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

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