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Apple Watch for Developers

Advice & Techniques from Five Top Professionals

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  • 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.

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. An Apple Watch Introduction

    • Gary Riches, Ruben Martinez Jr., Jamie Maison, Matt Klosterman, Mark Griffin
    Pages 19-25
  3. Examining the Stopwatch, Timer and Calendar

    • Gary Riches, Ruben Martinez Jr., Jamie Maison, Matt Klosterman, Mark Griffin
    Pages 27-52
  4. Taming Complex Data for the Watch

    • Gary Riches, Ruben Martinez Jr., Jamie Maison, Matt Klosterman, Mark Griffin
    Pages 53-121
  5. Examining Home Remote and its Components

    • Gary Riches, Ruben Martinez Jr., Jamie Maison, Matt Klosterman, Mark Griffin
    Pages 123-162
  6. Developing Notation – Audio to Musical Score

    • Gary Riches, Ruben Martinez Jr., Jamie Maison, Matt Klosterman, Mark Griffin
    Pages 163-176
  7. Building the Infinitweet Application

    • Gary Riches, Ruben Martinez Jr., Jamie Maison, Matt Klosterman, Mark Griffin
    Pages 177-206
  8. Developing Apple Watch Cross-Platform Apps

    • Gary Riches, Ruben Martinez Jr., Jamie Maison, Matt Klosterman, Mark Griffin
    Pages 207-237
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 239-243

About this book

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!

About the authors

Gary Riches is a longstanding member of the iOS developer community and is the founder of Bouncing Ball, where he develops high quality iOS applications and games incorporating augmented reality, multiplayer, bluetooth communication, and interfacing with hardware peripherals. He was profiled by Forbes as having one of the “most anticipated Apple Watch Apps.”

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Apple Watch for Developers

  • Book Subtitle: Advice & Techniques from Five Top Professionals

  • Authors: Gary Riches, Ruben Martinez, Jamie Maison, Matt Klosterman, Mark Griffin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1338-4

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Gary Riches and Ruben Martinez Jr. and Jamie Maison and Matt Klosterman and Mark Griffin 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-1339-1Published: 02 July 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-1338-4Published: 03 August 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 248

  • Number of Illustrations: 144 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Apple and iOS, Computer Applications

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 29.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 37.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

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