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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

Chapter 6. Watching the Weather

In this chapter we will expand the scope of our development skills, and begin to leverage the vast resources of the Internet. This will give us an opportunity to take a look at using open source data, how to get that data from the web using NSURLSession and how to handle the JSON, one of the web's most common data formats, and the one in which we will receive the information that we are after.

In addition to that, you will learn to present selected parts of the data in a table, as well as presenting selected data in the form of a Glance, which is available to the user even when the main part of your watch app is not running.

And all of this with no help from the iPhone! We will be connecting to the largest source of information in history, using the smallest smart device ever to have reached the mobile tech scene.

If this sounds a little daunting, rest assured that we will be focusing on the simplest methods that are available, using a very minimal...

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