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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 (17 chapters)
Building Apple Watch Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


This where we leave C-Quence, at least, as far as this book goes. It would be an excellent idea to go back over the code, right the way from the beginning of Chapter 3, C-Quence – A Memory Game, and experiment with tweaking the code here and there, with a view to better understanding what each line of code does, and how it might be varied.

And if it kills the app? No problem, that's what command-Z is for.

In this chapter, you have learned to:

  • Iterate through the Run-test-fix process to catch bugs

  • Adapt the originally planned code to real hardware conditions, You have

  • Enabled phone-to-watch communication using the WatchConnectivity framework

  • Use of constants to make that communication easier to code safely

  • You have also learned to create shared manager singletons

  • Use NSUserDefaults to persistently store data on both devices

  • You have used Interface Builder's Layout Constraints to create a minimalistic interface on the phone that will correctly adapt to all screen sizes and orientations

In the...