Android Wear Projects

Book Description

Key Features

• Create real-time Android Wear apps from scratch and become a pro Android Wear Developer
• Learn to create apps specially dedicated to the Android Wear platform
• Design custom Wear UIs and create interactive Watch faces

Book Description

Android Wear Projects is your opportunity to step into the exciting new world of Android Wear app development. This book will help you to master the skills in Android Wear programming and give you a complete insight on wear app development.

You will create five different Android Wear apps just like the most popular Android Wear apps. You will create a To-do list, a city maps app, a Wear messenger, Wear fitness tracker and Watch face. While you create these apps you will learn to create custom notifications, receive voice inputs in notifications, add pages to notifications and stack notifications. You will see how to create custom wear app layouts, the custom UIs specially designed for Wear. You will learn to handle and manage data and syncing data with other devices, create interactive Watch faces and also ensure the safety and security of your Wear apps by testing and securing your apps before you deploy them on the app store.

What you will learn

• Design and build Wear apps.
• Learn how to use offline storage in Wear apps.
• Understand sensors and how to work with them
• Work with standalone applications of the wear 2.0 API.
• Create a map application for Android Wear devices
• Write a watch face and understand more about Wear 2.0
• Work with firebase realtime database and firebase functions
• Create a chatting application that has wear companion app

About the Author

Ashok Kumar S is an Android developer residing in Bangalore, India. A gadget enthusiast, he thrives on innovating and exploring the latest gizmos in the tech space.

He has been developing Android applications for all Google related technologies. He is a Google certified Udacity Nano degree holder.

A strong believer in spirituality, he heavily contributes to the open source community as a e-spiritual ritual to improve his e-karma. He regularly conducts workshops about Android application development in local engineering colleges and schools. He also organizes multiple tech events at his organization and is a regular attendee of all the conferences that happen on Android in the silicon valley of India.

He also has a YouTube channel, called AndroidABCD, where he discusses all aspects of Android development, including quick tutorials.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Getting you ready to fly, Setting up your development environment
Chapter 2. Lets help capturing what’s on your mind, WearListView and more
Chapter 3. Lets help capturing what’s on your mind, Saving data and customizing UI
Chapter 4. Measure your wellness, Sensors
Chapter 5. Measure your wellness, Syncing collected sensor data
Chapter 6. Ways to get around anywhere, WearMap and GoogleAPIclient
Chapter 7. Ways to get around anywhere, UI controls and more
Chapter 8. Lets chat in a smart way, Messaging API and more
Chapter 9. Lets chat in a smart way, Notifications and more
Chapter 10. Just a face for your time, WatchFace and services
Chapter 11. More about Wear 2.0

中文：

书名：Android Wear Projects

Key Features

• 从头开始创建实时Android Wear应用程序，成为一名专业的Android Wear开发者
• 学习创建专门针对Android Wear平台的应用程序
• 设计定制穿戴用户界面并创建交互式手表

图书描述

Android Wear项目是您进入令人兴奋的Android Wear应用程序开发新世界的机会。这本书将帮助你掌握Android Wear编程的技能，并让你对穿戴应用程序的开发有一个完整的洞察。

您将创建五个不同的Android Wear应用程序，就像最受欢迎的Android Wear应用程序一样。你将创建一个待办事项清单，一个城市地图应用程序，一个穿戴信使，穿戴健身跟踪器和Watch Face。在创建这些应用程序的过程中，您将学习创建自定义通知、接收通知中的语音输入、向通知添加页面以及堆叠通知。您将看到如何创建定制的穿戴应用布局，这是专门为Wear设计的定制用户界面。你将学会处理和管理数据，并与其他设备同步数据，创建交互式Watch Faces，并在将应用程序部署到应用程序商店之前，通过测试和保护应用程序来确保穿戴应用程序的安全。

你将学到什么

• 设计和构建Wear应用程序。
• 了解如何在Wear应用程序中使用脱机存储。
• 了解传感器以及如何使用它们
• 使用Ware 2.0 API的独立应用程序。
• 为Android Wear设备创建地图应用程序
• 写一张手表脸，了解更多关于Wear 2.0的知识
• 使用FireBase实时数据库和FireBase功能
• 创建具有穿戴伴侣应用程序的聊天应用程序

关于作者

Ashok Kumar S 是一位居住在印度班加罗尔的Android开发人员。作为一名电子产品发烧友，他热衷于创新和探索科技领域的最新小工具。

他一直在为所有谷歌相关技术开发Android应用程序。他是谷歌认证的Udacity Nano学位持有者。

作为一名灵性的坚定信徒，他为开源社区做出了巨大贡献，将其作为一种电子精神仪式来改善他的电子业力。他经常在当地的工程学院和学校举办关于Android应用开发的研讨会。他还在他的组织中组织了多个科技活动，并定期参加在印度硅谷举行的所有Android会议。

他还有一个名为Android ABCD的YouTube频道，在那里他讨论了Android开发的方方面面，包括快速教程。

目录表

第1章：让您做好准备，设置开发环境
第二章：让我们来帮助你了解你的想法，WearListView等等
第3章：让我们帮助您了解自己的想法，保存数据和定制用户界面
第四章：测量你的健康状况，传感器
第5章.测量你的健康状况，同步收集的传感器数据
第6章.WearMap和GoogleAPI客户端的出行方式
第7章.在任何地方使用的方法、用户界面控件等
第八章.让我们以智能的方式聊天、消息传递API和更多内容
Chapter 9. Lets chat in a smart way, Notifications and more
第十章：为你的时间、手表和服务做一张脸
Chapter 11. More about Wear 2.0