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Learning Xcode 8

You're reading from   Learning Xcode 8 Learn to build iOS Applications with Xcode 8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885723
Length 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jak Tiano Jak Tiano
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting Your iOS Journey FREE CHAPTER 2. Welcome to Xcode 3. Introduction to Swift 3 4. Using Storyboards, Auto Layout, and Size Classes 5. Taking Advantage of Source Control in Xcode 6. Building Your First iOS App 7. Integrating Multitouch and Gestures 8. Exploring Common iOS Frameworks 9. Working with Core Data 10. Creating a watchOS Companion App 11. Advanced Input Using Sensors 12. Sending Notifications 13. Writing Unit Tests 14. Debugging an iOS Application 15. Optimizing Your App 16. Distributing an iOS App Index

Snippets for Apple Watch


Finally, it's time to begin development of our very own Apple Watch app! For our app, we are going to create a very simple feature: we will let users create a new text snippet using voice dictation. First we'll build the core application, and then we'll make a small complication to allow us to access the app right from the watch face.

Setting up our project

Before we get started, we have to set up our Snippets project to be ready for Apple Watch development. Open up your Snippets Xcode project again, or as always, you can grab my completed version from the last chapter (the Chapter 9, Working with CoreData, resources folder) if your project isn't quite up to speed yet.

To get our project ready for an Apple Watch app, we have to create the two new target bundles we discussed earlier. Go to File | New | Target, and then from the top bar select watchOS, and finally select the WatchKit App target type. Check out Figure 10.5 to confirm you have the correct template:

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