Evernote will teach you how to develop application Apple Watch

Although Apple Watch won’t be officially released until April 24, but the world is a popular note-taking application Evernote has pioneered the adaptation of Apple Watch. Not surprisingly, it should be renamed to Evernote for Apple Watch, it will allow users to dictate notes, and search your notes, or are based on different scenarios provide useful notes. Hermes iPhone

Today Apple officially open to all developers Apple Watch application auditing, then we will see more application adapter Apple Watch.

In a fastcodesign interview, Evernote mobile products Vice President Jamie Hull talked about team from experiences gained in the development of the smart watch.

Icons, color is essential

Compared to other types of devices, use clear icons and colour, more important user interface of Apple Watch. Because Apple Watch on small screens and not enough space to allow developers to add a callout. With Evernote, for example, it has three different modes of interaction, these ways are through the tiny screens on the display. To do this, Evernote uses a variety of icons, Visual representation of the button’s function, so that not the slightest waste of pixels. Hermes iPhone

Fast interactive objectives

Apple Watch there is a recommended user interface guidelines, developers need to keep user interaction to watch in 30 seconds or less. Jamie Hull said, “in our view, 30 seconds too long in fact. This should be controlled within 3-5 seconds. “In Evernote team as the Pebble smart watches and wearable platform Android Wear these development-related software, Evernote team realized that, if more than 30 seconds, the user’s arm gets tired. Designs in the application when the user interaction with the application time as short as possible.

Story is King

On the Android platform for Wear though Evernote before trying to get users full access to their notes on the smart watch, Evernote for Apple Watch will take a step back, it will automatically appear on the surface only 5 to 10 notes, and according to show notes are useful depending on the level. For example, when you take a photo to remember your parking space at the airport, Evernote on your return, Apple Watch automatically displayed on the surface of this picture.

Need for rapid iterative updates

Evernote is to be able to develop the best applications on the Apple Watch, but Apple Watch has not been officially released. So, once released, Evernote will be based on user feedback, fast iteration applied to a watch. Just fix the bug, team to its core functionality will be improved. In some ways, published applications is just the beginning of the development of this app, but not the end.

Interaction on mobile phones is even more brilliant point

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Apple Watch application Evernote project’s first rule is, don’t get carried away. Compared to iPhone, iPad or Mac, there are very few really more suitable for Apple Watch. So teams should be clearly focused on somewhere. Evernote quickly dictate notes, view useful notes, eliminate items on the shopping list would suffice. Don’t be another screen to create an application exactly the same functionality, because the user’s cell phone on the side.

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