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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

The TodayActivity activity


Let's see what we have in the main activity—TodayActivity. In the onCreate method, we set the activity_main.xml layout as the content view. And we have WearableListView  with action_list tied to the ListViewAdapter class.

Note that the TodayActivity activity also implements the click listener for the WearableListView class, which is why you see the onClick handler method implemented right next to the onCreate method.

At this point, the onClick listener method is handling only the first item in the list view. It launches DayOfYearActivity when it's clicked, and when the default Intent bundle is passed:

public class TodayActivity extends Activity implements WearableListView.ClickListener 
{
  private static final String TAG = TodayActivity.class.getName();

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)   
  {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);   
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    WearableListView listView = (WearableListView) findViewById...