Opening WatchKit

Name: Opening WatchKit
Start: 2015-05-18T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2015-05-18T21:00:00-07:00
Location: AOL Main Auditorium

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WatchKit is out, and many of us are wearing Apple watches and thinking up things to do with them. We're going to dig into that with Intuit engineer and WatchKit expert Kristina Thai (https://twitter.com/kristinathai), who's preparing a tutorial on WatchKit. She's planning to take us through the creation of a simple counter app for the Apple Watch, and share some tips, tricks, and pitfalls that she's learned along the way.

We'll follow that with a couple of demos and short presentations about WatchKit apps that others from the meetup community have already created.

Abey Mullassery (https://twitter.com/abeymm) will show us a mobile banking app that he built for the Apple Watch. (more details coming soon)

Ramin Firoozye (https://twitter.com/raminf) will show us the app he built for Onewheel (http://rideonewheel.com), a motorized one-wheel skateboard that always draws a crowd of onlookers. The Onewheel watch app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onewheel/id946642160?mt=8) lets riders monitor their battery status and speed and adjust the performance characteristics of their Onewheel while they ride.

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Prerita

3,592 days ago

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Kristina F.

3,598 days ago

For those of you that asked about how I did the WWDC-style "live coding" snippets, I wrote a post on how you can do this too - http://www.kristinathai.com/tutorial-wwdc-style-live-code-snippets/

Ramin F.

3,608 days ago

Thanks to everyone who came and a big thank you to Aleksey Novicov for helping with the live projection of the watch screen using his awesome "Glasses" app. I'm amazed it all worked!

Here is a link to the slides on building BLE connected apps for WatchKit: http://www.slideshare.net/raminf/watch-kit-tipsforbleappsmay2015

Kavi M.

3,609 days ago

The Bay Area Apple Watch Group is having it's first meetup tonight at 5pm! Come check it out and share your experiences. https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Apple-Watch-Users-Group/events/222329495/

Tim B.

3,609 days ago

Thanks everyone for making another great meetup. If you'll be around during WWDC week but not at WWDC, I highly recommend Layers, a three day conference two blocks from Moscone that runs from Monday through Wednesday. Layers focuses on design and is bringing together many great designers, and frankly, I think that's more interesting and useful than code, which we can always get from session videos. So I bought a ticket on the day Layers was announced. It would be great to see you there.

http://www.bringyourlayers.com

Joey J.

3,609 days ago

Good tutorial but maybe a little to basic. Good talk about connected apps.

Chandra

3,610 days ago

@KristinaThai : Can you please give the link for the demo project (that we worked on, in the session)?

Kristina F.

3,609 days ago

Here's the finished project: https://github.com/kristinathai/WatchKitCounterDemo

Kristina F.

3,610 days ago

Thanks everyone for coming! Here's the link to the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/KristinaThai/watch-kit-tutorial-intro-2015

Chandra

3,610 days ago

Thanks Kristina. Loved the meetup from start to end.

John K.

3,609 days ago

Thanks for the informative watchkit demo!

Alex S.

3,610 days ago

Great Meetup. I got to ride the Onewheel, which was a blast. The tutorials were very clear and understandable. I'm looking forward to the next one.

Ben M.

3,610 days ago

Kristina's tutorial should be awesome. Abey's and Ramin's apps sound good. If after the event, you feel courageous, join the Apple Watch Hackathon June 13th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/apple-watch-hackathon-tickets-16580187788 You can drop the discount code, SVIOS, created especially for this group. It'll be fun to see what everyone can build.