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Android Wear Projects

By : Ashok Kumar S
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Android Wear Projects

By: Ashok Kumar S

Overview of this book

Android Wear Projects is your opportunity to step into the exciting new world of Android Wear app development. This book will help you to master the skills in Android Wear programming and give you a complete insight on wear app development. You will create five different Android Wear apps just like the most popular Android Wear apps. You will create a To-do list, a city maps app, a Wear messenger, Wear fitness tracker and Watch face. While you create these apps you will learn to create custom notifications, receive voice inputs in notifications, add pages to notifications and stack notifications. You will see how to create custom wear app layouts, the custom UIs specially designed for Wear. You will learn to handle and manage data and syncing data with other devices, create interactive Watch faces and also ensure the safety and security of your Wear apps by testing and securing your apps before you deploy them on the app store.

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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Title Page
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting You Ready to Fly - Setting Up Your Development Environment
Getting You Ready to Fly - Setting Up Your Development Environment
Android Wear design principles
Exploring UI components for Wear devices
Setting up a development environment for Wear development
Creating your first Android Wear application
Summary
2
Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - WearRecyclerView and More
Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - WearRecyclerView and More
Getting started
Summary
3
Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - Saving Data and Customizing the UI
Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - Saving Data and Customizing the UI
Wear-note-2
Summary
4
Measure Your Wellness - Sensors
Measure Your Wellness - Sensors
Conceptualizing the application
Summary
5
Measuring Your Wellness and Syncing Collected Sensor Data
Measuring Your Wellness and Syncing Collected Sensor Data
Collecting Wear sensors' data
Summary
6
Ways to Get Around Anywhere - WearMap and the GoogleAPIclient
Ways to Get Around Anywhere - WearMap and the GoogleAPIclient
Let's get started with creating WearMap
The Google API console
Configuring SQLite and saving the markers
Saving data in SQLite
Detecting your application from another device
Keeping your application active on a Wear device
Understanding fully interactive mode and lite mode
Summary
7
Ways to Get Around Anywhere - UI controls and More
Ways to Get Around Anywhere - UI controls and More
Changing marker color and customizing
Types of Maps
Best practices
Summary
8
Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Messaging API and More
Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Messaging API and More
Installing Firebase
Conceptualizing the chatting application
Summary
9
Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Notifications and More
Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Notifications and More
Firebase functions
Summary
10
Just a Face for Your Time - WatchFace and Services
Just a Face for Your Time - WatchFace and Services
The CanvasWatchFaceService class and registering your watch face
The CanvasWatchFaceService.Engine class
Writing your own watch face
Summary
11
More About Wear 2.0
More About Wear 2.0
Standalone applications
Summary

Let's get started with creating WearMap

We now know how to create a application. In case if you are following this project directly without following Wear-note application which is covered in Chapter 2, Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - WearRecyclerView and More and Chapter 3, Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - Saving Data and Customizing the UI. Please do follow the Wear-note application to learn more about standalone applications.

Let's call this project WearMapDiary, since we store the locations and details about the location. The project package address up to the developer; in this project, the package address is com.packt.wearmapdiary and the API level 25 Nougat. In the activity template, select the Google Maps Wear Activity, as follows:

Select Google Maps Wear Activity template from the activity chooser

Once the project is created, we will see the necessary configuration for the project, which includes the map fragment being added; it would have set the DismissOverlays...

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