Building Apple Watch Apps with Xamarin

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C# app built with Xamarin and WatchKit, authored in Visual Studio for Mac with Xcode for storyboards, uses JSON.NET for messages and WCSession to sync watch ↔ iPhone. Implements a baby-tracker: a feeding timer, a workout session that writes heart rate and energy to HealthKit, and live updates to complications. Adds local notifications and a Reactive Extensions rule that flags heart rate >30 and pushes an iPhone update. Demo runs end-to-end though tooling is flaky and may need restarts.

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1. 0:00Introduction and setup
2. 4:47Apple Watch fundamentals
3. 10:53Xamarin approach for watch apps
4. 16:24Creating a watch project
5. 20:47Building watch user interfaces
6. 24:13Notifications and complications
7. 31:05Baby monitor app demo
8. 33:38Implementing feeding tracker
9. 42:08Workout tracking with HealthKit
10. 48:53Reactive extensions in watch apps
11. 51:11Local notifications demo
12. 52:39Wrap-up and Q&A

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