Apple watchOS 7 App Development Essential Training

Course details

The Apple Watch has continually dominated the smart watch market. It accounts for a majority of all smart watch sales, and its sales numbers have even eclipsed those of its analog competitors. In this course, learn how to develop and deploy a native application for this hugely popular smart watch using watchOS 7 and SwiftUI. Instructor Steven Lipton steps through how to build a simple iOS project, putting key concepts in context along the way. Discover how to create a storyboard-based standalone app without a phone base. Learn how to work with SwiftUI to create an app project from an existing phone project. Plus, see how to add navigation, lists, complications, notifications, a custom user interface from the digital crown (the primary hardware input for Apple Watch), and more.

Concepts

Introduction

The new game for wearables
What you need to know

Storyboard Apps

Create a watch-only project
Design the storyboard
Connect objects to code
Write watchOS code
Row controllers in WatchKit
Tables in WatchKit
Run your watchOS app
Working with the simulator
Navigation in WatchKit
Challenge - Ratings page
Solution - Ratings page

SwiftUI on watchOS

Starting a SwiftUI watch project by extensions
SwiftUI on watchOS
Copy a phone interface
Add a watch interface
Add previews and scrolling
Presenting navigation
Add buttons and dismissals
Challenge - Ratings page
Solution - Ratings page

watchOS Specifics

List modifiers
Digital crown
Haptics
Presenting views
Animation modifiers
Challenge
Solution

Complications

What complications are
Add launch complication images and symbols
Data providers
Populate a complication template
Challenge
Solution
Configure sample templates
Timeline entries
Configure timelines
Launching a timeline

SwiftUI Complications

SwiftUI templates
SwiftUI full templates
Gauges in SwiftUI
Multiple templates
Challenge
Solution

Notifications

Push user notifications
SwiftUI notification views
Local notifications in SwiftUI
The push payload
Using the payload data
Challenge
Solution

Conclusion

Next steps