Home | Amazing | Today | Tags | Publishers | Years | Account | Search 
Beginning Android Wearables

Buy
Beginning Android Wearables, 9781484205181 (1484205189), Apress, 2015

Beginning Android Wearables gives you the skills you need to make effective apps for Android Wear-based smartwatches, fitness bracelets, connected home wearable controllers, and Google Glass. Delight your users by giving them access to the information they'll need at the tips of their fingers.

This book is very practical and contains many examples that not only show you how to write code for Glass and Android Wear, but also demonstrate how to apply this code in the context of an app.

What you’ll learn

  • Build notifications for handheld apps that are automatically shared with wearables, and learn to customize these notifications
  • Create apps that run directly on Android Wear devices and leverage the Android Wear SDK
  • Use the wearable UI library to build effective user interfaces for Android Wear
  • Use the wearable data layer API to share and synchronize data between a handheld device and Android Wear
  • Build custom watch faces for Android Wear
  • Build Glassware (that is, apps for Glass) using the Glass Development Kit (GDK)
  • Utilize location providers and orientation sensors to build contextually sensitive apps

Who this book is for

This book only requires basic knowledge of Android programming. Prior to this book, you should have read or are at least comfortable with Android after using Apress tutorials, Android Apps for Absolute Beginners or Beginning Android.

Table of Contents

Part I - Introduction

1. Introducing Android Wearables

Part II - Notifications

2. Reviewing Notifications for Android

3. Customizing Notifications for Wearables

Part III - Android Wear

4. Running Apps Directly on Android Wear

5. Android Wear UI Essentials

6. The Wearable Data Layer API

7. Creating Custom Watch Faces

Part IV - Google Glass

8. Running Apps Directly on Glass

9. Glass User Interface Essentials

10. Voice and Input

11. The Camera: Taking Pictures and Recording Video

Part V - Android Wear and Glass

12. Location and Orientation

(HTML tags aren't allowed.)

The Future of Mobile Communications: Awaiting the Third Generation
The Future of Mobile Communications: Awaiting the Third Generation
The aim of this book is to investigate the prospects for mobile communications in the new millennium. In effect, this boils down to a key issue: Will the so-called third generation of mobile (alternatively, wireless or cellular) technology turn out to be a success or a failure? This is no minor issue since telecommunications is one of the...
Compiler Design: Syntactic and Semantic Analysis
Compiler Design: Syntactic and Semantic Analysis

While compilers for high-level programming languages are large complex software systems, they have particular characteristics that differentiate them from other software systems. Their functionality is almost completely well-defined – ideally there exist complete precise descriptions of the source and target languages. Additional...

ADO.NET in a Nutshell
ADO.NET in a Nutshell
ADO.NET in a Nutshell is the most complete and concise source of ADO.NET information available. Besides being a valuable reference, this book covers a variety of issues that programmers face when developing web applications or web services that rely on database access. Most examples use Microsoft's C# language. The...

Introducing AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010
Introducing AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010

Two civil engineering experts present a focused, no-nonsense introduction to Autodesk's civil engineering software

AutoCAD Civil 3D is the industry-leading civil engineering software, and this well-structured resource features focused discussions and practical exercises to help you quickly learn its core features. Reinforced with...

Culture on drugs: Narco-cultural studies of high modernity
Culture on drugs: Narco-cultural studies of high modernity

Never has a reconsideration of the place of drugs in our culture been more urgent than it is today. Culture on drugs addresses themes such as the nature of consciousness, language and the body, alienation, selfhood, the image and virtuality and the nature/culture dyad and everyday life. It then explores how these are expressed in the work of...

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Mobile Development For Dummies
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Mobile Development For Dummies
Learn to build and optimize attractive, functional web sites for smartphones

Today, mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one. Skill in developing web sites that work on mobile devices is in demand, and this friendly, step-by-step guide shows how to build and optimize sites using HTML5 and other...

©2021 LearnIT (support@pdfchm.net) - Privacy Policy