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Swift Cookbook

You're reading from   Swift Cookbook Over 50 hands-on recipes to help you create apps, solve problems, and build your portfolio of projects in Swift

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784391379
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Xcode and Swift FREE CHAPTER 2. Standard Library and Collections 3. Using Structs and Generics 4. Design Patterns with Swift 5. Multitasking 6. Playground 7. Swift Debugging with Xcode 8. Integrating with Objective-C 9. Dealing with Other Languages 10. Data Access 11. Miscellaneous Index

Time to take your pill


Who in this world has never fallen sick? Let's face it, sooner or later, we fall sick and we have to follow the doctor's prescription. If you are like me and look at the watch frequently when it's time to take the pill, maybe what we need is just an app that can remind us about it, and this time, it will be an Apple Watch application.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need Xcode 6.2 or higher, because we will use the WatchKit, which is not available on the previous versions.

Start as usual by just creating a single view iOS application and call it Chapter 11 Red Pill.

How to do it...

To create the Apple Watch app, follow these steps:

  1. The first thing we need to do is just create a new target, but this time you have to click on WatchKit App to add it from the WatchKit section.

  2. On the next dialog, uncheck the notifications and glance its options; this will make the project cleaner:

  3. After this, a dialog requesting to activate the WatchKit App will appear, accept it by clicking...

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