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Building Apple Watch Projects

You're reading from  Building Apple Watch Projects

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887369
Pages 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Stuart Grimshaw Stuart Grimshaw
Profile icon Stuart Grimshaw

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Building Apple Watch Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Exploring the New Platform 2. Hello Watch 3. C-Quence – A Memory Game 4. Expanding on C-Quence 5. On Q – A Productivity App 6. Watching the Weather 7. Plot Buddy – All about Location 8. Images, Animation, and Sound 9. Wear It, Test It, Tweak It, Ship It 10. This Is Only the Beginning Index

Plan the Watch app


Before we code, we plan. An hour's planning will generally save many hours' wasted coding. This is a good thing, and we've mentioned it before. We might even mention it again.

Mission statement

We will create an app that will prompt the user with small snippets of text for use in say, a presentation or lecture, or any other scenario in which she might otherwise rely on cue cards or similar. Each prompt screen can be swiped to a second screen that shows more detailed, scrollable text. The prompts can be color-coded if desired, perhaps as an indication to progress a slide presentation, or hand out printed material and so on..

The prompts can be advanced manually by tapping forward and backward buttons, or automatically each time the user raises her wrist to glance at the watch screen. The succession of prompts can be stopped by using Force Touch to show a menu, from which the user can stop or continue the sequence.

The text of the prompts (and the detailed text that accompanies...

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