Beginning Android Wearables, 1st ed.
With Android Wear and Google Glass SDKs

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.

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

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.