Android wearable programming : expand on your android development capabilities by building applications for android wear / Steven F. Daniel ; cover image by Evelyn Lam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daniel, Steven F., author.

Contributor:

Lam, Evelyn, cover designer.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Android (Electronic resource).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Wearable computers--Programming.

Wearable computers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Daniel Steven F. : Steven F. Daniel is the CEO and founder of GENIESOFT STUDIOS, a software development company based in Melbourne, Victoria, that focuses primarily on developing games and business applications for the iOS, Android, and Mac OS X platforms. He is an experienced software engineer with more than 17 years' experience and is extremely passionate about making people employable by helping them use their existing skills in iOS, Android, and Xamarin to get the job done. He is a member of the SQL Server Special Interest Group (SQLSIG), CocoaHeads, and the Java Community. He was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at SoftMpire Pty Ltd. , a company focused primarily on developing business applications for the iOS and Android platforms.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Reviewers""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Understanding Android Wearables and Building Your First Android Wear App""; ""Introducing Android wearables""; ""Understanding the Android Wear architecture""; ""Setting up an Android development environment""; ""Installing the Android Wear support library""; ""Setting up and configuring the Android (AVD) Emulator""; ""Building a simple Android wearable application""; ""Creating the mobile activity component""

""Creating the Android Wear activity component""""Summary""; ""Chapter 2: Creating Notifications""; ""Introducing Android notifications""; ""Creating a basic notification for wearables""; ""Specifying the form factors""; ""Adding and customizing a blank activity""; ""Adding dependencies to Gradle scripts""; ""Creating a custom notification for wearables""; ""Receiving voice input within a notification""; ""Receiving multiple notifications through a process called page stacking""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3: 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""; ""Chapter 4: 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""; ""Chapter 5: Working with Google Glass""; ""Installing the Glass Development Kit preview""; ""Installing the Google USB drivers for Windows""; ""Creating and building a Google Glass application""; ""Setting the theme for the Google Glass app""; ""Configuring the project to run on Google Glass""; ""Creating the custom menu resource file""

""Configuring the AndroidManifests file""""Creating the custom camera layout resource file""; ""Incorporating a voice input within Google Glass""; ""Accessing camera through Google Glass""; ""Incorporating the Google Maps API with Google Glass""; ""Modifying the Google Glass main activity UI""; ""Launching the app within Google Glass""; ""An introduction to GDK and the Google Mirror API""; ""The Mirror API playground""; ""The Google Glassware principle design guidelines""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 6: Designing and Customizing Interfaces for Android TV""

""Creating and building an Android TV application""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 12, 2015).

ISBN:

9781785281297

1785281291

OCLC:

916530570