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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

Git and GitHub


Git is a distributed version control system that is used widely for open source projects. We'll be using Git for sample code and sample projects as we go along the way.

Make sure that you have Git installed on your system by typing the following command in a Terminal window:

If you don't have it installed, download and install it by visiting, https://git-scm.com/downloads link for your corresponding operating system.

If you are working on Mac OS El Capitan or Yosemite, or Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Mint, the chances are you already have Git installed.

GitHub (http://github.com) is a free and popular hosting service for Git-based open source projects. They make checking out and contributing to open source projects easier than ever. Sign up with GitHub for a free account if you don't have an account already.

We'll be using GitHub to check out various sample projects related to Android Wear and also for sample code for applications developed for this book. We...