Apple watchOS App Development: Advanced APIs

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

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