Developing for Apple Watch: your app on their wrists

✍ Scribed by Kelley, Jeff

• Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

You've got a great idea for an Apple Watch app. But how do you get your app from idea to wrist? This book shows you how to make native watchOS apps for Apple's most personal device yet. You'll learn how to display beautiful interfaces to the user, how to use the watch's heart rate monitor and other hardware features, and the best way to keep everything in sync across your users' devices. New in this edition is coverage of native apps for watchOS 2. With the new version of the WatchKit SDK in Xcode 7, your apps run directly on the watch.
On Apple Watch, your app is right on your users' wrists, making your code closer than ever before. Create native watchOS apps by extending your iPhone app with a WatchKit Extension, giving your users quick access to your app's most important features and an intimate user experience that's always within arm's reach.
You won't just be creating apps - with Glances to provide timely information, notifications to inform your users of the...

✦ Subjects

Application software--Development;COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General;iPhone (Smartphone)--Mobile apps;Wearable computers;Wrist watches;Electronic books;Application software -- Development;iPhone (Smartphone) -- Mobile apps