
Learn how to load and display images in a WatchKit app, use asset catalogs, 2x/3x naming, and create simple frame animations both in Interface Builder and programmatically.
Explore template images on watch apps, rendering images as templates and tinting them programmatically or as backgrounds. Learn to create a template heart and experiment with random tint colors.
Learn to customize Apple Watch table rows by setting group background colors and images, and toggle colors on tap. Master managing multiple row controllers and programmatic updates to the table.
Add a second and third table in a single app interface and wire up controllers, labels, and timers. Explore dynamic background colors with random and alternating color schemes across rows.
Learn to navigate between Apple Watch interfaces with segways, connect a second interface controller, and pass data using context to display dynamic labels.
Learn to play a movie on Apple Watch using WatchKit, with poster images, video gravity, and loading a bundled sample file.
Explore how to implement and customize context menus on Apple Watch using force touch, including up to four items, images, and programmatic vs interface builder configurations.
Learn to implement the apple watch activity ring with health kit in swift, creating a health kit activity summary to configure active energy burned, exercise time, and stand hours.
Explore how notifications display on the Apple Watch, focusing on long notifications, static and dynamic interfaces, and building push payloads with APNs in Swift.
Do you want to build your own apps for the Apple Watch? Even if you have never coded before, you can build a watchOS app!
You do not need any prior knowledge to take this course – it is perfect for beginners! We cover basic programming concepts of Swift in Xcode.
If you do have experience developing for iOS, with this course you can learn the fundamentals of developing for watchOS. You will learn the notables differences between coding for iOS and watchOS.
To learn how to build the design and functionality of a watchOS app, we will create a simple app of our own in Xcode.
Moreover, you will learn how to add images and movies into your Apple Watch apps. We will even enable notifications!
You will be able to test the app like a user would. By the end of this course, you will have a functioning app that you can expand on to add your own ideas.