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Published inApr 2016
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Steven F. Daniel
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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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Introduction to the WatchKit platform


This section provides you with an overview of the WatchKit platform, which is a fundamental part of Apple Watch. When developing apps for Apple Watch, it takes advantage of the WatchKit framework that happens to be included as part of the iOS SDK, and both are embedded into the watchOS and iOS operating systems.

The WatchKit framework contains the necessary classes that provide the underlying functionality for both the WatchKit extension and the WatchKit application and is responsible for handling all of the communication between the WatchKit extension that runs on the iPhone device and its corresponding WatchKit application that is installed on Apple Watch.

Whenever you begin developing Apple Watch apps, you will notice that your project contains a number of different targets that make use of the WatchKit platform.

Note

A target is the final end product that is created by your application, and these can be either an app, a framework, or even a static library...

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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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