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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

Common UI patterns


We will touch upon the most commonly implemented UI patterns in Android Wear development.

Cards

The cards that are displayed in the Context stream can be standard notifications, single-action cards, or an expandable stack that groups related notifications together. In each case, an icon located at the top-right edge of the card indicates the application that the card is associated with.

In some cases, a single notification card does not suffice and more details may be needed. A swipe from right to left can reveal detail cards in addition to the main Context stream card. A swipe from left to right on a card causes it to be removed from the Context stream.

It is noteworthy that notifications dismissed on the wearable will cause them to be dismissed on a paired handheld as well due to the synchronized state shared by paired devices.

A card can optionally display action buttons to the right of detail cards. These actions may run on the wearable itself. Alternatively, they may be...