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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

Looking over the project

We'll take a moment to have a look at the project, which will differ in some ways to projects you have created just for the iPhone.

Three apps?

The first thing to notice is that you have more source code files than you are accustomed to seeing when you first create a purely iOS app. These are rather conveniently organized into groups in the Navigator pane as follows:

iOS app

In the group named HelloWatch (assuming you used that name when creating the project) you will find the list of source code, xcasset, and info.plist files with which you are already familiar, and these files all make up the iOS app that will run on the iPhone. Remember, watchKit apps for watchOS need a companion iPhone app, however much the Watch app may be your focus, and possibly your user's.

There is little to add at this stage, and in this chapter we will not be changing any of the files in this group.

WatchKit app

The group named HelloWatch WatchKit App contains the Storyboard (and...

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