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Apple Watch App Development

You're reading from   Apple Watch App Development Build real-world applications for the Apple Watch platform using the WatchKit framework and Swift 2.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785886362
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Steven F. Daniel Steven F. Daniel
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing the Swift Programming Language FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Apple Watch 3. Exploring WatchKit Controls 4. Using the Core Location and Watch Connectivity Frameworks 5. Navigating Around in WatchKit 6. Implementing Tables within Your App 7. Adding Menus to Your App 8. Incorporating the Glance Interface in Your App 9. Incorporating Notifications within Your App 10. Image Compression and Animation 11. Packaging and Deploying Your App Index

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the Core Location and Watch Connectivity frameworks, and how to use them to request and authorize location information. You also learned how to leverage the Watch Connectivity framework to coordinate your iOS app and WatchKit extension for communicating continuous and background updates. We also discussed how to use the WKInterfaceSlider control to adjust and zoom within our WatchKit map.

In the next chapter, we will explore more about the WatchKit framework, and introduce you to some of the ways in which you can navigate the watch face's UI by learning the difference between page-based, modal and hierarchical navigation, and when to use them. We will also explain how to build a health monitor application for the Apple Watch leveraging the HealthKit framework, so that you can interact and share data between the iOS device and the WatchKit extension.

In the next chapter, you'll learn how to access health data to read a person's heart...

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