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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 how to download an image from an external website, extract the animation frames from the ZIP file, and then add them to the image assets catalog. You learned about the App Transport Security protocol that Apple introduced with the release of iOS 9 to enforce developers to provide secure connections between your Apple Watch apps and iOS apps that communicate over HTTPS, and learned how to properly configure our Apple WatchKit extension to allow our app to download images from external websites.

In our next step, we discussed Outlets and how we can connect and bind them to control objects within the Interface Builder canvas and then moved on to learning about creating Action events to our control elements that will be able to respond to user actions when tapped. To end the chapter, we moved on to discussing how to correctly animate an image within the WatchKit interface by cycling through each of the extracted frames and using the startAnimatingWithImagesInRange...

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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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