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Android Wearable Programming

By : Steven F. Daniel
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Android Wearable Programming

By: Steven F. Daniel

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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Android Wearable Programming
Android Wearable Programming
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Understanding Android Wearables and Building Your First Android Wear App
Understanding Android Wearables and Building Your First Android Wear App
Introducing Android wearables
Understanding the Android Wear architecture
Setting up an Android development environment
Building a simple Android wearable application
Summary
2
Creating Notifications
Creating Notifications
Introducing Android notifications
Creating a basic notification for wearables
Creating a custom notification for wearables
Receiving voice input within a notification
Receiving multiple notifications through a process called page stacking
Summary
3
Creating, Debugging, and Packaging Wearable Apps
Creating, Debugging, and Packaging Wearable Apps
Creating an Android wearable watch face app
Presenting information inside the WatchFace class
Creating a custom watch face service class
Debug your Android wearable app over Bluetooth
Running apps directly on an Android Wear device
The Android wearable user interface guidelines
Packaging your Android wearable application
Summary
4
Sending and Syncing Data
Sending and Syncing Data
Creating a wearable send and receive application
Creating a UI for the mobile activity
Creating a UI for the wear activity
Establishing connections for the mobile activity
Sending messages to the Android wearable
Receiving messages using MessageAPI
Transferring image data to the Android wearable
Receiving image data using DataApi
Summary
5
Working with Google Glass
Working with Google Glass
Installing the Glass Development Kit preview
Installing the Google USB drivers for Windows
Creating and building a Google Glass application
Launching the app within Google Glass
An introduction to GDK and the Google Mirror API
The Google Glassware principle design guidelines
Summary
6
Designing and Customizing Interfaces for Android TV
Designing and Customizing Interfaces for Android TV
Creating and building an Android TV application
Customizing the Android TV user interface
The Android TV user interface design guidelines
Summary
Index
Index

Packaging your Android wearable application

After you have finished testing your application to ensure that it is free of bugs, you are ready to publish your app to the world. Before this can happen, you must publish your wearable app directly inside a handheld application. This is due to the fact that your users cannot directly install your app to the wearable device.

Fortunately, this process is not that difficult, and in just a few steps you will be able to package your application using Android Studio. Let's get started by following these simple steps:

  1. From the Gradle Scripts section of the Project Navigator window, select the build.gradle (Module: mobile) option as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Next, under the dependencies section, enter the following code snippet:

    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:21.0.+'

    Note

    You need to ensure that both your wearable and handheld app modules contain the same package name and version, otherwise you will experience build errors.

  3. From the mobile...

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