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Chapter
11
Discovering Android Wear
This chapter introduces you to Android Wear. You'll learn what you need to install and
configure to develop your first Wear application using the Android SDK 5.0.1 API 21. More
specifically we'll cover the following:
Understanding Android Wear
Defining the Android libraries needed for the Wear Application
Creating a Wear Emulator with Android AVD Manager
Creating and running your first Wear application
Let's get started!
What Is Android Wear?
Google officially announced in March 2014 that they were branching out into the world of
wearables with the first version of a revised Android operating system especially designed
for wearables. A few months later during the I/O event, Google launched two devices
running Android Wear, such as the Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch. This was the first
step toward a new Android device called Android Wear.
Android Wear is the Google API for smart watches, Google Glass, and other wearable
devices. Basically the Android Wear device communicates with any Android smartphone or
tablet to get information to be shown on its screen.
Android Wear launch devices include:
Motorola Moto 360
LG G Watch
Samsung Gear Live
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