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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 4.  Developing Watch UI

 

"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."

 
 --Giorgio Armani

In this chapter, we will be extending the Today app, we started in the previous chapter using the UI components available in the Android Wear SDK. We will also be looking into building custom UI components using custom layouts that would fit into the watch's form factor.

We will be developing the Today app iteratively and incrementally as we go through the chapters in this book. We will be introducing various concepts and features of Android Wear SDKs and APIs when it's relevant, and utilizing them to make this app as feature-rich as possible.

Please note that by no means will the Today app be finished when we complete this chapter. It will be improved as we introduce more API concepts in further chapters.

Note

The code accompanying this chapter is available for reference on GitHub (https://github.com/siddii/mastering-android-wear/tree/master...