Book description
Apple Watch for Developers: Advice & Techniques from 5 Top Professionals gives you the base-knowledge and valuable secrets you'll need for your own projects from a core team of successful, experienced Apple Watch app-development experts. You'll explore elements such as branding within Watch apps, translating audio data into visual information, taming complex data, mastering environment-driven feature sets, and much more.
This book is for developers who already have some knowledge of developing with WatchKit and WatchOS 2, and who are now interested in learning how to use them to create cutting edge Watch apps. It is written by five experienced, industry-leading Apple Watch developers who have created their apps early, and are now ready to pull apart examples to show you how to best create an Apple Watch app. This book will bring your cool Watch ideas to life!
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: An Apple Watch Introduction
- Chapter 2: Examining the Stopwatch, Timer and Calendar
- Chapter 3: Taming Complex Data for the Watch
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Chapter 4: Examining Home Remote and its Components
- The WatchKit Extension
- The User Interface
- Populating the Table
- Sharing Data Between Extension and App
- Glances and Extension Communication
- The Home Remote Glance
- The Glance
- Handoff
- Navigation Types Available
- Home Remote Navigation
- Hierarchy and Page based Navigation
- Force Touch Menus
- Apple Watch Settings
- Home Remote and Voice Recognition
- About Voice Dictation
- Adding Voice Recognition to the Table
- Modifying the Settings and Glance
- Submitting Your App for Review
- Assets Required for Submission
- The Submission Process
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Developing Notation – Audio to Musical Score
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Chapter 6: Building the Infinitweet Application
- Introducing Infinitweet
- Environment-Driven Feature Sets
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Building Infinitweet
- Getting Started
- Creating the Infinitweet User Interface
- Communicating Between Storyboard and Code
- Capturing User Voice Input
- Navigating Between WKInterfaceControllers
- Working with Social and Account Frameworks
- Prompting the User With Options
- The Infinitweet Algorithm
- Providing User Feedback
- Finishing Touches
- Additional Notes
- Chapter 7: Developing Apple Watch Cross-Platform Apps
- Index
Product information
- Title: Apple Watch for Developers: Advice & Techniques from Five Top Professionals
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2015
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781484213384
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