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Building Apple Watch Projects

Building Apple Watch Projects

By : Stuart Grimshaw
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Building Apple Watch Projects

Building Apple Watch Projects

By: Stuart Grimshaw
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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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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Exploring the New Platform
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1. Exploring the New Platform
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Wide open future
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A closer look at the watch
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A look under the hood
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One App, four interfaces
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User Input Hardware
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Extension of the iPhone, but more
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Summary
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2. Hello Watch
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2. Hello Watch
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Setting it all up
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Looking over the project
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Adding some content on screen
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Give the UI some visual appeal
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Adding some animation magic
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Getting user input
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Ideas for self study
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Summary
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3. C-Quence – A Memory Game
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3. C-Quence – A Memory Game
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Plan the app
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Setting up the project
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GameLogic
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Interface Controller
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Summary
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4. Expanding on C-Quence
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4. Expanding on C-Quence
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Implementing the methods
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Testing and tweaking
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Communicating with the phone
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Summary
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5. On Q – A Productivity App
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5. On Q – A Productivity App
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Download the project template
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Plan the Watch app
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Setting up the project
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Writing the code
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Testing with the iPhone and real data
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Challenges for further growth
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Summary
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6. Watching the Weather
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6. Watching the Weather
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Adding a Glance to an app
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Setting up the project
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Getting the data
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Interface Controllers
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Glances
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Challenges for expansion
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Summary
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7. Plot Buddy – All about Location
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7. Plot Buddy – All about Location
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Planning the app
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Setting up the project
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Data structure
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Getting location data
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The Interface Controllers
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WatchConnectivity
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Final test
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Challenges for expansion
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8. Images, Animation, and Sound
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8. Images, Animation, and Sound
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Adding an icon
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Animation
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Audio and Video
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9. Wear It, Test It, Tweak It, Ship It
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9. Wear It, Test It, Tweak It, Ship It
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Installation on a physical device
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Testing in the field
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App Store submission process overview
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Preparing for submission
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Summary
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10. This Is Only the Beginning
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10. This Is Only the Beginning
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Using animation to the fullest
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Making use of code snippets
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Post release maintenance
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Expanding your skills
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Tools
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Sites to be aware of
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Stay in touch
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Summary
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One last word from the author
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Index
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Index

Planning the app

Although we will be using some pretty advance programming for this app, the actual use scenario is quite straightforward and our user story will be simply structured.

Mission Statement

Plot Buddy will enable the user to store any number of locations directly from the watch; while moving around, say, a plot of land, or a regular jogging route, or any number of situations in which a list of related location data would be useful. When the user is finished, it will be possible to send the data to the paired iPhone (once it is in range), from where it could be used in any number of ways.

User Story

After launching the app, the user will be offered a single active button with the title Start Plotting, which will allow him to start plotting locations.

Once plotting has started, a second button, titled Add Current Coordinates, will become active which will trigger the addition of the current location's geo-coordinates to a list that is maintained by the app. The location coordinates...

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