Android Wear and GlassOr how I got sucked into Googles ooh shiny trap

Wearable Computing: The past

Wearable Computing:The Present

Introducing Wearable Google

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

Glass:

Developer Page - https://developers.google.com/glass/

Android Wear:

Developer Page - http://developer.android.com/wear/preview/start.html

Where To Find Things