Nikolay Morev is a software developer at the team working on myMail, the top mobile-only email app (by worldwide combined iOS and Google Play downloads, as stated by App Annie). Over the past five years Nikolay has been developing web and mobile apps.
How do you write a useful app for the Apple Watch? In what ways does it differ from coding for iOS? And what if you don’t have a Watch on hand to test with? Before the launch of the Apple Watch, our iOS team at myMail (one of the popular alternative email apps for iOS) worked tirelessly with a simulator to create a new Apple Watch app.
We wanted the first buyers of the Apple Watch to have the opportunity to use myMail from day one. What we learned through using the simulator and creating the app — including the Apple Watch’s UI quirks, passing data between devices, and the rigors of simulator-only development — is described below and (we hope) will help iOS developers get to results, faster, and avoid a few headaches down the road.
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