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Android Wear Projects

You're reading from Android Wear Projects

Product type Book

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787123229

Pages 416 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Android Development

Author (1):

Ashok Kumar S

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Getting You Ready to Fly - Setting Up Your Development Environment

Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - WearRecyclerView and More

Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - Saving Data and Customizing the UI

Measure Your Wellness - Sensors

Measuring Your Wellness and Syncing Collected Sensor Data

Ways to Get Around Anywhere - WearMap and the GoogleAPIclient

Ways to Get Around Anywhere - UI controls and More

Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Messaging API and More

Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Notifications and More

Just a Face for Your Time - WatchFace and Services

More About Wear 2.0

Summary

In this chapter, we have explored the fundamental understanding of designing watch faces and we have built a digital watch face. We have understood how the CanvasWatchFaceService class helps in building watch faces and we have also seen the following watch face-related concepts:

The CanvasWatchFaceService class
The canvasWatchFaceService.Engine method
Registering watch face in a Wear module manifest
Handling tap gesture
Different form factors
Adding bitmap images to the watch face
Watch face elements
Common issues
Interactive watch faces

Making watch faces is an excellent artistic engineering, including what data we should express in the watch face and how time and date data is being displayed. The ComplicationsAPI is new in Wear 2.0. Let's discuss that in the next chapter along with a few advanced concepts.

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Authors (1)

Ashok Kumar S

Ashok Kumar S has been working in the mobile development domain from about eight years. He is a Google certified engineer, speaker at global scale conferences and he also runs a youtube channel (AndroidABCD) for Android developers. He is an early Firebase adopter since before Google acquired Firebase. He is Computer Science and Engineering graduate who is completely passionate about innovation in technology. He contributes to open source heavily to improve his e-karma. Ashok has also written a book on Wear OS programming through a project approach.

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