Pro Android Wearables: Building Apps for Smartwatches

by Wallace Jackson

Overview

Pro Android Wearables details how to design and build Android Wear apps for new and unique Android wearable device types, such as Google Android smartwatches, which use the new WatchFaces API, as well as health-monitoring features and other cool features such as altimeters and compasses. It's time to take your Android 5 Wear application development skills and experience to the next level and get exposure to a whole new world of hardware.

As smartwatches continue to grab major IoT headlines, there is a growing interest in building Android apps that run on these wearables, which are now being offered by dozens of major manufacturers. This means more revenue earning opportunity for today's indie app developers. Additionally, this book provides new media design concepts which relate to using media assets, as well as how to optimize Wear applications for low-power, single-core, dual-core or quad-core CPUs, and how to use the IntelliJ Android Studio IDE, and the Android device emulators for popular new wearable devices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430265504
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	06/29/2015
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	580
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Wallace Jackson has been writing for leading multimedia publications about his work in new media content development since the advent of Multimedia Producer Magazine nearly two decades ago, when he wrote about computer processor architectures for centerfolds (removable "mini-issue" insert) distributed at SIGGRAPH. Since then, Wallace has written for several other publications about his work in interactive 3D and new media advertising campaign design, including 3D Artist,Desktop Publishers Journal, CrossMedia, AVvideo and Kiosk Magazine.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Android Wearables

2. Setting Up an Android 5 Wearables Application Development Workstation

3. A Foundation for Android Wearables

4. Exploring Android Studio

5. Android Virtual Devices

6. Introduction to Android Watch Faces Design

7. Program Watch Faces for Wear

8. A Watch Faces Timing Engine

9. Implement a WatchFaces Engine

10. WatchFaces Vector Design

11. WatchFaces Bitmap Design

12. WatchFaces Digital Imaging

13. Watch Face Configuration Companion Activity

14. Watch Face Configuration Companion Activity Utility and Wearable API

15. Wearables Application Testing

16. Wear API Deprecation

17. The Future of Android IoT APIs