What this book covers
Chapter 1, Understanding Android Wearables and Building Your First Android Wear App, describes the background of the Android Wear platform architecture and shows you how to set up and configure the Android development environment, before finally looking at how to create a simple Android Wear app.
Chapter 2, Creating Notifications, introduces you to Android notifications, where you will learn how to create basic and custom notification messages. You will learn how to incorporate voice capabilities to read out the content of the notification, before learning how to group multiple notification messages using page-stacking.
Chapter 3, Creating, Debugging, and Packaging Wearable Apps, focuses on designing and creating custom watch faces to present information within the Android wearable watch area. You will learn how to effectively debug your app over Bluetooth, before finally learning how to package your wearable app so that it can be used within the handheld mobile device.
Chapter 4, Sending and Syncing Data, introduces you to the Data Layer API and the Message API frameworks, so that you can synchronize image data from the handheld device with the wearable, as well as use the Message API to communicate between the handheld and the wearable to send and receive messages.
Chapter 5, Working with Google Glass, explores how to build effective user interfaces for the Google Glass platform by creating user interfaces that display content that responds to voice input commands, before finally learning how we can access the Glass camera to take a snapshot and save the image to local storage.
Chapter 6, Designing and Customizing Interfaces for Android TV, provides you with the background and understanding of how to effectively present your app within the main user interface and how you can design your app by following the Android TV UI Patterns to help users get the content they want quickly. Also, you will learn how to create and use fragments that allow information to be presented within the Android TV interface to represent your content.
