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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 2. Understanding Apple Watch FREE CHAPTER 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

Chapter 5. Navigating Around in WatchKit

We will begin this chapter by building 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. You will also learn about the various modes of navigation that are available within the WatchKit platform when interacting between interface controllers. We will explain how to use the HealthKit framework to access health data in order to do the following:

  • Read a person's heart rate
  • Count the number of steps that the person takes on a particular day
  • Access the user's profile data to extract their date of birth for calculating their age as well as their sex and blood type

To end the chapter, we will compile, build, and run the Health Monitor application and install this on the Apple Watch so that you can test the app and ensure that everything is working correctly.

This chapter includes the following topics:

  • Building a Health...
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