Learn Android Wear Programming

Name: Learn Android Wear Programming
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Guide to learn and create Android Wear Programs using Android Studio and Eclipse

Created by- SchoolSteps

Last updated 4/2015

English

What you'll learn

Students will be able to create and run Android wear programs
Students will learn about Android wear, UI patterns and Design Principles etc
Students will be able to run wear programs on both Android Studio and Eclipse IDE
Students will be able to program notifications that are compatible with wearables, voice input for notifications, action on voice inputs, stacking notifications, add page to a notification etc
Students will be able to program Custom UIs as creating layouts, cards, lists, 2d pickers, confirmations etc.
Students will be able to program: send and receive messages, sync data items, transferring assets etc
Students will be able to draw the Android Wear Faces
Students will be able to package the Android Wear Apps

Course content

9 sections • 42 lectures • 6h 43m total length

Introduction to Android Wear6:15
In this tutorial, you will learn, What Android Wear is and What are the different features of android wear and what we can do with the android wear.You will also learn about the creative vision for Android Wear.

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Installing Android Studio and Android SDK9:30
In this tutorial, you will learn, how to install Android Studio and Android SDK to get ready for Wear Programming. You will learn step by step details of what you need to install in Android SDK to run wear programs.

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Using Android Studio15:37
In this tutorial, you will learn how to work with the Android Studio. Android Studio is the official tool to work on Android Wear programs. You will learn how to create and run a project, how to work with design time AVD, how to create and run AVD, how to debug a program, how to change font size, tools for overriding & implementing methods, DDMS view etc.

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UI Patterns for Android Wear6:57
In this tutorial, you will learn about UI Patterns for Android Wear. You will get familiar with the terminologies like cards, pages, icons, backgrounds, dismissing cards, action buttons, confirmations, notification stacking, 2D pickers, voice commands, selection list etc. This tutorial will set the ground for you to understand the various terms while doing programming.

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Design Principles for Android Wear3:31
In this tutorial, you will learn about design principles for android wear. You will learn about the design techniques and principles that you need to care while writing the wear programs.

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How to run Android Wear Programs using Eclipse11:48
Eclipse is a very famous IDE for developing Java/J2EE and Android applications. Even though Android Studio has been declared as the official IDE for wear programming, Many developers are interested in knowing how to run wear programs on Eclipse. In this tutorial, you will learn how you can run a wear program on Eclipse with ease.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Quiz on Basics of Android Wear Programming

Pair Handheld with Android Wear Emulator6:51
This is one of the important tutorials on Andorid Wear. In this tutorial, you will learn how to pair your handheld (Cell Phone) device with wear emulator and sync the notifications. After the pairing, you will be able see your handheld notifications on the Emulator.

ATTENTION: This tutorial is IMPORTANT as in most of the coming tutorials, you have to make sure that your handheld device is paired with emulator before you run your program.

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Creating a Notification for Android Wear13:10
In this tutorial, you will learn to program the notifications that are compatible with both handheld and wear devices. At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to give the extended capability to Android notifications so that they look good on both wear and handheld devices.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Pending Intent in Android Wear9:12
In this tutorial, you will learn, how to open the details of a notification on Android Wear using Pending Intent. Notifications using Pending Intents work even when the application is not active or closed.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Add Page to a Notification on Android Wear9:09
In this tutorial, you will learn, how to add one or more pages to the notification on the wearable without requiring users to open your app on their handheld device. The additional pages appear immediately to the right of the main notification card.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Quiz on Wearable Notifications - Part I
Receiving Voice Input for a Notification12:45
In this tutorial, you will learn how to receive a voice input in a notification. There are instances when you need to reply to a notification. As in wear device, there is no keyboard, you need to dictate a reply through the voice input.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Perform Action on Voice Input10:52
In this tutorial, you will learn, how to perform an action after you give the voice instructions/input to a notification. For example: Performing action "A" when your voice input is "YES" and performing action "B" when your voice input is "NO".

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Stacking Notifications on Android Wear10:25
In this tutorial, you will learn, how to group all the notifications together in a stack for the wearable device. The stack of notifications appears as a single card, which users can expand to view the details from each notification separately. You will also learn, Why we should not display "Summary Notification" on the wearable and How "Stacking Notifications" on wearable device are helpful.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Summary Notifications11:20
This tutorial is in continuation to Stacking Notifications. In this tutorial, you will learn how to display the summary notifications on handheld device when stack of notifications is being displayed on wear device.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Miscellaneous - Notifications Summary7:05
In this tutorial, you will learn, how summary notifications affects the notifications on the wearable devices without being displayed on them.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Quiz on Wearable Notifications - Part II

Defining Layouts10:52
In this tutorial, you will learn about the layout techniques for the wearables. You will also learn about the specific constraints that you need to take care while designing for the wearables. You will learn, how to design for the round and square shape screens.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Creating Cards - Using Card Fragment Class6:58
Cards present information to users with a consistent look and feel across different apps. In this tutorial, you will learn, how to create cards in your Android Wear applications using the CardFragment Class.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Creating Cards using Layout9:05
Cards present information to users with a consistent look and feel across different apps. In this tutorial, you will learn, how to create a card inside a CardScrollView in your layout.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Creating Lists for Android Wear13:56
Lists let users select an item from a set of choices easily on wearable devices. In this tutorial, you will learn, how to create lists in your Android Wear apps.

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An introduction to 2D picker pattern and GridViewPager9:24
The 2D Picker pattern in Android Wear allows users to scroll vertically and horizontally through pages of data. In this tutorial, you will learn the concept of rows and columns in a grid. You will also get to learn about the GridViewPager.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
2D Pickers - Creating Rows and Columns14:16
This tutorial is in continuation of previous tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn how to implement rows and columns in a grid using the FragmentGridPagerAdapter class.

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2D Pickers - Loading background image for each row10:41
This tutorial is in continuation of previous tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn how to load a different background image for every row. You will also learn about the class LruCache.

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2D Pickers - Image Transition, Custom Views, Column background image13:15
This is last tutorial on 2D pickers and is in continuation of previous tutorials. In this tutorial, you will learn about three things. 1. Image Transition 2. Custom Views 3. How to change background of a particular column in the grid.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Showing Confirmations13:11
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create the confirmation timers and confirmation animation using wearable UI library.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.

Sending Message to Wearable12:14
In this tutorial, you will learn, how to send message from handheld device to wearable. This tutorials covers the implementation of mobile module only. In this tutorial, you will learn about GoogleApiClient, MessageAPI, NodeAPI etc.

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Receiving Message by Wearable10:42
This tutorial is in continuation of the previous tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn the implementation of wear module to receive the message sent by the handheld. You will learn about WearableListenerService in this tutorial.

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Syncing Data Items - Sending Data Item to Wearable16:51
In this tutorial, you will learn the concept of syncing data item. You will learn about DataMap class. you will learn, how to send the data from handheld to wearable when wearable is in offline mode. You will also understand the difference between a message and a data item.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Syncing Data Items - Receiving Data Item by Wearable7:54
This tutorial is in continuation of previous tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn to implement the wear module to sync data items. In the previous tutorial, we sent the data to wearable through handheld, when the wearable was in offline mode. In this tutorial, you will learn, how to sync the data between a wearable and handheld, when the wear device comes in the online mode.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Transferring Assets to Wearable14:31
This tutorial focuses on transferring large blobs of binary data such as bitmap over the bluetooth. In this tutorial, you will focus on the implementation of mobile module. You will learn to click a picture using the handheld device, convert it into an asset and send it to the wearable.

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Loading Bitmap from Asset on Wearable14:19
This tutorial is in continuation from previous tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn, how to convert the bitmap from an asset and how to load the bitmap on a wearable. You will also learn about DataListener activity, runOnUIThread, GoogleAPIClient and FreezableUtils.

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NOTE: Code for this tutorial is attached in resources.
Handling Data Layer Events4:14
In this tutorial, you will learn how to handle different data layer events.

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Building Watch Face Service7:10
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create the structure of Watch Face Service

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Drawing Watch Faces - Implementation of Handler object and onCreate method9:05
This tutorial is in continuation of previous tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn how to Implement the Handler object and onCreate method.

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Drawing Watch Faces - Implementation of onDraw method9:13
This tutorial is in continuation of previous tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn, how to Implement the onDraw method in watch faces. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to design the face of Analog watch.

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Run Time on Watch Face - Intro to Ambient mode and Interruption Filters5:30
In this tutorial, you will learn three things. 1. Make time run on Android Analog watch face. 2. Work on Ambient mode 3. Work on Interruption Filters.

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Low-Bit Ambient and Burn-in Protection Techniques7:59
In this tutorial, first, you will have an introduction to Low-Bit Ambient and Burn-in protection techniques. Then you will programmatically look into how to work for the screens that need low-bit ambient and burn-in protection.

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Working with Time Zone6:02
In this tutorial, you will learn how to automatically change the time on watch face when user changes the Time Zone on the handheld device.

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How to Run Watch Face on Android Wear Device and Emulator3:00
In this tutorial, you will learn, how to run it Android wear device OR Android wear emulator, after you make an android wear face.

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How to Create Watch Faces Quickly2:01

Packaging Android Wear Applications9:45
In this tutorial, you will learn how to package the android wear applications for distribution. You will work on a live example, create the APK file, upload it on the Google Play Store and then install the wear app from Google Play Store on Wear Emulator. You will learn, how you can experience the wear app installation at your own.

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Requirements

Basic to average knowledge of Android programming / Java programming is required to join this course on Android Wear Programming.

Description

SchoolSteps(.in) is a team of 7 professionals having an average experience of 12+ years. Our core strength is Java/J2EE, Web and Android Programming and we have been doing rigorous R&D in Android Wear Programming since the API has been introduced. Through this series, we thought of sharing our knowledge with you.

The series contains 6+ hours of video tutorials with maximum focus on programming. The series do focus on some theoretical concepts to make the base for you to learn wear programming.

The series starts your learning journey with the basics like what is android wear, design principles, android SDK installation, using android studio etc and then moves to the interesting concepts like building notifications for android wear, adding page to a notification, voice input for notifications and notification stacking etc.

Next it takes you to world of Custom UIs, where you learn to create layouts, cards, list , 2D pickers, confirmations etc for the Android Wear.

Eventually, it takes you through the advanced concepts where you learn to send and receive messages, sync data items, transferring assets, designing android wear faces etc.

Last but not the least, you will experience a LIVE EXAMPLE, using Google Play Store, on how to package and distribute your Android Wear App.

The prerequisite for this course is to have basic to average knowledge of Java/J2EE. Knowledge of Android programming is good to have.

Who this course is for:

Software Developer / Programmers having basic to average knowledge of Android Programming / Java Programming should join this course
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Basics of Android Wear Programming6 lectures • 54min

Pair Handheld with Android Wear Emulator1 lecture • 7min

Adding Wearable Features to Notifications8 lectures • 1hr 24min

Creating Custom UIs9 lectures • 1hr 42min

Sending and Syncing Data7 lectures • 1hr 21min

Creating Watch Faces8 lectures • 50min

Detecting Location1 lecture • 13min

Sample Application1 lecture • 4min

Packaging1 lecture • 10min

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