Learn WatchKit for iOS [Paperback]

Learn WatchKit for iOS covers the development of applications for the new Apple Watch using the WatchKit framework in iOS 8 and the Swift programming language. In this book, an Apple Watch application is an extension to an existing iOS app and is packaged and submitted to the App Store along with it. Using a suite of simple examples, Kim Topley, co-author of Beginning iPhone Development with Swift, introduces and explains every feature of WatchKit and the associated technologies that you’ll need to understand to build Apple Watch applications for iOS 8, culminating in a complete WatchKit application that shows weather forecast information for various cities around the world on the Apple Watch.

Chapter 1. Welcome to the Apple Watch

Chapter 2. Interface Controllers and Layout

Chapter 3. Watch User Interface Objects

Chapter 4. More Watch User Interface Objects

Chapter 5. Controller Navigation

Chapter 6. Tables and Menus

Chapter 7. Building a WatchKit App

Chapter 8. Glances, Settings, and Handoff

Chapter 9. Notifications

Kim Topley is a software engineer with over thirty years of experience ranging from mainframe microcode and the UNIX kernel to graphical user interfaces and mobile applications. He is the author of five books on various aspects of Java and JavaFX and has been working with iOS since reading one of the first books published on the subject—the first edition of Beginning iPhone Development.Learn WatchKit for iOS covers the development of applications for the new Apple Watch using the WatchKit framework in iOS 8 and the Swift programming language.