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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

Switching to-do types


Now if we pull the drawer down from the top edge of the screen and swipe from right to left, we switch to a different to-do item as shown in the following image, which in effect displays a new navigation item:

If we pull the drawer back to the top, it has the effect of setting the navigation item to the current selection. This happens using the onItemSelected method of the WearableActionDrawer.OnMenuItemClickListener class implemented by the TodosActivity activity:

@Override 
public void onItemSelected(int position)  
{ 
  Log.d(TAG, "WearableNavigationDrawerAdapter.onItemSelected(): "  + position); 
  mSelectedTodoItemType = todoItemTypes.get(position); 
  String selectedTodoImage =  mSelectedTodoItemType.getBackgroundImage(); 
  int drawableId = getResources().getIdentifier(selectedTodoImage,  "drawable", getPackageName()); 
  mTodoItemTypeFragment.updateFragment(mSelectedTodoItemType); 
} 

Here is what we see:

Pulling from bottom to top, we see the menu items such...