Apple announces developers "All Apple Watch apps should be native compatible by June 1, 2016"

ByYann Caradec

Initially, when Apple Watch was released, third party appsNative applicationIt was not. As a result, third-party apps are slow to launch and behave slowly and unpopular as "hard to use". Third-party apps are now also compatible with native apps in a later update, but newly "All Apple Watch apps should be natively compatible by June 1, 2016," Apple Has announced it for developers.

Upcoming Requirement for watchOS Apps - News and Updates - Apple Developer
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=04222016a


Apple requires all new watch OS apps be native by June 1
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Apple Developer Website ·Apple DeveloperIn the latest announcement published at Apple, Apple announced to developers "Be sure to make all apps for Apple Watch be native apps by June 1, 2016".

'WatchOS 2', an OS for Apple Watch, was released in September 2015. On this occasion, "WatchKit" which is a software development kit (SDK) for developing applications for Apple Watch has evolved to be compatible with watch OS 2. With this SDK, developers can create their own custom watch faces, access the hardware elements of Apple Watch such as digital crowns and Taptic Engine, and even use "HealthKit" Since the terminal can also access the area where the biometric authentication data is stored, it was possible to develop a high-level application with higher affinity with the terminal.


The most noteworthy release of that "watch OS 2" was that third party apps also corresponded to native apps. If it becomes a native application, it becomes unnecessary to have data transfer from the iPhone which is a host even by a third party application many times, and it will be able to perform more comfortable operation.

It is obligatory that all applications are natively compatible at this timing when 7 months have elapsed since the release of "watchOS 2", but this is just a prayer that the operation of the Apple Watch application will be comfortable at all.

ByJun Seita