CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION
   1. Who This Book Is For
   2. What This Book Covers
   3. How This Book Is Structured
   4. What You Need to Use This Book
   5. Conventions
   6. Source Code
   7. Errata
   8. p2p.wrox.com
2. PART I CONCEPTS
   1. 1 INTRODUCTION TO ANDROID WEARABLES
      1. The Wearable Revolution
      2. Dismantling the Computer: the Cyborg Dream
      3. Software Everywhere
      4. Fashion Is More than Ski Jackets
      5. Fitness
      6. Time
      7. Glasses
      8. Summary
      9. Recommended Reading
   2. 2 THE INTERNET OF THINGS
      1. How Wearables Relate to IoT
      2. The Promise of Connectivity
      3. Connected Devices in the Home
      4. Connected Devices on the Go
      5. Wireless Sensor Networks
      6. Smart Cities
      7. Summary
      8. Recommended Reading
   3. 3 PLATFORMS AND TECHNOLOGY
      1. Android Wear
      2. Installing the Wear SDK
      3. Working with the Android Wear Emulator
      4. Working with a Real Wear-Enabled Device
      5. Kick-starting Your Wear Development
      6. Distributing Wear Apps on Google Play
      7. Summary
3. PART II BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS
   1. 4 NOTIFICATIONS ON SMALL SCREENS
      1. About Notifications
      2. Building Notifications
      3. Stacking Notifications
      4. Summary
      5. Recommended Reading
   2. 5 DEVELOPING WEAR APPS
      1. The Wear SDK
      2. Creating the Wear Project
      3. Building the User Interface
      4. Providing Positive Feedback
      5. Summary
      6. Recommended Reading
   3. 6 VOICE INPUT
      1. Talking to Your Wrist
      2. Types of Voice Interaction
      3. Using System-Provided Voice Commands
      4. The Wear APIs
      5. Answering to Notifications: Capturing Your Voice into an App
      6. Summary
      7. Recommended Reading
   4. 7 PUSHING DATA
      1. Checking the Example
      2. Making Your Google API Client from Scratch
      3. Summary
      4. Recommended Reading
   5. 8 LOCATION-BASED SERVICES ON ANDROID WEAR
      1. Changing How Location Works
      2. Summary
      3. Recommended Reading
4. PART III PROJECTS
   1. 9 ANDROID WEAR AS ACTIVITY TRACKER
      1. What Are Activity Trackers?
      2. Wear as an Activity Tracker
      3. Building the WalkKeeper App
      4. Improvements
      5. Summary
   2. 10 SMARTWATCH AS INPUT
      1. Android Wear as a Game Controller
      2. Building the Dice Game
      3. The Dice Game
      4. Improvements
      5. Summary
      6. Recommended Reading
   3. 11 BUILD YOUR OWN GLASS
      1. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
      2. Building Your Own Glasses
      3. The Simplest App
      4. Summary
5. TITLEPAGE
6. COPYRIGHT
7. DEDICATION
8. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
9. ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR
10. CREDITS
11. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
12. ADVERT
13. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

List of Tables

1. Chapter 4
   1. TABLE 4.1
   2. TABLE 4.2
   3. TABLE 4.3
2. Chapter 5
   1. TABLE 5.1
   2. TABLE 5.2
   3. TABLE 5.3
   4. TABLE 5.4
   5. TABLE 5.5
3. Chapter 6
   1. TABLE 6.1
   2. TABLE 6.2
4. Chapter 7
   1. TABLE 7.1
5. Chapter 8
   1. TABLE 8.1
6. Chapter 9
   1. TABLE 9.1
7. Chapter 10
   1. TABLE 10.1

List of Illustrations

1. Chapter 1
   1. FIGURE 1.1 Sony SmartWatch v1 hacked to be programmed using the Arduino IDE by Arduino Verkstad (image by Asier Arranz)
2. Chapter 2
   1. FIGURE 2.1 Information and communication technologies (ICT) disruptive potential versus speed of uptake by field of application (source: Cisco)
   2. FIGURE 2.2 Connected coffeemaker for the SandS EU research project (source: Arduino)
   3. FIGURE 2.3 Mesh network architecture
3. Chapter 3
   1. FIGURE 3.1 Round Android Wear emulator
   2. FIGURE 3.2 Square Android Wear emulator
   3. FIGURE 3.3 The Android Wear App screen
   4. FIGURE 3.4 Successful connection between the Wear emulator and an Android device
   5. FIGURE 3.5 Allow USB Debugging on Wear
   6. FIGURE 3.6 Recipe Assistant
   7. FIGURE 3.7 Steps 1 through 3 of preparing beef brisket chili
4. Chapter 4
   1. FIGURE 4.1 Wear navigation
   2. FIGURE 4.2 Basic text notification
   3. FIGURE 4.3 Using the Wrox logotype for Wear notifications
   4. FIGURE 4.4 Big text notification
   5. FIGURE 4.5 Big text notification on mobile
   6. FIGURE 4.6 Big text notification, collapsed
   7. FIGURE 4.7 Big picture notification
   8. FIGURE 4.8 Updating a notification
   9. FIGURE 4.9 A simple multipage notification
   10. FIGURE 4.10 Adding a standard action to Wear notifications
   11. FIGURE 4.11 Standard actions on Wear notifications
   12. FIGURE 4.12 Interactive Wear notification
   13. FIGURE 4.13 Hidden icon for Wear notifications
   14. FIGURE 4.14 A notification that sticks to the top of the screen
   15. FIGURE 4.15 Default sorted stack of notifications
   16. FIGURE 4.16 Custom-sorted stack of notifications
   17. FIGURE 4.17 Handheld summary for stacked notifications
5. Chapter 5
   1. FIGURE 5.1 New project startup
   2. FIGURE 5.2 Entering project information
   3. FIGURE 5.3 Select form factors and API levels for your app
   4. FIGURE 5.4 Add a blank phone activity
   5. FIGURE 5.5 Add a blank Wear activity
   6. FIGURE 5.6 Edit the properties for your Wear activity and layouts
   7. FIGURE 5.7 InsetActivity running on both screen types
   8. FIGURE 5.8 The exit app button as shown on a round device
   9. FIGURE 5.9 CardFrame
   10. FIGURE 5.10 The basic CardFragment
   11. FIGURE 5.11 The custom CardFragment
   12. FIGURE 5.12 The basic CircledImageView
   13. FIGURE 5.13 The progress bar at 60%
   14. FIGURE 5.14 The list view with custom row layout
   15. FIGURE 5.15 The 2D Picker
   16. FIGURE 5.16 The success animation
   17. FIGURE 5.17 The open-on-phone animation
   18. FIGURE 5.18 The failure animation
6. Chapter 6
   1. FIGURE 6.1 Enter project information
   2. FIGURE 6.2 Select form factors and API levels for your app
   3. FIGURE 6.3 Add a blank phone activity
   4. FIGURE 6.4 Choose a name for the activity
   5. FIGURE 6.5 Add a blank Wear activity
   6. FIGURE 6.6 Edit the properties for your Wear activity and layouts
   7. FIGURE 6.7 The default layout of the mobile app on the simulator
   8. FIGURE 6.8 An app with an extra button on the simulator
   9. FIGURE 6.9 App with the Wrox logo
   10. FIGURE 6.10 Notification sent to the smartwatch simulator
   11. FIGURE 6.11 Text field added to the UI
   12. FIGURE 6.12 Wear notification inviting you to enter a voice reply
   13. FIGURE 6.13 Reply button
   14. FIGURE 6.14 Reply button
   15. FIGURE 6.15 Wear device sending back data
   16. FIGURE 6.16 Phone app showing the text
7. Chapter 7
   1. FIGURE 7.1 Diagram of the data transmission example
   2. FIGURE 7.2 The Data transmission app on a phone
   3. FIGURE 7.3 The Data transmission app on a wearable
   4. FIGURE 7.4 The Data transmission app on a phone
   5. FIGURE 7.5 The watch after the screen changes color
8. Chapter 8
   1. FIGURE 8.1 Displaying GPS coordinates on the device
9. Chapter 9
   1. FIGURE 9.1 The Fit app
   2. FIGURE 9.2 The select gender list
   3. FIGURE 9.3 The finished select weight list
   4. FIGURE 9.4 Select Height activity
   5. FIGURE 9.5 The touch-to-close option
   6. FIGURE 9.6 The finished WalkKeeper app
10. Chapter 10
    1. FIGURE 10.1 The shake gesture as the computer sees it
    2. FIGURE 10.2 The finished Wear app
    3. FIGURE 10.3 The finished mobile app
11. Chapter 11
    1. FIGURE 11.1 Augmented reality application (image courtesy of Amnon Owed)
    2. FIGURE 11.2 Google Glass (image by Mickepanhu, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported)
    3. FIGURE 11.3 Oculus Rift (image courtesy of Sebastian Stabinger, CC BY 3.0)
    4. FIGURE 11.4 Unfolded Cardboard (image courtesy of Runner1928 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International)
    5. FIGURE 11.5 My personal Cardboard
    6. FIGURE 11.6 Lenses
    7. FIGURE 11.7 Box design
    8. FIGURE 11.8 The final version of my Cardboard
    9. FIGURE 11.9 Treasure hunt app (the colors have been inverted for better visibility)

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