Preface
Android Wear is becoming extremely popular, and offers a great opportunity for developers to learn how to build applications for the Android Wear platform, which is a special version of the core Android OS, and has been tailored for wearable computing devices such as smartwatches. These wearable devices come with a brand new user interface, which is the result of Google working with their customers to understand how they use their phones today and how they can be more in touch with their environment.
Android Wearable Programming provides a practical approach to developing and building Android apps using the Android Studio Integrated Development Environment. The new Android Studio IDE has introduced a specialized development environment that has been welcomed by the emerging Android community. This IDE is perfect to develop Android Wear apps because of the tight integration it has with the Wear development APIs, and also the streamlined build cycle with Gradle that helps to minimize a lot of manual configuration that the developer would need to do in other IDEs.
In this book, I have tried my best to keep the code simple and easy to understand by providing a step-by-step approach, with lots of screenshots at each step to make it easier to follow. You will soon be mastering the different aspects of Android Wear programming, as well as the technology and skills needed to create your own applications for the Android Wear platform.
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