Apple Watch - Getting Started

Apple WatchGETTING STARTED

Agenda• How it works? • Things we should be aware of in app

development and UI / UX design • watchOS 2.0

“Apple Watch represents a new chapter in the way people relate to technology. It’s the most personal device Apple has ever designed, and it enables new ways to receive information and to interact with apps.”

How it works?• This is not autonomic device • No logic on the watch • No direct connection to the internet • What watchOS 2.0 will give us?

Hardware

You have access to… 0 of them.

linear actuator (taptic engine), heart rate sensor, force touch sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, microphone, loudspeaker - so many to use…

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“A WatchKit app complements your iOS app;it does not replace it.”

“As a developer of third-party apps for Apple Watch, you support these brief interactions by providing only the most

relevant information in the most straightforward way possible.”

Notifications

Glances• How it works? • Things we should be aware of in app

development and UI / UX design

Navigation• Page-based • Hierarchical

Handoff• Apple Watch uses Handoff to

convey information about the wearer’s current activity to their other devices.

UI Elements

Labels Images Groups@2x

UI Elements

Buttons Switches Sliders

UI Elements

Date/Time Labels Menus Maps

Accelerometer

Security

HomeKit

Audio

Video

NSURLSession

Microphone

PassKitDigital Crown

Taptic Engine

Tomasz Szulc@tomkowz

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