14 DAY TRIAL // An awesome car like the Tesla Model S deserves everything that third-party accessory makers can throw at it, and that includes software too.
ELEKS mobility business developer Markiyan Matsekh has created an app for the Apple Watch that lets you control some aspects of the Tesla vehicle, including opening the roof, setting the temperature for individual passengers, locating the car in a parking lot (complete with a map view), locking the car, charging its batteries, and more.
There’s room for much more
Even with all this stuff going on in the demo embedded below for your viewing pleasure, Matsekh says that WatchKit – the framework that Apple dumped on developers to let them create Apple Watch software – is a great step back compared to what he and his team of engineers saw at the keynote address last year.
“If you look at the opportunities available for smart watch application development, you’ll also see a quite pessimistic picture. Apple does not indulge developers with an abundance of functionality and tools. However, we can hope that the available functions are limited because this is only the first beta version and it will get much better towards the release,” wrote Matsekh.
Some of these functions include the Taptic Engine, the gyroscope, the accelerometer, and even the built-in speaker and mic. However, we have every reason to believe that this is only the beginning. Just like with the iPhone not opening itself to developers in its first years, the Apple Watch too will take some time to blossom.
