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Published inFeb 2016
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Stuart Grimshaw
Stuart Grimshaw
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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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Glances


We have the option of adding a Glance scene to a watch app, and while many will not need it, our app is going to make use of this opportunity to provide a small snippet of the information provided by the main app. The Apple Watch's Glance is reachable at all times with a swipe upwards from the watch face, and is intended as a brief, non-interactive engagement with your app. Given how easy it is to reach, the Glance enables your app to provide a limited amount of data which is immediately accessible.

You cannot add most UI objects to a Glance scene, there will be no tapping buttons and selecting from tables and the like. If your user wishes to engage more deeply with your app, she can do so by tapping the Glance screen which will open your main app, just as if she had launched it from the home screen.

When designing and implementing the Glance screen, the main challenge is not so much deciding how to code it, which is likely to be a simplified version of some part of the main app, but...

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Published in: Feb 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785887369

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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