Android Wearable Programming

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Android Wearable Programming

By : Steven F. Daniel

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Android Wearable Programming

By: Steven F. Daniel

Overview of this book

Android Wearable Programming

Android Wearable Programming

Credits

About the Authors

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Free Chapter

Understanding Android Wearables and Building Your First Android Wear App

Understanding Android Wearables and Building Your First Android Wear App

Introducing Android wearables

Understanding the Android Wear architecture

Setting up an Android development environment

Building a simple Android wearable application

Creating Notifications

Creating Notifications

Introducing Android notifications

Creating a basic notification for wearables

Creating a custom notification for wearables

Receiving voice input within a notification

Receiving multiple notifications through a process called page stacking

Creating, Debugging, and Packaging Wearable Apps

Creating, Debugging, and Packaging Wearable Apps

Creating an Android wearable watch face app

Presenting information inside the WatchFace class

Creating a custom watch face service class

Debug your Android wearable app over Bluetooth

Running apps directly on an Android Wear device

The Android wearable user interface guidelines

Packaging your Android wearable application

Sending and Syncing Data

Sending and Syncing Data

Creating a wearable send and receive application

Creating a UI for the mobile activity

Creating a UI for the wear activity

Establishing connections for the mobile activity

Sending messages to the Android wearable

Receiving messages using MessageAPI

Transferring image data to the Android wearable

Receiving image data using DataApi

Working with Google Glass

Working with Google Glass

Installing the Glass Development Kit preview

Installing the Google USB drivers for Windows

Creating and building a Google Glass application

Launching the app within Google Glass

An introduction to GDK and the Google Mirror API

The Google Glassware principle design guidelines

Designing and Customizing Interfaces for Android TV

Designing and Customizing Interfaces for Android TV

Creating and building an Android TV application

Customizing the Android TV user interface

The Android TV user interface design guidelines

Index

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Receiving messages using MessageAPI

In our previous section, we looked at how we can use MessageAPI to send messages to the Android wearable. In this section, we will take a look at how we can retrieve this message and display it on our Android wearable device:

From the Project Navigator window, open the WearActivity.java file:

Next, add the following highlighted import statements in the WearActivity.java file:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.wearable.view.WatchViewStub;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.util.Log;
import com.google.android.gms.common.ConnectionResult;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient;
import com.google.android.gms.wearable.Asset;
import com.google.android.gms.wearable.DataApi;
import com.google.android.gms.wearable.DataEvent;
import com.google.android.gms.wearable...