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Published inFeb 2016
Reading LevelIntermediate
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ISBN-139781785887369
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Stuart Grimshaw
Stuart Grimshaw
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Stuart Grimshaw

Stuart Grimshaw has programmed for Apple computers since the days before OS X and has been involved with developing for the Apple Watch since its release. Born in the UK and having lived in Germany and the Netherlands, he is currently a Senior iOS developer in London, England, United Kingdom. He has around 10 years of end-to-end development of projects experience in, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS (Apple Watch), tvOS (AppleTV), and macOS. He is passionate about the potential of the Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as Apple's Swift programming language, and is a keen proponent of beach coding.
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Plan the Watch app


Before we code, we plan. An hour's planning will generally save many hours' wasted coding. This is a good thing, and we've mentioned it before. We might even mention it again.

Mission statement

We will create an app that will prompt the user with small snippets of text for use in say, a presentation or lecture, or any other scenario in which she might otherwise rely on cue cards or similar. Each prompt screen can be swiped to a second screen that shows more detailed, scrollable text. The prompts can be color-coded if desired, perhaps as an indication to progress a slide presentation, or hand out printed material and so on..

The prompts can be advanced manually by tapping forward and backward buttons, or automatically each time the user raises her wrist to glance at the watch screen. The succession of prompts can be stopped by using Force Touch to show a menu, from which the user can stop or continue the sequence.

The text of the prompts (and the detailed text that accompanies...

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Building Apple Watch Projects
Published in: Feb 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785887369

Author (1)

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Stuart Grimshaw

Stuart Grimshaw has programmed for Apple computers since the days before OS X and has been involved with developing for the Apple Watch since its release. Born in the UK and having lived in Germany and the Netherlands, he is currently a Senior iOS developer in London, England, United Kingdom. He has around 10 years of end-to-end development of projects experience in, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS (Apple Watch), tvOS (AppleTV), and macOS. He is passionate about the potential of the Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as Apple's Swift programming language, and is a keen proponent of beach coding.
Read more about Stuart Grimshaw