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Building Apple Watch Projects

By : Stuart Grimshaw

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Exploring the New Platform

1. Exploring the New Platform

Wide open future

A closer look at the watch

A look under the hood

One App, four interfaces

User Input Hardware

Extension of the iPhone, but more

Summary

2. Hello Watch

2. Hello Watch

Setting it all up

Looking over the project

Adding some content on screen

Give the UI some visual appeal

Adding some animation magic

Getting user input

Ideas for self study

Summary

3. C-Quence – A Memory Game

3. C-Quence – A Memory Game

Plan the app

Setting up the project

GameLogic

Interface Controller

Summary

4. Expanding on C-Quence

4. Expanding on C-Quence

Implementing the methods

Testing and tweaking

Communicating with the phone

Summary

5. On Q – A Productivity App

5. On Q – A Productivity App

Download the project template

Plan the Watch app

Setting up the project

Writing the code

Testing with the iPhone and real data

Challenges for further growth

Summary

6. Watching the Weather

6. Watching the Weather

Adding a Glance to an app

Setting up the project

Getting the data

Interface Controllers

Glances

Challenges for expansion

Summary

7. Plot Buddy – All about Location

7. Plot Buddy – All about Location

Planning the app

Setting up the project

Data structure

Getting location data

The Interface Controllers

WatchConnectivity

Final test

Challenges for expansion

Summary

8. Images, Animation, and Sound

8. Images, Animation, and Sound

Adding an icon

Animation

Audio and Video

Summary

9. Wear It, Test It, Tweak It, Ship It

9. Wear It, Test It, Tweak It, Ship It

Installation on a physical device

Testing in the field

App Store submission process overview

Preparing for submission

Summary

10. This Is Only the Beginning

10. This Is Only the Beginning

Using animation to the fullest

Making use of code snippets

Post release maintenance

Expanding your skills

Tools

Sites to be aware of

Stay in touch

Summary

One last word from the author

Index

Index

Testing and tweaking

One of the hardest things in developing software is testing its functionality to the limit. There is something inherently difficult about trying to provoke your own code into failing your own tests, but it is absolutely imperative that you cover as many as possible of the scenarios that the app could come up against. Users are so unpredictable.

The first test

With a simple app such as this one, this is not such an insuperable task. Play the game over and over, trying to catch not only the usual sequence of actions that you expect your users to go through, but also all those niggly edge cases, such as:

User fails at the first guess
User taps incessantly on the screen
User manages an incredibly long sequence (pen and paper might help—or just a lot of practice)
User switches to a different app and then returns
Anything else you can think of
Anything that anybody else can think of

The first bug

Now, if you have tested your creation on a real Apple Watch, you may have noticed...

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