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Mastering Android Wear Application Development

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881725
Pages 224 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Siddique Hameed Siddique Hameed
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Javeed Chida Javeed Chida
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Mastering Android Wear Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface
1. Introduction to Wearable Computing 2. Setting up the Development Environment 3. Developing Android Wear Applications 4. Developing Watch UI 5. Synchronizing Data 6. Contextual Notifications 7. Voice Interactions, Sensors, and Tracking 8. Creating Custom UI 9. Material Design 10. Watch Faces 11. Advanced Features and Concepts 12. Publishing Apps to Google Play

Let's build an Android Wear app


So far, we've been looking at the Skeleton wearable sample app that we cloned from Google's GitHub repository. We familiarized ourselves with how the skeleton app was structured and got some ideas of how the code and components are structured.

Now, it's time for us to build our own Android Wear app. We'll be using Android Studio to create this app from scratch.

From the Android Studio welcome screen, click on Start a new Android Studio project option as shown in the following screenshot:

Configure the project with an application name, domain, and package name that suits your system settings:

In the Target Android Devices screen, uncheck the Phone and Tablet option and make sure you select the Wear option. Android Studio will automatically select the safest minimum SDK needed to create the app based on the SDKs and system images you have installed on the system.

We're going to the default settings that were selected by Android Studio for this app:

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