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Android Wearable Programming
Expand on your Android development capabilities by building applications for Android WearAbout This BookGet to grips with the Android Wear and Google Glass SDK to build your own wearable appsIncorporate voice and input features into your wearable apps and develop custom interfaces for Android TVA step-by-step guide to creating applications that run directly on Android Wear devices and Google GlassWho This Book Is ForIf you are an Android developer who wants to learn how to build applications for the Android Wear platform, then this is the book for you. This book only requires a basic knowledge of Android programming. Familiarity with development IDEs such as Android Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, or Eclipse will be helpful.
What You Will LearnGet introduced to the Android Wear and Google Glass SDKCreate your own basic and custom notifications for Android Wear by using Android notificationsDevelop custom Android wearable watch faces and debug them over Bluetooth prior to packagingDeploy your application to the handheld device or the Google Play StoreDevelop apps that have the ability to send and receive binary blobs of data from the handheld device to the wearable deviceCreate custom layouts for the Android TV platform conforming to the Android TV design principlesBuild effective user interfaces for the Google Glass platformIncorporate voice and input features into your Android wearable appIn DetailThis book will introduce you to the very popular Android Wear platform with hands-on instructions for building Android Wear applications. You will start with an introduction to the architecture of Android, followed by an in-depth look at the design of Android applications and user interfaces using Android Studio. You will see how to create basic and custom notifications for your apps, and synchronize data from the wearable device with the handheld mobile device. More advanced topics such as intents, the Gradle build configuration and the implementation of build variants, and packaging and deploying from a single project code base are also covered.
By the end of this book, you will have a good understanding of wearable programming, and be confident enough to write programs for building Android applications that run on Android Wear.
What You Will LearnGet introduced to the Android Wear and Google Glass SDKCreate your own basic and custom notifications for Android Wear by using Android notificationsDevelop custom Android wearable watch faces and debug them over Bluetooth prior to packagingDeploy your application to the handheld device or the Google Play StoreDevelop apps that have the ability to send and receive binary blobs of data from the handheld device to the wearable deviceCreate custom layouts for the Android TV platform conforming to the Android TV design principlesBuild effective user interfaces for the Google Glass platformIncorporate voice and input features into your Android wearable appIn DetailThis book will introduce you to the very popular Android Wear platform with hands-on instructions for building Android Wear applications. You will start with an introduction to the architecture of Android, followed by an in-depth look at the design of Android applications and user interfaces using Android Studio. You will see how to create basic and custom notifications for your apps, and synchronize data from the wearable device with the handheld mobile device. More advanced topics such as intents, the Gradle build configuration and the implementation of build variants, and packaging and deploying from a single project code base are also covered.
By the end of this book, you will have a good understanding of wearable programming, and be confident enough to write programs for building Android applications that run on Android Wear.
226 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 30, 2015
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