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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

Skeleton app


If you recall from the previous chapter, we used Android Studio to import the sample project to build a skeleton wearable application. If you wonder where we got all the code from, here is the GitHub repository link for that project, https://github.com/googlesamples/android-SkeletonWearableApp/.

Android Studio gets updated all the time. At the time of writing, Android Studio 2.0 preview 7 is the latest version currently available. It may or may not be the same version while you are reading this book.

If, for some reason, Android Studio doesn't let you import the Skeleton wearable app or the repository of the sample code is not available in Google's Samples GitHub repository, you can clone it from the fork I created for that project in my GitHub repository, https://github.com/siddii/android-SkeletonWearableApp.

Note

If you have done any Android app development before, you'll be able to follow this chapter. If not, this is a good time to brush up on some Android application development...