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Apple Watch App Development

By : Steven F. Daniel
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Apple Watch App Development

By: Steven F. Daniel

Overview of this book

With the increasing amount of new wearable devices hitting the market, wearables are the next wave of mobile technology. With the release of Apple's WatchKit SDK, a whole new world of exciting development possibilities hasopened up. Apple Watch App Development introduces you to the architecture and limitations of the Apple Watch platform, followed by an in-depth look at how to work with Xcode playgrounds. Here, we'll introduce you to the Swift programming language so you can quickly begin developing apps for the Apple Watch platform with the WatchKit framework and the Xcode Development IDE. We then discuss more advanced topics such as Notifiations, Glances, Closures, Tuples, Protocols, Apple pay, and using Swift playgrounds, with each concept backed up with example code that demonstrates how to properly execute it. We also show you how to package and deploy your Watch application to the Apple AppStore. By the end of this book, you will have a good understanding of how to develop apps for Apple Watch platform using the WatchKit framework and Swift 2.0.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Apple Watch App Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Understanding Apple Watch

During the launch of WWDC 2015, Apple introduced a new addition to their product lineup called Apple Watch, which runs the new watchOS platform. It has been designed and built from the ground up while borrowing design characteristics from iOS 8, with features and apps that take advantage of the hardware within the Apple Watch device.

Apple Watch comes with a variety of apps, such as Activity and Workout, which read data from the accelerometer and the heart rate sensor, while other apps contain communication features that enable users to send sketches, heartbeats, as well as animated emojis. Notification messages are sent from the iPhone device and delivered to Apple Watch with small haptic taps on the wrist, while Glances offers small pieces of information that can easily be digested in a few seconds without having to pull your iPhone out of your pocket.

Since the release of Apple Watch, the Apple developer community has embraced this new piece of technology...