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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

Installing Firebase


For Firebase, perform the steps:

  1. Visit the Firebase console https://console.firebase.google.com:
  1. Choose Add project in the console and fill the necessary information about the project. After the project is added, you will see the following screen:
  1. The get started page helps you set up the project for different platforms. Let's choose the second option, which Add Firebase to your Android app:
  1. Add the project package name and, for further security purposes, you can add the SHA-1 fingerprint, but that is optional. Now register the app:
  1. Download the config file. The google-services.json file will have all the important configuration for the app and it in the app directory of your project structure.

Now, let's fire up Android Studio and create the project:

Make sure the package name is the as the one mentioned in the Firebase console.

Let's choose the targeted platforms that are both phone and Wear:

Now, add Empty Activity to the activity chooser:

Select Blank Wear Activity in...

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