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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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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

Setting up the project


Set up a new project using the iOS App with WatchKit App template that we have used before, but this time include the Glance Scene (and deselect Notification Scene as previously), as pictured here:

Requirements

Using the flow diagram to provide some (very welcome) visual support, we can now start to think about our requirements in more concrete terms.

Weather data structure

Since we'll be passing a number of weather summaries to the table view that displays the initial view of the data, it makes sense to be able to package the data necessary for each individual summary into some sort of structure.

Create a new Swift file, call it WeatherData.swift, and select both the WatchKit app and the iOS app targets, as pictured here:

Note

Why do we select the phone app target when we are writing an app that will function exclusively on the watch? Well, this is simply some prudent future-proofing of the app. It seems likely that we will expand the app at some point in the future to provide...

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