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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 (12 chapters)
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Index

Chapter 1. Exploring the New Platform

There couldn't have been a more exciting time to be a software developer. A bold claim, undeniably, but if we take a look at the seemingly limitless range of contexts in which we have come to use smart mobile technology for both work and play, it is hard to imagine a more fertile environment in which employ both our creative and technical skills in shaping the next generation of mobile devices.