Mastering Android Wear Application Development

Siddique Hameed, Javeed Chida

商品描述

Master the future of mobile devices in wearable technology

About This Book

  • Mastering Android Wear Development is a complete guide to wearable technology for experienced Android developers
  • Notifications, voice input, coping with round screens – all the key challenges of wearable technology are covered
  • This book describes not just how to write code for wearables, but also how to think about wearable technology and design apps that work well with the physical limitations of wearable devices

Who This Book Is For

This book is for application developers (the web, mobile, and desktop) who are interested in building new wearable apps, and mobile developers who already have apps on iTunes or Google Play Store and are looking to provide Android Wear support for their existing Android or iOS apps.

What You Will Learn

  • Understand the Wearable computing technology
  • Set up a development environment to build Android Wear apps using Android Studio
  • Master the Android Wear SDK and APIs
  • Understand the UI patterns and UX principles to build Android Wear apps
  • Work with the different form factors of wearable devices (round and square)
  • Take advantage of the sensors available on Android Wear devices
  • Develop Android Wear sample apps
  • Communicate between Android mobile and Android Wear apps
  • Get to know the steps involved in publishing Android Wear apps to the Play store

In Detail

Wearable technology is the future of mobile devices. It looks set to be a breakthrough technology, just like the iPad was before it. With the Apple Watch being widely regarded as a success, all eyes are now on Google to provide a similar device for its users. Keep your skills ahead of the competition and be one of the first to fully understand this powerful new trend. This book will give you a very solid understanding of the philosophy, thought process, development details, and methodologies involved in building well-designed, robust Android Wear applications.

We cover the advantages and disadvantages of the wearable computing paradigm and provide a good foundational knowledge for you to build practical, real-world wearable apps. You will learn about the various tools, platforms, libraries, SDKs, and technology needed to build Android Wear apps. By the end of the book, you will be an expert in building Android wearable apps.

Style and approach

This one-stop professional tutorial will teach you everything you need to know to begin designing and developing applications for this exciting new technology. Every step from development through testing to deployment is explained in depth.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

掌握可穿戴技術中移動設備的未來

關於本書
《精通Android Wear開發》是一本針對有經驗的Android開發人員的可穿戴技術完整指南。本書涵蓋了可穿戴技術的所有關鍵挑戰,包括通知、語音輸入、應對圓形螢幕等。本書不僅描述了如何為可穿戴設備編寫代碼,還介紹了如何思考可穿戴技術並設計與可穿戴設備的物理限制相適應的應用程式。

適合閱讀對象
本書適合有興趣開發新的可穿戴應用程式的應用程式開發人員(網頁、移動和桌面),以及已在iTunes或Google Play商店上有應用程式並希望為其現有的Android或iOS應用程式提供Android Wear支援的移動應用程式開發人員。

你將學到什麼
- 了解可穿戴計算技術
- 設置開發環境,使用Android Studio構建Android Wear應用程式
- 掌握Android Wear SDK和API
- 理解構建Android Wear應用程式的UI模式和UX原則
- 處理可穿戴設備的不同形狀因素(圓形和方形)
- 利用Android Wear設備上可用的傳感器
- 開發Android Wear示範應用程式
- 在Android移動應用程式和Android Wear應用程式之間進行通信
- 了解發布Android Wear應用程式到Play商店的步驟

詳細內容
可穿戴技術是移動設備的未來。它被認為是一項突破性技術,就像iPad之前一樣。隨著蘋果手錶被廣泛認為是一個成功,現在所有的目光都在Google上,期待它為用戶提供類似的設備。保持你的技能領先競爭,成為第一批完全理解這一強大新趨勢的人之一。本書將使您對設計和開發設計良好、穩健的Android Wear應用程式的哲學、思維過程、開發細節和方法获得非常扎實的理解。

我們對可穿戴計算範式的優點和缺點進行了探討,並為您建立了實用的、真實世界的可穿戴應用程式的良好基礎知識。您將學習到構建Android Wear應用程式所需的各種工具、平台、庫、SDK和技術。通過本書,您將成為構建Android可穿戴應用程式的專家。

風格和方法
這本一站式專業教程將教您一切您需要了解的,以開始設計和開發這項令人興奮的新技術的應用程式。從開發到測試再到部署的每一步都有詳細的解釋。