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Beginning Android Wearables

With Android Wear and Google Glass SDKs

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  • © 2015

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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.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Notifications

  3. Android Wear

  4. Google Glass

  5. Android Wear and Glass

About this book

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.

About the author

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

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