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Published inApr 2016
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Steven F. Daniel
Steven F. Daniel
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Steven F. Daniel

Steven F. Daniel is the CEO and founder of GENIESOFT STUDIOS, a software development company based in Melbourne, Victoria, that focuses primarily on developing games and business applications for the iOS, Android, and Mac OS X platforms. He is an experienced software engineer with more than 17 years' experience and is extremely passionate about making people employable by helping them use their existing skills in iOS, Android, and Xamarin to get the job done. He is a member of the SQL Server Special Interest Group (SQLSIG), CocoaHeads, and the Java Community. He was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at SoftMpire Pty Ltd., a company focused primarily on developing business applications for the iOS and Android platforms.
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In this chapter, you learned about the Core Location and Watch Connectivity frameworks, and how to use them to request and authorize location information. You also learned how to leverage the Watch Connectivity framework to coordinate your iOS app and WatchKit extension for communicating continuous and background updates. We also discussed how to use the WKInterfaceSlider control to adjust and zoom within our WatchKit map.

In the next chapter, we will explore more about the WatchKit framework, and introduce you to some of the ways in which you can navigate the watch face's UI by learning the difference between page-based, modal and hierarchical navigation, and when to use them. We will also explain how to build a health monitor application for the Apple Watch leveraging the HealthKit framework, so that you can interact and share data between the iOS device and the WatchKit extension.

In the next chapter, you'll learn how to access health data to read a person's heart-rate and the number...

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Published in: Apr 2016Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781785886362

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Steven F. Daniel

Steven F. Daniel is the CEO and founder of GENIESOFT STUDIOS, a software development company based in Melbourne, Victoria, that focuses primarily on developing games and business applications for the iOS, Android, and Mac OS X platforms. He is an experienced software engineer with more than 17 years' experience and is extremely passionate about making people employable by helping them use their existing skills in iOS, Android, and Xamarin to get the job done. He is a member of the SQL Server Special Interest Group (SQLSIG), CocoaHeads, and the Java Community. He was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at SoftMpire Pty Ltd., a company focused primarily on developing business applications for the iOS and Android platforms.
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