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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

Adding some animation magic

We all know, as developers, the pain of finding that an idea that we had thought simple and quick to implement turns out to be much harder than we had imagined. But when programming with WatchKit, you will often find that some quite advanced-sounding technologies are, in fact, extremely easy to use.

WKInterfaceController animation methods are just that, and so we can add some flair to our app by changing the color of the button border – which is to say, the BorderGroup background color - using a call to animateWithDuration.

First, let's add some code to our InterfaceController class, and then we will take a look at what we have done.

  1. Control-drag from the Group in the Document Outline to the code in the assistant editor, to create an Outlet connection:
    Adding some animation magic
  2. Enter the name borderGroup as shown, and hit Connect.
    Adding some animation magic

    Xcode creates a new IBOutlet (connection) between the interface and the source code:

    @IBOutlet var borderGroup: WKInterfaceGroup!
  3. Next, below the HelloButtonTapped...
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