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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
Exploring the New Platform Hello Watch C-Quence – A Memory Game Expanding on C-Quence On Q – A Productivity App Watching the Weather Plot Buddy – All about Location Images, Animation, and Sound Wear It, Test It, Tweak It, Ship It This Is Only the Beginning Index

Give the UI some visual appeal


Our button as it stands is working perfectly, but doesn't exactly cry out to be tapped. The button's default (clear) background color and default button font may identify to an experienced user that it is indeed a button, but let's add a little sparkle to what is still a very monochromatic interface so that everyone new to the Watch - and we can, at the moment, be sure that a large proportion of our users will be just that - will both immediately recognize the button for what it is and be motivated to explore it.

Adding a group

This is a good opportunity to spend a little time looking at one aspect of watchOS development that is very different to its iOS counterpart—UI layout design.

It is not possible with WatchKit to programmatically create an interface or indeed make many fine adjustments to the layout once it has loaded. All this needs to be done before building the app, using the graphical user interface we have been using up until now to add a button to...

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