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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

Android Studio


Android Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is based on the IntelliJ IDEA platform. If you have done Java development using IntelliJ IDEA platform, you'll feel at home working with Android Studio IDE.

Android Studio platform comes bundled with all the necessary tools and libraries needed for Android application development. If this is the first time you are setting up Android Studio on your development system, make sure that you have satisfied all the requirements before installation. Refer to the Android developer site (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#Requirements) to check the items needed for the operating system of your choice.

Note that you need at least JDK version 7 installed on your machine for Android Studio to work. You can verify your JDK version by typing the following commands in the Terminal window:

If your system does not meet that requirement, upgrade it using the method that is specific to your operating system.