Apple Watch for Developers: Advice & Techniques from Five Top Professionals

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!

What you’ll learn

• Accept and handle voice recognition on the Apple Watch
• Best send data back and forth from iCloud
• Perform functions that take very few taps of a screen
• Leverage frequency detection
• Run your apps natively on the Watch
• Work with App Groups to send and receive data
• Interface with synced Twitter accounts

Who this book is for

• Apple Watch developers
• Mobile developers (primarily iOS)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: An Apple Watch Introduction
Chapter 2: Examining the Stopwatch, Timer and Calendar
Chapter 3: Taming Complex Data for the Watch
Chapter 4: Examining Home Remote and its Components
Chapter 5: Developing Notation – Audio to Musical Score
Chapter 6: Building the Infi nitweet Application
Chapter 7: Developing Apple Watch Cross-Platform Apps