Android Wear Projects

图书信息

作者	Ashok Kumar S
出版社	Packt Publishing
ISBN	9781787127319
出版时间	2017-07-31
字数	41.0万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,电脑,网络

读书简介

A fun way to create interesting and cool apps for your Wearable device using Android programming. About This Book ? 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 Who This Book Is For The book is for Android developers with a good understanding of programming and developing applications on Android, but they need not have any experience of creating Wear apps. 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 In Detail 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. Style and approach This book will take a project based tutorial style approach where every chapter will create a separate android Wear app and highlight different features of android Wear apps.

目录

Title Page

Copyright

Android Wear Projects

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Why subscribe?

Customer Feedback

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

Getting You Ready to Fly - Setting Up Your Development Environment

Android Wear design principles

Defining layouts

Creating lists

Exploring UI components for Wear devices

Showing confirmations

DelayedConfirmationView

Wear navigation and actions

Navigation drawer

Action drawer

Multifunction buttons

Setting up a development environment for Wear development

Installing Android Studio

Creating your first Android Wear application

Creating your first Wear project

Creating a Wear emulator

Working with actual Wear device

Debugging over Wi-Fi

Enable Bluetooth debugging

Summary

Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - WearRecyclerView and More

Android Wear design principles

Defining layouts

Creating lists

Exploring UI components for Wear devices

Showing confirmations

DelayedConfirmationView

Wear navigation and actions

Navigation drawer

Action drawer

Multifunction buttons

Setting up a development environment for Wear development

Installing Android Studio

Creating your first Android Wear application

Creating your first Wear project

Creating a Wear emulator

Working with actual Wear device

Debugging over Wi-Fi

Enable Bluetooth debugging

Summary

Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - Saving Data and Customizing the UI

Wear-note-2

Advantages of Realm

Disadvantages of Realm

Re-structuring the code and dependencies

Working on the Wear User Interface

Let's get started working on the Wear-note-2 user interface

Better fonts for better reading

Writing custom layouts for better UX

Summary

Measure Your Wellness - Sensors

Conceptualizing the application

Enlisting the available sensors in Wear

Accuracy of sensors

Battery consumption

Doze mode

Creating a project

Adding a drawer menu

Creating a navigation drawer adapter

Creating fragments

Summary

Measuring Your Wellness and Syncing Collected Sensor Data

Collecting Wear sensors' data

Completed WearStepService class

Switching back to the Wear module

Conceptualizing the application

Recyclerview Adapter

Completed HistoryActivity Class

Summary

Ways to Get Around Anywhere - WearMap and the GoogleAPIclient

Let's get started with creating WearMap

The Google API console

The Google API client

Configuring the project for functionalities

Getting users' location information with the help of GoogleApiClient

GeoSpatial data using GeoCoder

Infowindow adapter

Custom DialogFragment for taking notes about the location

Configuring SQLite and saving the markers

Schema and contract

Saving data in SQLite

Difference between a standalone map and mobile-synced map application

Identifying the app as standalone

Sharing data between a Wear app and phone app

Detecting your application from another device

Specifying capability names to detect your apps

Detecting and guiding the user to install a corresponding phone app

Keeping your application active on a Wear device

Configuring WAKE_LOCK for your application

Understanding fully interactive mode and lite mode

Summary

Ways to Get Around Anywhere - UI controls and More

Changing marker color and customizing

Dragging the marker and updating the location

InfoWindow click event

The UI controls

Types of Maps

Streetview in Wear application

Best practices

Summary

Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Messaging API and More

Installing Firebase

Conceptualizing the chatting application

Understanding Data Layer

Data Layer events

Capability API

Mobile app implementation

Wear App implementation

Summary

Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Notifications and More

Firebase functions

Messaging service class

Summary

Just a Face for Your Time - WatchFace and Services

The CanvasWatchFaceService class and registering your watch face

The CanvasWatchFaceService.Engine class

Writing your own watch face

Handling tap events and gestures

Supporting different form factors

Understanding watch face elements and initializing them

Common issues

Interactive watch faces

Summary

More About Wear 2.0

Standalone applications

Identifying an app as a standalone

Standalone apps storage

Detecting wear app on another device

Advertise capability

Retrieving the nodes with the required capability

Detecting and guiding the user to install a phone app

Getting just the important information

Cloud messaging

Complications API

Complication data provider

Adding complications to a watch face

Receiving data and rendering complications

Allowing users to choose data providers

User interactions with complications

Permissions for complication data

Opening the provider chooser

Understanding different navigation for wear

Implementation

Single-page navigation drawer

Notifications in wear 2.0

Inline action

Expanded notifications

Best practices for expanded notifications

Bridging mode for notifications

Wear 2.0 input method framework

Invoking input method for wear

Wrist gestures

Best practices for using gestures in apps

Authentication protocols

App distribution

Publish your first wear app

Summary