Chapter    6

Introduction to Android Watch Faces Design: Considerations and Concepts

Now that you have some “foundational knowledge” in place regarding Android 5 and its new features, Material Design, Android Studio IntelliJ IDEA, and AVD emulators and have set up, updated, and configured an open source Pro Android Wearables application development workstation, the time has come for you to get down to business and learn about the various parts of the Android 5 API that directly apply to and affect wearables application development.

You have already learned how to create a brand new ProAndroidWearable application in Chapter 4 (I wanted to give you a head start), so in this chapter you will begin to learn about the most popular type of Android ...

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