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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 5. Synchronizing Data

 

"How we need another soul to cling to."

 
 --Sylvia Plath

In the previous chapter, we walked you through creating a standalone wearable app. In this chapter, we introduce the idea of a companion handheld app, and why it is needed. We then walk you through the steps required to pair a handheld device with an Android Wear emulator to expand your environment for wearable app development.

We will then augment the Today app we started in the previous chapter with the ability to display this day in history by having it pull content from a public feed page via the companion app.

Note

The code samples for this chapter are available on GitHub (https://github.com/siddii/mastering-android-wear/tree/master/Chapter_5). Please use the actual code for reference as you follow along.