Akhil's Passion

The Apple Watch launch is almost nearing at the time of writing this article. I'm all excited and ready to submit my first Apple Watch compatible application to the AppStore. I'll write down my learning experience here so that you can publish your own Apple Watch application to the app store . I'll do this step by step, as the work of my current app progress. This article will be updated over time until I reach the final step to see it live in the AppStore. Step 1 : Make the iPhone Part of the Apple Watch An Apple Watch app is not much different from an iPhone app. In fact, it is a sub-part of the main iPhone application running on the iPhone and the Watch App merely acts as the extension of the parent app in the iPhone. So essentially, need an iPhone app anyway. In this scenario, I'm thinking of building an app that will be useful both on iPhone as well as the Apple Watch, instead of solely focusing on the the Apple Watch aspect. The app will be very simple, but al...

Apple Watch is soon to release, and being a huge Apple Evangelist, I've been very eager to explore the possibilities of what one can make with these 'Most personal device ever made by Apple'. My hopes are high. I'm in a constant mission to excavate this area at the earliest. And guess what, me and my friends have been working on a couple of interesting 'Apple Watch' things lately: 1. Creating a course - ' Learn Apple Watch Programming Quickly By Examples ' 2. Creating a website for Apple WatchKit Tutorials Both are in beta and will be public soon.  I'm trying to get the latest releases of the WatchKit sdk (which is bundled in Xcode 6.2 beta and higher and is required to build Watch Apps) and trying to publish tutorials on new APIs as and when they come. Following are my objectives with both these online ventures Teach things more by examples and less by theory Convey ideas at the simplest form possible Keep user-interaction at the heart ...