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Apple Watch App Development

You're reading from  Apple Watch App Development

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785886362
Pages 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Steven F. Daniel Steven F. Daniel
Profile icon Steven F. Daniel

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Apple Watch App Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
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Preface
1. Introducing the Swift Programming Language 2. Understanding Apple Watch 3. Exploring WatchKit Controls 4. Using the Core Location and Watch Connectivity Frameworks 5. Navigating Around in WatchKit 6. Implementing Tables within Your App 7. Adding Menus to Your App 8. Incorporating the Glance Interface in Your App 9. Incorporating Notifications within Your App 10. Image Compression and Animation 11. Packaging and Deploying Your App Index

Introduction to working with WatchKit glances


Before we can begin adding and using glances within our Shopping List application, we need to get a better understanding of how they work within the WatchKit framework. We did talk a bit about this in an earlier chapter, Chapter 2, Understanding Apple Watch, so much of this will be quite similar.

In the next section, we will talk a bit about the glance controller life cycle, and you will note that the glance controller inherits all of the existing functionalities of the WKInterfaceController class and contains a variety of methods and calls that help determine whenever a glance becomes active or the controller context instance becomes awake.

Understanding the glance controller life cycle

The WatchKit glance interface controller is initialized at an early stage within your application so that it can be delivered to the user much more quickly. The glance interface controller is basically pretty much the same as any other view controller that comes...

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