Beginning Android Wearables

With Android Wear and Google Glass SDKs

Andres Calvo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

512 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed.
Apress (Verlag)
978-1-4842-0518-1 (ISBN)

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Beginning Android Wearables gives you the skills you need to make effective apps for Android Wear-based smartwatches, fitness bracelets, connected home wearable controllers, and Google Glass. Delight your users by giving them access to the information they'll need at the tips of their fingers.

This book is very practical and contains many examples that not only show you how to write code for Glass and Android Wear, but also demonstrate how to apply this code in the context of an app.

Andres Calvo is a software engineer who has worked with wearable and mobile devices for over five years. He works for Ball Aerospace as a contractor at Air Force Research Laboratory, where he acquired an interest (read: obsession) with usability and user experience. Andres is fascinated by the potential that wearables including Glass and Android Wear have to provide unprecedented user experiences. During his free time, Andres develops applications for Android, Glass, and Android Wear both for fun and as a freelancer. He has received bachelor degrees in computer science and computer engineering from the University of Dayton. Visit his blog at http://ocddevelopers.com and contact him at andresacalvo@gmail.com

Part I - Introduction 1. Introducing Android Wearables Part II - Notifications 2. Reviewing Notifications for Android 3. Customizing Notifications for Wearables Part III - Android Wear 4. Running Apps Directly on Android Wear 5. Android Wear UI Essentials 6. The Wearable Data Layer API 7. Creating Custom Watch Faces Part IV - Google Glass 8. Running Apps Directly on Glass 9. Glass User Interface Essentials 10. Voice and Input 11. The Camera: Taking Pictures and Recording Video Part V - Android Wear and Glass 12. Location and Orientation

Zusatzinfo	176 Illustrations, black and white; XXIII, 512 p. 176 illus.
Verlagsort	Berkley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Mobile- / App-Entwicklung
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Smartphones / Tablets
Schlagworte	Android Apps • Android (Betriebssystem); Spezielle Anwendungsbereiche
ISBN-10	1-4842-0518-9 / 1484205189
ISBN-13	978-1-4842-0518-1 / 9781484205181
Zustand	Neuware