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Building Apple Watch Projects

You're reading from   Building Apple Watch Projects Discover exciting and fun projects by building brilliant applications for the Apple Watch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887369
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stuart Grimshaw Stuart Grimshaw
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Exploring the New Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. Hello Watch 3. C-Quence – A Memory Game 4. Expanding on C-Quence 5. On Q – A Productivity App 6. Watching the Weather 7. Plot Buddy – All about Location 8. Images, Animation, and Sound 9. Wear It, Test It, Tweak It, Ship It 10. This Is Only the Beginning Index

Challenges for expansion


If you wish to hone your software skills by extending the core functionality of the Plot Buddy app, here are a couple of ideas to get you started:

  • The app uses only two of the CLLocation's properties, but it may be useful to the user to store more of the data returned, such as the time stamp, or the height above sea level. Use the print() command to inspect the data in the console and see if you can add more of it to the app.

  • At the moment, the app stores only one set of locations at a time and the user must send this data to the phone before recording a new set of locations, or lose it, as it is replaced by a fresh list of locations. With a few tweaks, it is possible to store an array of such location sets and send them all together to the paired iPhone.

  • The iPhone does no more than log to the console the arrival of ApplicationContext data. Depending on your level of confidence with iOS development, you may wish to display that data on the iPhone screen or package...

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