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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

Gradle build files


Let's take a look at how the Gradle build files are configured. The settings.gradle file in the root folder includes all the modules for this project. In this case, it's just one module, which is the Wearable module folder:

You will notice that there are two build.gradle files. One is at the project level and the other is inside the Wearable folder's module level.

The project's build.gradle file is empty because we don't have anything specific to the project build settings, whereas the build.gradle file in the Wearable module contains all the build configurations for this app:

Lines 20, 21, and 22 of the build.gradle file specifies the external build dependencies for this project. Line 20 includes the dependency for Google Play Services, which is an integral part of the Android Wear platform. Google Play Services is used heavily for data synchronization and communication between the Android phones and wearable devices. We'll be covering them in detail in later chapters...