"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.