5. Accessing the Apple Watch Hardware
This is what customers pay us for—to sweat all these details so it’s easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We’re supposed to be really good at this. That doesn’t mean we don’t listen to customers, but it’s hard for them to tell you what they want when they’ve never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve Jobs
In watchOS 1.0, Apple did not provide third-party developers access to the various hardware features of the Apple Watch, such as the accelerometer, microphone, and Taptic Engine. However, in watchOS 2, Apple has exposed some of these features to developers so that they can create more exciting watch apps.
In this chapter, you learn how to access some of these hardware features and see how they ...
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