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Android Wearable Programming

You're reading from   Android Wearable Programming Expand on your Android development capabilities by building applications for Android Wear

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785280153
Length 224 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Steven F. Daniel Steven F. Daniel
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Preface 1. Understanding Android Wearables and Building Your First Android Wear App 2. Creating Notifications FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating, Debugging, and Packaging Wearable Apps 4. Sending and Syncing Data 5. Working with Google Glass 6. Designing and Customizing Interfaces for Android TV Index

Creating a UI for the wear activity

In this section, we need to build the user interface for the Android wearable activity section of our application. This will enable us to receive messages and images sent from the Android handheld device and have this information presented within the Android wearable watch area.

Perform the following steps:

  1. From the Project Navigator window, open the rect_activity_wear.xml file that is located in the res | layout folder, and add the following code:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <RelativeLayout   
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"   
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"   
        android:orientation="vertical"
        tools:context=".WearActivity"   
        tools:deviceIds="wear_square">
    
        <TextView
            android:layout_width...
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