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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 SDK packages


When you install Android Studio, it doesn't include all the Android SDK packages that are needed for development. The Android SDK separates tools, platforms, and other components and libraries into packages that can be downloaded, as needed using the Android SDK Manager. Before we start creating an application, we need to add some required packages into the Android SDK.

Launch SDK Manager from Android Studio, Tools | Android | SDK Manager:

Let's quickly go over a few items in the preceding screenshot.

As you can see, the Android SDK's location is /opt/android-sdk on my machine. It may very well be different on your machine depending on what you selected during the Android Studio installation. The important point to note is that the Android SDK is installed in a different location than Android Studio's path (/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/).

This is considered a good practice because the Android SDK installation can be unaffected depending on a new installation or upgrade...