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Developing your first Apple Watch App

Author: Piyush Jain
by Piyush Jain
Posted: May 22, 2020

As we know Apple Watch isn’t new wrist or wearable device in the market but it is new interactive and communicative device invented by Apple. It can be used as most personal wearable device to receive real time information and interact with apps. Apple Watch will be completely adopted in the market in the mid of 2016. It has significant new advance feature that fulfill your needs. Through apple Watch you can access data in more personal and miserable way.

Necessary Tools and Specification

Apple Watch requires the availability of iPhone device to run third party apps and to develop these custom third-party apps; you need to use AppleWatchKit tool built in a new Xcode 6.3 and iOS SDK 8.3. This WatchKit App has two separate bundles: A Watch App that runs on your Apple Watch and WatchKit Extension that runs on your iPhone device. WatchKit software tool is not only users to create apps, you can also create ‘Glance’ and ‘Actionable Notifications’ for your iPhone apps that increases the user engagement by timely read only information that is a quick lightweight view of your app and notifications that you can take actions from the wrist.

Features that you must know before start development

Since Apple invented one of the powerful operating system of all time while ensuring ease to access wide range of features and scalable application. Apple Watch is also developed with imaginative features. Some of useful features are mentioned below that can help to increase the user engagement and revenue of your iPhone Application:

Fitness Tracking: Through the built in Activity app you can track burned calories, body movement mainly brisk activity and stood up like how many times you’ve stood up to take a break from your sitting. This app is work upon sensors data. If you have kind of fitness tracking application then you can develop an Apple Watch app for your app and update your clients with this new technology.

Built in Apps: Apple watch is truly amazing watch in all watch categories and it comes with a series of highly useful apps like Phone calling, Email, Message, Calendar, Activity, Workout, Maps, Passbook, Siri, Music, Camera Remote, Remote, Weather, Stocks News, and Photos, Alarm, StopWatch, WorldClock, and Timer. Now these days rumors can be listed for Apple Watch Second Generation with some more highly advance features that may be boost our personal lifestyle with technology.

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About the Author

Piyush Jain is the founder and CEO of Simpalm. Piyush founded Simpalm in 2009 and has grown it to be a leading mobile and web development company in DMV area.

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