A quick slide deck about the development options for Google Glass and Android Wear

1. Android Wear and Glass
Or how I got sucked into Googles ooh shiny trap

2. Wearable Computing: The past

3. Wearable Computing:The Present

4. Introducing Wearable Google

5. • Already in the wild
• Invite only at the moment
• Controversial
• Glass Holes
• Currently costs upwards
of $1500 USD
Google Glass
• Heads up display
• Camera - Records and takes
photos
• Works with both Android and iOS
devices
• On board storage

6. • No hardware at the moment
• Preview SDK Released
• Envisioned as a general “wearable” OS
• Initial release all about the notifications
• Future releases introduce more functionality
Android Wear

7. So you want to see what you can do with the new shiny?
First off a couple of things:
1) Without an actual Glass device you’re going to be limited to using the
Mirror API
2) The Wear API is going to be a moving target
Playing With Shiny New Toys

8. • Cloud hosted apps
• Available in Go, Java, Ruby, PHP, Python and .Net
• Cards form the core of the Mirror API service
• Act as containers for text, HTML, Video or Images
• Mirror API can also be location aware
• Playground is available for testing
Google Glass: Mirror API

9. • First iteration
• Extension of current Android development setup
• Requires an app to be installed on your Android device
• Extends notifications, allows user to interact with phone via the Wear
device
• Emulators available for round and square form factors
Android Wear: Notifications

10. Glass:
Developer Page - https://developers.google.com/glass/
Android Wear:
Developer Page - http://developer.android.com/wear/preview/start.html
Where To Find Things