Apple Watch™ and WatchKit™

Prepared for Personal Analytics Meetup

By Gene Leybzon, Dec 2014

Apple Watch

Sensors:• Accelerometer• Gyroscope• Heart Rate Monitor (optical)

Watch Kit

Apple Watch Sensors

Accelerometer

• Activity intensity

• Activity kind

Heart Rate Sensor

• Heart response to exercise

• Physical training apps

• Stress measure

Screen

Connectivity

Bluetooth to phone

Bluetooth to headphones

Wireless power

Input Buttons

“Digital crown” (zoom)

“Conversation button” (talk)

Input gestures

• Vertical swipes scroll the current screen• Horizontal swipes display the previous or

next page in a page-based interface• Left edge swipes navigate back to the

parent interface controller• Taps indicate selection or interaction

• “Force touch”

Glances

Notifications

Modal sheets

Sound

Methods of Communications

Template-based Not scrollable, single screen Read-only. Tapping anywhere on the glance opens the app. Optional. Not all apps need a Glance, and users can select

which Glances to display.

Glances

Notifications

• Lightweight interactions• Can be short- and long-view• May contain user actions

Modal sheets

UI Elements

Labels

Images

Buttons

Switches

Sliders

Maps

Applications

Watch App and Watch Kit

Limitations (as of today)

Need to have iOS 8.2 on the phone

Need the watch

Watch apps really runs on iPhone, not the watch

No HealtKit support

No access to sensors