WatchOS 2 App Development Essentials
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Table of Contents
- An Introduction to Watch Connectivity in watchOS 2
- A watchOS 2 WatchConnectivity Messaging Tutorial
- About the Project
- Creating the Project
- Enabling Audio Background Mode
- Designing the iOS App User Interface
- Establishing Outlets and Actions
- Initializing Audio Playback
- Implementing the Audio Control Methods
- Initializing the iOS App Watch Connectivity Session
- Designing the WatchKit App Scene
- Initializing the WatchKit App Connectivity Session
- Sending the Message to the iOS app
- Handling the Message in the iOS app
- Testing the Application
- A watchOS 2 WatchKit Dynamic Layout and Animation Tutorial
- An Introduction to the watchOS 2 WatchKit WKInterfacePicker Object
- An Overview of the WKInterfacePicker Object
- Adding a Picker Object to a Storyboard Scene
- Understanding Picker Object Attributes
- Understanding Picker Object Styles
- Creating Picker Item Objects
- Setting the Currently Selected Item
- Coordinating Animations
- Requesting Focus for the Picker Object
- Enabling and Disabling a Picker Object
- Responding to Picker Changes
- A watchOS 2 WatchKit Picker Tutorial
- A WatchKit WKInterfacePicker Coordinated Animation Example
- About the Coordinate Image Picker Project
- Generating Radial Animations
- Creating the Example Project
- Designing the WatchKit App user Interface
- Adding the Picker Image Sequences to the Project
- Adding the Group Background Image Sequences to the Project
- Implementing the Picker Animation Sequence
- Configuring the Group Background Animation
- Testing the App
- Playing Movies and Audio on watchOS 2 using the WKInterfaceMovie Class
- A watchOS 2 WatchKit Audio Recording and Playback Example
- A watchOS 2 Complication Tutorial
- About the Complication Project
- Creating the Complication Project
- Configuring the Supported Complication Families
- Adding the Data and Image to the Data Source
- Implementing the Placeholder Delegate Method
- Configuring Travel Directions
- Adding a Timeline Entry Creation Method
- Specifying the Timeline Start and End Dates
- Providing the Current Timeline Entry
- Providing the Remaining Timeline Entries
- Adding the Complication to a Clock Face
- Testing the Complication