Apple Updates Developer Human Interface Guidelines for Apple Watch
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple has updated its Human Interface Guidelines for the Apple Watch to help mobile developers better understand the foundations on which Apple Watch itself was designed and best practices for creating Apple Watch apps.These new Human Interface Guidelines provide an overview of the functionality behind gestures, force touch, digital crown, and side button. It also cover...
Electric Cloud Launches GA of Ship.io Continuous Delivery Platform for iOS And Android
Friday, April 24, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Electric Cloud has announced the commercial availability of Ship.io, a cloud-based continuous delivery platform for mobile app delivery. Ship.io brings the cloud to mobile app continuous delivery by automating the build, test and deployment processes of native iOS and Android apps. Ship.io provides end-to-end visibility into the app delivery lifecycle through a Saa...
Getting Your App Ready for Apple Watch
Thursday, April 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
If you want to have your app interact with the Apple Watch, you need to get things in gear because the release of the watch is just around the corner on April 24. To help jumpstart your efforts, the Apple developer portal has a section named “Preparing Your App Submission for Apple Watch.” Included are the following guidelines.Optimizing Your WatchKit AppYou’ll need to ...
Leveraging Apple’s Watchkit to Let Apple Watch Take Your iOS App to the Next Level
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
So its official, the Apple Watch will be available on April 24. Now the pressure is on mobile app publishers to decide if they are going to provide Apple Watch functionality and, if so, how deep to go.Your users may actually make that decision for you. Most iOS phone owners will want the apps on their phones to have some kind of functionality with the Apple Watch once t...
Salesforce Launches Developer Pack for Apple Watch
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
On the heals of the announcement of the release date for the Apple Watch, Salesforce has announced three products for developers interested in leveraging the new technology. These include the Salesforce Analytics Cloud for Apple Watch, Salesforce1 for Apple Watch and Salesforce Wear Developer Pack for Apple Watch. Salesforce Analytics Cloud for Apple WatchSalesforc...
Apple Watch Programming Guide Offers Tips on Leveraging This Year's Hottest Wearable
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
A look into the Apple Watch Programming Guide, which provides a “preliminary” overview, tells you all you need to know when taking a developer-centric look at Apple’s upcoming wearable as they say: Rather than pull an iPhone out of a pocket, a user can glance at Apple Watch and get important information quickly. Apps written for Apple Watch support these brief interacti...
Release of Xcode 6.2 beta 4, iOS 8.2 SDK with WatchKit in January
Monday, January 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
So what is Apple up to on the development front in January? Here is a quick rundown.- Apple has released Xcode 6.2 beta 4, including iOS 8.2 SDK with WatchKit, with the pre-release version Xcode 6.2 Beta 4 offering the complete Xcode developer toolset for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 (14C106a) is also now available.- The first week of Januar...
TapSense to Offer Programmatic Ad Platform for Apple Watch
Monday, January 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
TapSense has announced its will offer a programmatic ad platform for Apple Watch. The platform provides solutions for developers and brands to get started on the new Apple Watch platform including an SDK for app developers and programmatic APIs for brands, agencies, and marketers.The TapSense SDK leverages new interactive interfaces supported by Apple WatchKit such glan...
Apple Announcement Goes As Predicted With iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, New Apple Watch, iOS 8 and Apple Pay
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
As most pundits predicted, there were no shocking developments with Apple’s news announcement as the company introduced two new iPhone 6 models, a new smart-watch, dates for the availability of iOS 8 and a new payment system, Apple Pay.We’ll have more coverage of each aspect of this announcement, however here we are providing exerpts from the Apple press announcements f...