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Mastering Android Wear Application Development

By : Siddique Hameed, Javeed Chida
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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

App distribution


In the previous section, we covered in some detail how to test our app. Testing is a prerequisite for distribution, and it would serve us well to familiarize ourselves with what differentiates a Wear app in terms of quality. Check out the article from the online documentation at https://developer.android.com/distribute/essentials/quality/wear.html, which serves as a reminder in this regard.

Once we have implemented our well-designed app and tested it as much as we can, we can start preparing to distribute it to potential users. That is the focus of this section to examine how to ready and distribute our Wear apps to users through Google Play.

Packaging

As we go through the process of building our release APKs using Android Studio, we find that two different APKs are generated, one for mobile and one for wearable.

Packaging a wearable app in Android Studio involves the following steps:

  1. Replicate all permissions from the manifest file of the wearable app module to the manifest...