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Mastering Android Wear Application Development

By : Siddique Hameed, Javeed Chida
Book Image

Mastering Android Wear Application Development

By: Siddique Hameed, Javeed Chida

Overview of this book

Wearable technology is the future of mobile devices. It looks set to be a breakthrough technology, just like the iPad was before it. With the Apple Watch being widely regarded as a success, all eyes are now on Google to provide a similar device for its users. Keep your skills ahead of the competition and be one of the first to fully understand this powerful new trend. This book will give you a very solid understanding of the philosophy, thought process, development details, and methodologies involved in building well-designed, robust Android Wear applications. We cover the advantages and disadvantages of the wearable computing paradigm and provide a good foundational knowledge for you to build practical, real-world wearable apps. You will learn about the various tools, platforms, libraries, SDKs, and technology needed to build Android Wear apps. By the end of the book, you will be an expert in building Android wearable apps.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Android Wear Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Android Virtual Devices


Android Virtual Devices (AVD) will enable us to test the code using Android emulators. It lets us pick and choose various Android system target versions and form factors needed for testing.

Launch Android Virtual Device manager from Tools | Android | AVD Manager.

From the AVD Manager window, click on the Create New Virtual Device button in the bottom left and proceed to the next screen and select the Wear category:

Select Marshmallow API Level 23 on x86 and leave everything else as the default settings, as shown in the following screenshot:

Note

Note that the current latest Android version is Marshmallow of API level 23 at the time of writing. It may or may not be the latest version while you are reading this chapter. Feel free to select the latest version that is available during that time. Also, if you'd like to support or test in earlier Android versions, feel free to do so on that screen.

The configuration window will appear after clicking the Next button:

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