Introduction to Android Wear - Courseware

Who

David Cuartielles and Andreas Goransson work at different companies at the Malmo Incubator (MINC) and have written the book Professional Android Wearables for Wiley's Wrox series.

What - Simple Introduction

Are you interested in programming for Android Wear devices? We are! We've been into designing wearable technologies using Android for a couple of years now, and with the arrival of Android Wear APIs, it has become easier than ever to create your own Android centric experiences to wear around your wrist.

If you want to learn about Android Wear from zero, or if you want to share your experience in programming for this exciting platform, come and join us in a weekly tour to the basics of Wear. This is our suggested agenda, but it is open for discussion. We want to find like-minded people willing to get as much as possible from Wear. We will meet at MINC's open office space on Tuesdays after work during the month of April and the first week of May. Join us!

Agenda

We will make 1h introductory sessions to different aspects of Android Wear. The sessions will happen on a weekly basis between March and May 2015.

Session 1 (March 31st):

• Introduction
• Come from home with Android Studio installed, we help setting up
• Your first Android Wear App

Session 2 (April 7th):

• Notifications
• Voice input

Session 3 (April 14th):

• Wearable API for sending and receiving data
• Data API
• Node API
• Message API

Session 4 (April 21st):

• Custom Wear activities

Session 5 (May 5th):

• Hack Google Cardboard and make your own Glass

Technical Needs

You will need to bring your own laptop, Android phone and Android Wear device (eventually you can run everything on an emulator).The sessions increase in complexity gradually, some Android programming knowledge is required to get started.

Where - MINC & GITHUB

• [MINC] (http://minc.se/)
• You can follow further development of the content at our github account.

This is Lovely!! I want to support you

We have written this book about the topic: [Professional Android Wearables] (http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Android-Wearables-David-Cuartielles/dp/1118986857). Even if you don't need to purchase it to participate in the sessions. It would be great if you did.

We also take donations on our Eventbrite page. The money will be spent in buying cakes for the workshops as MINC is kindly donating the space, coffee, tea and even popcorn. For donations and subscriptions follow [this link] (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/android-wear-meetup-tickets-16073397966)

Donors & Credits

The donors for our workshop series are:

• MINC
• Petter Bjelm
• Joakim Wesslen