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Published inFeb 2016
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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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Setting up the project


In this chapter, we are once again dealing with two apps in parallel, one for watchOS and one for iOS (which has been coded for you, but we will refer to it frequently). All but one of the files (SharedConstants.swift) will be used by one target (that is, one of the apps) or the other, and we must ensure that these targets are correctly selected for each file that we create within the project.

Create the required watchOS classes

We will begin by creating the Swift files that we will need. Once this is done, you will have a good overview of the overall structure of the project and an idea of how the pre-coded iOS files relate to the watchOS app you will be writing.

In the project navigator, select the On Q WatchKit Extension group so that the files we create below will automatically select the WatchKit target in the file creation dialog (where we selected both the On Q and On Q WatchKit Extension targets above) and then perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new Swift file...

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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