Android Wearable Programming
Expand on your Android development capabilities by building applications for Android Wear
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Erschienen am 30. Juli 2015
224 Seiten
978-1-78528-129-7 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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.
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Inhalt
- 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
- Customizing the Android TV user interface
- Creating the CustomHeadersFragment class
- Creating the CustomRowsFragment class
- Creating the CustomFrameLayout class
- Creating the SearchActivity class
- Creating the SearchFragment class
- Creating the custom activity layout resource file
- The Android TV user interface design guidelines
- Summary
- Index
