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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

Chapter 3. Developing Android Wear Applications

 

"All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take."

 
 --Mahatma Gandhi

In this chapter, we will be covering the concepts involved in the sample skeleton project that we imported using Android Studio in the previous chapter. We will be discussing the code involved in detail to help us gain some understanding of the fundamental building blocks of an Android Wear application.

Then, we'll be creating a new Android Wear app from scratch using Android Studio. We'll walk through the steps involved in creating the app and discuss the code changes needed and run the app to see the desired outcome.

Let's roll up our sleeves and see some code in action.