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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

Voice capabilities


If you lived your adolescence through the eighties, chances are you got all your knowledge of wearable device voice interactions from this guy:

Three decades on, here you are, itching to find out whether the Wear API offers a system-provided voice action that enables you to summon your car. I'm afraid, not yet. The complete list of system-provided voice actions is presented in the subsection that follows.

Note

You can visit the Android's developer site (https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/apps/voice.html) for more insight on the voice capabilities for your wearable app.

By system-provided voice actions, we mean the voice actions that are built into the Wear platform, that is, provided out of the box for developer use.

In contrast, the term app-provided voice actions refer to those that are specific to your app.

System-provided voice actions

System-provided voice actions must be filtered according to the specific activity you want to start when the phrase corresponding...