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Android Wear Projects: Create smart Android Apps for Wearables

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Android Wear Projects

Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - WearRecyclerView and More

There are numerous ways to take notes. You could carry a notebook and pen in your pocket, or scribble thoughts on a piece of paper. Or, better yet, you could use your Android Wear to take notes, so one can always have a way to store thoughts even if there's not a pen and notebook nearby.

The Note-Taking App provides convenient access to store and retrieve notes within Android Wear devices. There are many Android smartphone note-taking apps, which are popular for their simplicity and elegant functionality. For the scope of a Wear device, it is necessary to keep the design simple and glanceable. Here, in this chapter, let's build a complete, functional, and persistent Note-Taking Wear application. We are calling this application Wear-Note 1:

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Getting started

We are going to use all the new components from Wear 2.0 API Support library. We will cover the following topics:

  • WearableRecyclerView
  • WearableRecyclerView adapter
  • SharedPreferences
  • BoxInsetLayout
  • Animated DelayedConfirmation

Let's get started by creating a project

You learned how to create a Wear project in the previous chapter. We will be following a similar process with a slightly different configuration. In this project, we will choose Mobile and Wear app templates and extend them with further improvements in a later chapter.

Create a project called Wear-note-1:

  1. Your package address should be unique and should follow the reverse domain standard as Android standard development practices...

Summary

In this chapter, we have explored WearablerecyclerView, DelayedConfirmationView, and writing organized code using packages. We have explored the callbacks for all the interface that we implemented in the project. It offered a clear understanding on SharedPreferences using CRUD operations, working with POJO classes, working with the RecyclerView adapter and click events, and  the necessary configuration for the Android Wear project.

 

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  • 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

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.

Who is this book for?

The book is for Android developers with a good understanding of programming and developing applications on Android, but they need not have any experience of creating Wear apps.

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

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Table of Contents

11 Chapters
Getting You Ready to Fly - Setting Up Your Development Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - WearRecyclerView and More Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - Saving Data and Customizing the UI Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Measure Your Wellness - Sensors Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Measuring Your Wellness and Syncing Collected Sensor Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Ways to Get Around Anywhere - WearMap and the GoogleAPIclient Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Ways to Get Around Anywhere - UI controls and More Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Messaging API and More Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Notifications and More Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Just a Face for Your Time - WatchFace and Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
More About Wear 2.0 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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