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Developing for Android Wear By : Devavrata Sharma
Agenda : -
Introduction Walkthrough with Android wear Setup the environment Development for Android wear Packaging of the app for publishing Do’s and Don’ts What all new in Android wear 2.0 Q&A
Introduction -
Emerging market of wear technology and devices with $8 billion and more Concentrated traffic from Notifications Helps you to do better time management.
Major players are Motorola, LG, Samsung, Sony, Fossil, Asus and Tag Heuer
Walkthrough with Android wear - Android wear design Majors - How the wear app gets installed on you the device. -How to interact with Android wear device -Swipe gestures -Voice commands
Android wear design majors :
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Suggest - context stream
Android wear design majors :
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Demand - The Cue cards
Setup the Environment -Update your SDK tools to version 23.0.0 or higher - Update your SDK with Android 4.4W.2 (API 20) or higher
- Setup an Android wear virtual device or Android wear
device
- Download Android wear app from Play store on your phone - Command to connect phone with Android wear virtual device adb -d forward tcp:5601 tcp:5601
App development for Android wear -
Showing notifications Extending actions only for wearable Android wear specific app
Notifications : final int notificationId = 1; final NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this) .setSmallIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher) .setContentTitle("Hello Wearable!") .setContentText("Sample text");
NotificationManagerCompat.from(context).notify(notificationId,notificationBuilder.build());
Notifications :
Notification with wearable functionalities : - Wearable only actions - Voice Commands - Extra pages
Wearable only actions: final NotificationCompat.WearableExtender wearableExtender = new NotificationCompat.WearableExtender(); wearableExtender.addAction(new NotificationCompat.Action(R.drawable. ic_navigation,"Nearest Shop", navigationIntent)); notificationBuilder.extend(wearableExtender);
Voice Commands: final RemoteInput remoteInput = new RemoteInput.Builder (EXTRA_VOICE_REPLY).setLabel("Pls give feedback").setChoices(this. getResources().getStringArray(R.array.reply_choices)).build(); notificationBuilder.extend(new NotificationCompat.WearableExtender(). addAction(new NotificationCompat.Action.Builder(R.drawable. ic_voice_search,"Reply", navigationIntent).addRemoteInput(remoteInput). build()));
Extra Pages : -
Create notifications and add them to wearableExtender.
Packaging of the App for Publishing ● ●
You need to package wearable app inside handheld app You should give dependency of wearable app inside mobile’s app build.gradle file
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dependencies { MyFirstWearApp project(':wearable') }
-Include all the permission declared in the wearable manifest file to mobile module manifest file. - Ensure common version number and package name for both modules.
Do’s -
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Design for big gestures Design it in a way, so that user should not take more than 5 seconds to use. Otherwise you should reconsider the design. Do one thing at a time. Keep the long running logic on your mobile side.
Dont’s -
Do not overload operation for wear apps Do not demand unnecessary data from handheld devices Stay careful about interactive and ambient mode
Android Wear 2.0 preview -
System UI Standalone Apps Real Time walking, bicycling and Running recognition.
System UI: -
Material design for wearable Darker UI Watch hardware button works like a back button You can reply by voice, emojis and keyboard
Standalone Apps : -
Tethered + Untethered Apps run on watch even when your phone is not with you Doze Handle notifications completely from wearable device. Direct download from play store
Real Time walking, bicycling and Running recognition.
Here you can find more : DevBytes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5cne6vKeo&index=9&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-kIrPiq098QH9dOle-fLef https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/apps/creating.html
Q&A
Thank you. @DevavrataSharma
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