The document provides an overview of getting started with the Apple Watch, emphasizing its personal device nature and interaction capabilities. It highlights essential components of watchOS 2.0, such as user interface design and app development considerations, noting that the watch is not an independent device but rather complements iOS apps. Key features and hardware like sensors, notifications, and navigation methods are also discussed.

1. Apple Watch
GETTING STARTED

2. Agenda
• How it works?
• Things we should be aware of in app
development and UI / UX design
• watchOS 2.0

3. “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.”

4. 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?

5. 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…
…

6. “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.”

7. Notifications

8. Glances
• How it works?
• Things we should be aware of in app
development and UI / UX design

9. Navigation
• Page-based
• Hierarchical

10. Handoff
• Apple Watch uses Handoff to
convey information about the
wearer’s current activity to their
other devices.

11. UI Elements
Labels Images Groups
@2x

12. UI Elements
Buttons Switches Sliders

13. UI Elements
Date/Time
Labels
Menus Maps

14. Accelerometer
Security
HomeKit
Audio
Video
NSURLSession
Microphone
PassKitDigital Crown
Taptic Engine

15. Tomasz Szulc
@tomkowz
tomasz.szulc@blstream.com