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Apple watchOS App Development: Advanced APIs

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Overview

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Learn how to expand your existing watchOS skills. Use advanced APIs to add motion, connectivity, maps, animation, and gesture support to paired watchOS applications.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
  • Starting the simulator
1. The Background
  • Frontmost app state
  • The dock and the background states
  • The extension delegate
  • Challenge: A background app
  • Solution: A background app
  • Refresh app in the background
  • userInfo in background apps
  • Update interface with snapshot
  • Default snapshots
2. Communicate with the iPhone
  • How devices communicate
  • Add a watchOS target
  • Implement watch connectivity
  • Direct messaging
  • Remote buttons
  • Background communication
  • Challenge: Snapshots
  • Solution: Snapshots
  • Connectivity errors
3. Complications
  • Define complications
  • Add launch complications
  • Large text complication templates
  • Challenge: Circular small complication template
  • Solution : Circular small complication template
  • Configure timelines
  • Timeline entries
  • Complication timelines: Background
4. Advanced User Experience on Watches
  • Maps
  • Animated images
  • Add a SpriteKit scene
  • Add a SceneKit scene
  • Challenge: SceneKit
  • Solution: SceneKit
  • Grouping
  • Gestures
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Steven Lipton

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