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Android Wearable Programming

Expand on your Android development capabilities by building applications for Android Wear

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|Sep 2025
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    Book Description

    If you are an Android developer who wants to learn how to build applications for the Android Wear platform, then this is the book for you. This book only requires a basic knowledge of Android programming. Familiarity with development IDEs such as Android Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, or Eclipse will be helpful.

    What you will learn

    • Get introduced to the Android Wear and Google Glass SDK
    • Create your own basic and custom notifications for Android Wear by using Android notifications
    • Develop custom Android wearable watch faces and debug them over Bluetooth prior to packaging
    • Deploy your application to the handheld device or the Google Play Store
    • Develop apps that have the ability to send and receive binary blobs of data from the handheld device to the wearable device
    • Create custom layouts for the Android TV platform conforming to the Android TV design principles
    • Build effective user interfaces for the Google Glass platform
    • Incorporate voice and input features into your Android wearable app

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Understanding Android Wearable?s and Building your first app
    2. Creating Notifications
    3. Creating, Debugging and Packaging Wearable Apps
    4. Sending and Synching Data
    5. Working with Google Glass
    6. Designing and Customizing Interfaces for Android TV
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-129-7
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 224