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Android Wear Projects

You're reading from   Android Wear Projects Create smart Android Apps for Wearables

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787123229
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ashok Kumar S Ashok Kumar S
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting You Ready to Fly - Setting Up Your Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - WearRecyclerView and More 3. Let us Help Capture What is on Your Mind - Saving Data and Customizing the UI 4. Measure Your Wellness - Sensors 5. Measuring Your Wellness and Syncing Collected Sensor Data 6. Ways to Get Around Anywhere - WearMap and the GoogleAPIclient 7. Ways to Get Around Anywhere - UI controls and More 8. Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Messaging API and More 9. Let us Chat in a Smart Way - Notifications and More 10. Just a Face for Your Time - WatchFace and Services 11. More About Wear 2.0

The CanvasWatchFaceService.Engine class

The CanvasWatchFaceService.Engine class extends the WatchFaceService.Engine class. Here, actual implementation of a watch face that draws on a canvas can be accomplished. We ought to implement onCreateEngine() to reestablish your concrete engine implementation. CanvasWatchFaceService.Engine has one public constructor with a couple of procedures to enable us to implement the watch face. How about we examine a couple of methods that we will implement in the later bit of this chapter:

  • void invalidate (): Plans a call to onDraw(Canvas, Rect) to draw the following frame. This must be approached on the main thread.

  • void onDestroy (): In this callback, we can release the hardware and other resources that we would be using to complete the watch face.

  • void onDraw(Canvas canvas, Rect bounds): Draws the watch face, all the visual components, and...
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