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Android Studio Cookbook

You're reading from   Android Studio Cookbook Design, test, and debug your apps using Android Studio

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785286186
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mike van Drongelen Mike van Drongelen
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Fullscreen wearable app

Wearable fullscreen apps do have a phone (or other handheld device) and a wearable component. The user install the handheld app on their phone and the wearable component is pushed to the paired wear device automatically.

This is a great start to exploring the interesting world of developing apps for wearables, as they are basically the same as Android phone apps. However, Google encourages you to integrate your app with Android Wear's context stream. This context stream does contain various interesting pieces of information. Think of them as incoming e-mails, the weather, the number of steps you have taken today, or your heart beat rate. We will find out more about this in the recipe about notifications.

Getting ready

To go through this recipe, you need to have Android Studio up and running. Also make sure that you have installed the latest SDK, including the Android Wear SDK. You can check whether this is the case when you open the SDK manager. (Navigate to the...

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