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Android Wearable Programming

By : Steven F. Daniel
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Android Wearable Programming

By: Steven F. Daniel

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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Android Wearable Programming
Android Wearable Programming
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
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
Summary
2
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
Summary
3
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
Summary
4
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
Summary
5
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
Summary
6
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
Summary
Index
Index

Installing the Glass Development Kit preview

Before we can start developing applications for the Google Glass platform, we will need to look at how to install the Google Glass Development Kit SDK:

  1. Launch Android SDK Manager using SDK Manager in Android Studio.

  2. Click on the SDK Platform option and select the Glass Development Kit Preview packages that are located under the Android 4.4.2 (API 19) section to install them:

    Note

    The Google Glass Development Kit (GDK) is currently in preview and is only available within Android 4.4.2 (API 19) SDK.

  3. Next, accept the license information for Android SDK License and Google Gdk License by selecting the Accept License option.

  4. Then, click on the Install button to begin installing the packages, as shown in the following screenshot:

You will notice that the Glass Development Kit is still in developer preview and as such, at the time of writing, there is currently no emulator provided to test your apps, so you will need to have a Google Glassware device to deploy...

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