{"id":17261,"date":"2015-03-10T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=17261"},"modified":"2019-04-02T23:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T06:35:20","slug":"xamarin-releases-watch-kit-support-like-clockwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/xamarin-releases-watch-kit-support-like-clockwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Clockwork, Xamarin Releases Watch Kit Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very excited to announce official support for Apple&#8217;s just-released Watch Kit.<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/watchkit-xamarin1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17269 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/watchkit-xamarin1-189x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To start building Watch apps with Xamarin immediately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download the official <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/devcenter\/ios\/index.action\">Xcode 6.2 release<\/a> from Apple.<\/li>\n<li>Update <b>Xamarin.iOS<\/b> to the latest version.<\/li>\n<li>Update <b>Xamarin Studio<\/b> or the <b>Xamarin for Visual Studio<\/b> extension.<\/li>\n<li><b>File &gt; New Watch App!<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Xamarin provides complete Apple Watch support in both Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio. You can use your favorite IDE to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create new Watch Apps with an associated Watch Extension.<\/li>\n<li>Edit watch user interface storyboards in the iOS Designer.<\/li>\n<li>Start and debug watch apps in the iOS Simulator (Visual Studio uses the Mac Build Host).<\/li>\n<li>Build and test your watch app Glance and Notification modes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.xamarin.com\/guides\/ios\/watch\/\">Watch Kit documentation<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.xamarin.com\/samples\/ios\/Watch\/\">samples<\/a> to get started, or watch this short <a href=\"\/your-first-watch-kit-app\/\">Your First Watch Kit App<\/a> video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J2kgtdCnVoU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.xamarin.com\/discussion\/35514\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Discuss this blog post in the Xamarin Forums.<\/i><\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very excited to announce official support for Apple&#8217;s just-released Watch Kit. To start building Watch apps with Xamarin immediately: Download the official Xcode 6.2 release from Apple. Update Xamarin.iOS to the latest version. Update Xamarin Studio or the Xamarin for Visual Studio extension. File &gt; New Watch App! Xamarin provides complete Apple Watch support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1917,"featured_media":39167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-17261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-developers","tag-xamarin-platform"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We&#8217;re very excited to announce official support for Apple&#8217;s just-released Watch Kit. To start building Watch apps with Xamarin immediately: Download the official Xcode 6.2 release from Apple. Update Xamarin.iOS to the latest version. Update Xamarin Studio or the Xamarin for Visual Studio extension. File &gt; New Watch App! Xamarin provides complete Apple Watch support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}