Android Wear Projects: Create smart Android Apps for Wearables - Softcover

Ashok Kumar S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1787123227 ISBN 13: 9781787123229

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Key Features

• Create real-time Android Wear apps from scratch and become a pro Android Wear Developer
• Learn to create apps specially dedicated to the Android Wear platform
• Design custom Wear UIs and create interactive Watch faces

Book Description

Android Wear Projects is your opportunity to step into the exciting new world of Android Wear app development. This book will help you to master the skills in Android Wear programming and give you a complete insight on wear app development.

You will create five different Android Wear apps just like the most popular Android Wear apps. You will create a To-do list, a city maps app, a Wear messenger, Wear fitness tracker and Watch face. While you create these apps you will learn to create custom notifications, receive voice inputs in notifications, add pages to notifications and stack notifications. You will see how to create custom wear app layouts, the custom UIs specially designed for Wear. You will learn to handle and manage data and syncing data with other devices, create interactive Watch faces and also ensure the safety and security of your Wear apps by testing and securing your apps before you deploy them on the app store.

What you will learn

• Design and build Wear apps.
• Learn how to use offline storage in Wear apps.
• Understand sensors and how to work with them
• Work with standalone applications of the wear 2.0 API.
• Create a map application for Android Wear devices
• Write a watch face and understand more about Wear 2.0
• Work with firebase realtime database and firebase functions
• Create a chatting application that has wear companion app

About the Author

Ashok Kumar S is an Android developer residing in Bangalore, India. A gadget enthusiast, he thrives on innovating and exploring the latest gizmos in the tech space.

He has been developing Android applications for all Google related technologies. He is a Google certified Udacity Nano degree holder.

A strong believer in spirituality, he heavily contributes to the open source community as a e-spiritual ritual to improve his e-karma. He regularly conducts workshops about Android application development in local engineering colleges and schools. He also organizes multiple tech events at his organization and is a regular attendee of all the conferences that happen on Android in the silicon valley of India.

He also has a YouTube channel, called AndroidABCD, where he discusses all aspects of Android development, including quick tutorials.

Table of Contents

1. Getting you ready to fly, Setting up your development environment
2. Lets help capturing what's on your mind, WearListView and more
3. Lets help capturing what's on your mind, Saving data and customizing UI
4. Measure your wellness, Sensors
5. Measure your wellness, Syncing collected sensor data
6. Ways to get around anywhere, WearMap and GoogleAPIclient
7. Ways to get around anywhere, UI controls and more
8. Lets chat in a smart way, Messaging API and more
9. Lets chat in a smart way, Notifications and more
10. Just a face for your time, WatchFace and services
11. More about Wear 2.0

About this title

About the Author

Ashok Kumar S is an Android developer residing in Bangalore, India. A gadget enthusiast, he thrives on innovating and exploring the latest gizmos in the tech space.

He has been developing Android applications for all Google related technologies. He is a Google certified Udacity Nano degree holder.

A strong believer in spirituality, he heavily contributes to the open source community as a e-spiritual ritual to improve his e-karma. He regularly conducts workshops about Android application development in local engineering colleges and schools. He also organizes multiple tech events at his organization and is a regular attendee of all the conferences that happen on Android in the silicon valley of India.

He also has a YouTube channel, called AndroidABCD, where he discusses all aspects of Android development, including quick tutorials.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787123227
• ISBN 13: 9781787123229
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416