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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
Languages
Author (1):
Ashok Kumar S Ashok Kumar S
Profile icon Ashok Kumar S

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
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

Writing your own watch face


Android Studio is the primary tool that we use to write Wear apps for numerous reasons; since we have already configured our development environment for Wear 2.0 development, it shouldn't be a challenge. Let's fire up Android Studio and create a Wear project.

In Activity chooser, select Add No Activity. Since a watch face is a service, we don't need activity:

We have read in the previous section that we will be extending the class to CanvasWatchFaceService, where watch face is being drawn on a canvas, and another class is CanvasWatchFaceService.Engine, where we will work on the actual implementation of the watch face and more methods that we have discussed. It will help us to achieve the necessary setup for the watch face. Now, let's create a class file called PacktWatchFace in the package.

The PacktWatchFace class will extend to the CanvasWatchFaceService class:

After creating the class file, extend it to the CanvasWatchFaceService class; this is the service class...

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