Talk about Android Wear that I delivered on 15th July 2014 at TechBeach in Manly.

1. 14 July 2014
Nanik Tolaram
nanikjava@yahoo.com
@nanikjava

2. About
 Android Platform Engineer
 Android Writer for open source
magazine.odroid.com
 Monthly Android Workshops at Fishburners

3. About
 Android Platform Engineer
 Android Writer for open source
magazine.odroid.com
 Monthly Android Workshops at Fishburners

4. Questions
 How the whole thing works ?
 Why is it so special ?
 What lies in the future ?

5. Which Layer ?

6. Android Wear
 Device communication
 Bridging App to Wear Device
 Future – part of Android stack
or Play Services
 Rely on Notification Service

7. Notification Flow
Android
App (Gmail,
Phone, SMS)
NotificationListener
Android Notification System
Bluetooth
Android Wear Device

8. Wear Emulator
 KitKat 4.4.x Stack
 ARM/x86 image (faster)
 Socket Communication
(via adb)

9. Recipe Wear Demo
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2
3
1 android.support.v4.app.NotificationCompat.Builder
(Builder class to build notification message)
android.support.v4.app.NotificationCompat.WearableExtender
(Wear specific notification builder)
2
NotificationManager(Service) call to initiate notification function3
RecipeService.java

10. SDK for Wear
 Custom Card Layout
 Data & Action between device and wearable
 Realtime sensor data display on wearable
 App handler for voice action

11. Future
 Android as central device hub
 Extending Android via API (TV, Auto, etc)
 BYOD (Build-Your-Own-Device)