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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

Best practices


Android Wear is very for quick and glanceable information. The most requested feature in wear is map in the latest Google Play services, updates for Google Maps came to Android Wear, which means you can develop the map application ideally, like how we develop for mobile applications there is no change in the process for developing wear map application. This means best-in-class development experience with just a few lines of code and configuration.

Let's talk about some common use cases for Android Wear maps applications and how to implement the best map application experience:

  • One of the most common use cases is to simply display a map; since the wear has a small display, we might have to display the entire map in fullscreen. Your application might need to show a marker to denote the landmark. Needs to allow users to pan around the map and find places on the map.
  • Android Wear reserves the gesture of swiping from left to right for dismissing the current application. If you do...
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