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Android Wear Projects

You're reading from   Android Wear Projects Create smart Android Apps for Wearables

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787123229
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ashok Kumar S Ashok Kumar S
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting You Ready to Fly - Setting Up Your Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - WearRecyclerView and More 3. Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - Saving Data and Customizing the UI 4. Measure Your Wellness - Sensors 5. Measuring Your Wellness and Syncing Collected Sensor Data 6. Ways to Get Around Anywhere - WearMap and the GoogleAPIclient 7. Ways to Get Around Anywhere - UI controls and More 8. Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Messaging API and More 9. Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Notifications and More 10. Just a Face for Your Time - WatchFace and Services 11. More About Wear 2.0

Writing your own watch face

Android Studio is the primary tool that we should use to write Wear apps for numerous reasons; since we have already configured our development environment for Wear 2.0 development, it shouldn't be a challenge. Let's fire up Android Studio and create a Wear project.

In Activity chooser, select Add No Activity. Since a watch face is a service, we don't need activity:

We have read in the previous section that we will be extending the class to CanvasWatchFaceService, where watch face is being drawn on a canvas, and another class is CanvasWatchFaceService.Engine, where we will work on the actual implementation of the watch face and more important methods that we have discussed. It will help us to achieve the necessary setup for the watch face.
Now, let's create a class file called PacktWatchFace in the package.

The PacktWatchFace class...

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