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Android Studio Cookbook

By : Mike van Drongelen
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Android Studio Cookbook

By: Mike van Drongelen

Overview of this book

This book starts with an introduction of Android Studio and why you should use this IDE rather than Eclipse. Moving ahead, it teaches you to build a simple app that requires no backend setup but uses Google Cloud or Parse instead. After that, you will learn how to create an Android app that can send and receive text and images using Google Cloud or Parse as a backend. It explains the concepts of Material design and how to apply them to an Android app. Also, it shows you how to build an app that runs on an Android wear device. Later, it explains how to build an app that takes advantage of the latest Android SDK while still supporting older Android versions. It also demonstrates how the performance of an app can be improved and how memory management tools that come with the Android Studio IDE can help you achieve this. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop high quality apps with a minimum amount of effort using the Android Studio IDE.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Android Studio Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Watch faces


Out of the box, your Android smartwatch comes with various watch faces and there are plenty of other watch faces that you can download. They are available in any shape or type: square and round or analogue and digital. Actually, there is even another shape - the so-called flat tire one - as seen on the Moto 360 device.

There are many customization options that you can think of but all watch faces are about displaying time and date information in an easy way. This is what watches are for in the first place, aren't they?

They should be aware of incoming notifications and also need to make room for the system indicators such as the battery life icon and the Ok Google text. For more information, check out https://developer.android.com/design/wear/watchfaces.html.

What we will create in the upcoming recipe is a watch face that tells you the time, for example, half past seven or five minutes past ten.

Getting ready

To go through this recipe, you need to have Android Studio up and running...