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Android Wearable Programming

Android Wearable Programming

By : Steven F. Daniel
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Android Wearable Programming

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Overview of this book

If you are an Android developer who wants to learn how to build applications for the Android Wear platform, then this is the book for you. This book only requires a basic knowledge of Android programming. Familiarity with development IDEs such as Android Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, or Eclipse will be helpful.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Preface
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What this book covers
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1. Understanding Android Wearables and Building Your First Android Wear App
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1. Understanding Android Wearables and Building Your First Android Wear App
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Introducing Android wearables
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Understanding the Android Wear architecture
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Setting up an Android development environment
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Building a simple Android wearable application
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2. Creating Notifications
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2. Creating Notifications
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Introducing Android notifications
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Creating a basic notification for wearables
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Creating a custom notification for wearables
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Receiving voice input within a notification
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Receiving multiple notifications through a process called page stacking
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3. Creating, Debugging, and Packaging Wearable Apps
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3. Creating, Debugging, and Packaging Wearable Apps
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Creating an Android wearable watch face app
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Presenting information inside the WatchFace class
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Creating a custom watch face service class
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Debug your Android wearable app over Bluetooth
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Running apps directly on an Android Wear device
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The Android wearable user interface guidelines
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Packaging your Android wearable application
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4. Sending and Syncing Data
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4. Sending and Syncing Data
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Creating a wearable send and receive application
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Creating a UI for the mobile activity
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Creating a UI for the wear activity
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Establishing connections for the mobile activity
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Sending messages to the Android wearable
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Receiving messages using MessageAPI
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Transferring image data to the Android wearable
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Receiving image data using DataApi
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5. Working with Google Glass
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5. Working with Google Glass
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Installing the Glass Development Kit preview
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Installing the Google USB drivers for Windows
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Creating and building a Google Glass application
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Launching the app within Google Glass
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An introduction to GDK and the Google Mirror API
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The Google Glassware principle design guidelines
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6. Designing and Customizing Interfaces for Android TV
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6. Designing and Customizing Interfaces for Android TV
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Creating and building an Android TV application
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Customizing the Android TV user interface
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The Android TV user interface design guidelines
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Sending messages to the Android wearable

In this section, we will be taking a look at the steps involved in sending a message to your Android wearable device. This process is quite simple, and our next step is to write the code that will communicate between our Android wearable and the handheld device:

  1. From the Project Navigator window, open the MobileActivity.java file.

  2. Next, modify the onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) method and enter the code highlighted as follows:

    @Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.layout.activity_mobile);

  // Get a pointer to our buttons and textField
  final Button mSendMessageButton = (Button) 
  findViewById(R.id.send_message_button);
  final EditText mSendMessageInput = (EditText) 
  findViewById(R.id.send_message_input);

  // Set up our hint message for our Text Field
  mSendMessageInput.setHint(R.string.send_message_text);

  3. Next, we need to set up an onClickListener method...

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