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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned about the Core Location and Watch Connectivity frameworks, and how to use them to request and authorize location information. You also learned how to leverage the Watch Connectivity framework to coordinate your iOS app and WatchKit extension for communicating continuous and background updates. We also discussed how to use the WKInterfaceSlider control to adjust and zoom within our WatchKit map.

In the next chapter, we will explore more about the WatchKit framework, and introduce you to some of the ways in which you can navigate the watch face's UI by learning the difference between page-based, modal and hierarchical navigation, and when to use them. We will also explain how to build a health monitor application for the Apple Watch leveraging the HealthKit framework, so that you can interact and share data between the iOS device and the WatchKit extension.

In the next chapter, you'll learn how to access health data to read a person's heart-rate and the number...