Professional Android™ Wearables -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: CONCEPTS -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO ANDROID WEARABLES -- The Wearable Revolution -- Dismantling the Computer: The Cyborg Dream -- Software Everywhere -- Fashion is More than Ski Jackets -- Fitness -- Time -- Glasses -- Summary -- Recommended Reading -- CHAPTER 2: THE INTERNET OF THINGS -- How Wearables Relate to IoT -- The Promise of Connectivity -- Cisco's Vision -- Big Data -- Connected Devices in the Home -- Connected Devices on the Go -- Wireless Sensor Networks -- A Scenario of Use of WSN -- Bluetooth Versus ZigBee -- Smart Cities -- Summary -- Recommended Reading -- CHAPTER 3: PLATFORMS AND TECHNOLOGY -- Android Wear -- Installing the Wear SDK -- Working with the Android Wear Emulator -- Working with a Real Wear-Enabled Device -- Kick-starting Your Wear Development -- Distributing Wear Apps on Google Play -- Summary -- PART II: BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS -- CHAPTER 4: NOTIFICATIONS ON SMALL SCREENS -- About Notifications -- Pre-Wear Notification API -- Wear Notifications -- Building Notifications -- The Simple Notification -- Adding a Large Icon -- Big Text Notification -- Big Picture Notification -- Updating a Notification -- Adding Pages to Your Notifications -- Adding Actions to Your Notifications -- Adding a Standard Action -- Adding Multiple Actions -- Adding Wear-Only Actions -- Adding an Action without the Extra Page -- Extra Options -- Hiding the Application Icon -- Moving the Notification -- Setting the Scroll to the Bottom -- Removing a Notification -- Stacking Notifications -- Summary -- Recommended Reading -- CHAPTER 5: DEVELOPING WEAR APPS -- The Wear SDK -- Design Considerations -- Wearable UI Library -- Creating the Wear Project -- Editing the Gradle Files -- Loading Layouts -- Using WatchViewStub -- Using InsetActivity -- Building the User Interface.

Adding Text to Your User Interface -- CardFrame -- CardScrollView -- CardFragment -- Displaying Images -- Loading a Static Image -- Adding a Progress Update -- Handling Lists in Wear -- Using WearableListView -- The 2D Picker -- Providing Positive Feedback -- Starting the Success Feedback -- Starting the Open-on-Phone Animation -- Starting the Failure Feedback -- Summary -- Recommended Reading -- CHAPTER 6: VOICE INPUT -- Talking to Your Wrist -- Types of Voice Interaction -- Using System-Provided Voice Commands -- Just Launch an App -- Hack an Existing Intent to Launch Your App -- Launch Your App with Voice the "Right" Way -- The Wear APIs -- Data API -- Message API -- Node API -- Answering to Notifications: Capturing Your Voice into an App -- Creating a Simple App Sending a Notification -- Creating Your Empty Project -- Modifying the Gradle File -- Modifying the App's Layout -- Adding the Right Callback Function -- Getting Your App to Receive a Voice Command -- Revising the Callback Function -- Adding a Broadcast Receiver -- Modifying the App's Layout to Include a Text Field -- Adding the New Class to the Manifest File -- Adding the Reply String to the Strings File -- How It Works -- Showing the Answer on the App's Screen -- Summary -- Recommended Reading -- CHAPTER 7: PUSHING DATA -- Checking the Example -- Phone's MyActivityPhone.java -- Phone's AndroidManifest.xml -- Wearable's MyActivityWear.java -- Wearable's AndroidManifest.xml -- Wearable's Listener -- Making Your Google API Client from Scratch -- Start with a Clean Project -- The Phone's MyActivityPhone.java -- The Phone's AndroidManifest.xml -- The Phone's DataLayerListenerService -- MyActivityWear.java -- Wear's Android Manifest File -- The Listener on the Wearable's Side -- The Final Result -- Summary -- Recommended Reading -- CHAPTER 8: LOCATION-BASED SERVICES ON ANDROID WEAR.

Changing How Location Works -- Accessing the Current Location -- Enabling GPS support -- Using the New APIs -- Determining GPS Availability -- Requesting the Last Known Location -- Requesting Location Updates -- Being Picky About Location Updates -- Showing Your Street Address -- Testing Geocoder Availability -- Getting the Current Address for a Location -- Summary -- Recommended Reading -- PART III: PROJECTS -- CHAPTER 9: ANDROID WEAR AS ACTIVITY TRACKER -- What Are Activity Trackers? -- Wear as an Activity Tracker -- Step Detector -- Step Counter -- Building the WalkKeeper App -- Calculating Calories -- Creating the Project -- Selecting Gender -- Selecting Weight -- Selecting Height -- The WalkKeeper Activity -- Building the User Interface -- Connecting the User Interface -- Getting the Stored Settings -- Reading the Sensor Data -- Calculating and Updating the User Interface -- Keeping the Activity Open -- Improvements -- Summary -- CHAPTER 10: SMARTWATCH AS INPUT -- Android Wear as a Game Controller -- A Note on Sensors -- Detecting Gestures -- Building the Dice Game -- Creating the Project -- Designing a User Interface -- Android Wear GUI -- Mobile GUI -- Accessing Sensors -- Generating the Die Value -- Connecting to Mobile -- The Mobile Connection -- The Wear Connection -- Keeping the Screen On -- The Dice Game -- Improvements -- Summary -- Recommended Reading -- CHAPTER 11: BUILD YOUR OWN GLASS -- Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality -- Augmented Reality -- Google Glass -- Virtual Reality -- VR on a Phone -- Building Your Own Glasses -- Lenses -- The Simplest Box Possible -- The Simplest App -- The cardboard.jar Library -- Looking at the Code -- The Glasses' MyActivityPhone.java -- The Glasses' AndroidManifest.xml -- A Couple More Classes -- Getting Your Cardboard to Talk to Your Smartwatch -- Start from the Previous Project.

The Phone's MyActivityPhone.java -- The Phone's AndroidManifest.xml -- The Phone's DataLayerListenerService -- MyActivityWear.java -- The Wear Android Manifest File -- The Final Result -- Summary -- INDEX -- ADVERT -- EULA.