Learning WatchKit Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Apple Watch Applications (Paperback)

Create Breakthrough Apple Watch Apps with the WatchKit Framework

With its Apple Watch and WatchKit framework, Apple is challenging developers to build exciting and innovative apps for Apple Watch. iOS developers who master Apple Watch programming now will have the same huge “early mover” advantage that early iPhone developers enjoyed. Learning WatchKit Programming is a complete, hands-on tutorial for all iOS developers who are ready to design and build tomorrow’s hottest new wearable apps.

Leading iOS development trainer and author Wei-Meng Lee covers all of the fundamentals of Apple Watch development and the WatchKit API, from application architecture and design to navigation, notification, and glances. Using practical Swift code examples designed for clarity and simplicity, Lee guides you through building apps from the ground up and shows you how to integrate those apps with the iPhone for expanded capabilities.

The perfect companion to other mobile development books in the Learning Series, this guide helps you extend your iOS skills to a whole new environment, build apps that solve a new set of problems, and reach millions of people in the new Apple Watch marketplace

Coverage includes

• Getting started quickly with WatchKit and Apple Watch development
• Storyboarding apps and testing them on the Apple Watch Simulator
• Mastering Apple Watch’s multiple-screen navigation
• Building highly efficient interfaces with Apple Watch UI controls
• Customizing each screen’s look and feel, and passing data between them
• Responding to user interactions via buttons, switches, sliders, or Force Touch
• Displaying information via labels, images, or tables
• Communicating between an Apple Watch app and its containing iOS app
• Calling web services from Apple Watch
• Displaying short- and long-look notifications
• Customizing notifications to display your message’s essence more quickly
• Implementing glances to give users a faster way to gather information
• Localizing your Apple Watch apps

All of this book’s sample Swift code is available for download at informit.com/title/9780134195445.

使用WatchKit框架創建突破性的Apple Watch應用程式

藉著Apple Watch和WatchKit框架，蘋果正在挑戰開發者為Apple Watch建立令人興奮和創新的應用程式。掌握Apple Watch程式設計的iOS開發者將享有與早期iPhone開發者相同的巨大「先行者」優勢。《學習WatchKit程式設計》是一本完整的實作教學，適用於所有準備設計和建立明日最熱門新穿戴式應用程式的iOS開發者。

領先的iOS開發培訓師和作者Wei-Meng Lee涵蓋了Apple Watch開發和WatchKit API的所有基礎知識，從應用程式架構和設計到導航、通知和一覽。Lee使用實用的Swift程式碼示例，以清晰和簡單的方式指導您從頭開始建立應用程式，並展示如何將這些應用程式與iPhone整合，以擴展功能。

作為《學習系列》中其他移動開發書籍的完美伴侶，本指南幫助您將iOS技能擴展到全新的環境，建立解決一系列新問題的應用程式，並在新的Apple Watch市場觸及數百萬人。

內容包括：
- 快速入門WatchKit和Apple Watch開發
- 在Apple Watch模擬器上繪製應用程式並進行測試
- 掌握Apple Watch的多屏幕導航
- 使用Apple Watch UI控制項建立高效介面
- 自定義每個屏幕的外觀和感覺，以及在它們之間傳遞數據
- 通過按鈕、開關、滑塊或Force Touch回應用戶互動
- 通過標籤、圖像或表格顯示信息
- 在Apple Watch應用程式和其包含的iOS應用程式之間進行通信
- 從Apple Watch呼叫網路服務
- 顯示短期和長期通知
- 自定義通知以更快地顯示訊息的要點
- 實現一覽以讓用戶更快地獲取信息
- 將您的Apple Watch應用程式本地化

本書的所有Swift範例程式碼可在informit.com/title/9780134195445下載。