available to you. Start by typing self.borderGroup.set and let Xcode's code completion show you what's on offer:

A Command-click on one of the UIColor methods such as .redColor() will take you to a list of convenience methods which create a limited number of preset colors. Why stick to a choice of three? Why not 10? (But you'll have to scroll!)

You might also like to print() a warning to the console when the modal dialog returns...