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Published inJul 2017
Reading LevelIntermediate
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ISBN-139781787123229
Edition1st Edition
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Ashok Kumar S
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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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Let's get started with creating WearMap

We now know how to create a application. In case if you are following this project directly without following Wear-note application which is covered in Chapter 2, Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - WearRecyclerView and More and Chapter 3, Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - Saving Data and Customizing the UI. Please do follow the Wear-note application to learn more about standalone applications.

Let's call this project WearMapDiary, since we store the locations and details about the location. The project package address up to the developer; in this project, the package address is com.packt.wearmapdiary and the API level 25 Nougat. In the activity template, select the Google Maps Wear Activity, as follows:

Select Google Maps Wear Activity template from the activity chooser

Once the project is created, we will see the necessary configuration for the project, which includes the map fragment being added; it would have set the DismissOverlays...

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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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