Chapter    13

Watch Face Configuration Companion Activity: Google Mobile Services

Now that you have the basic bitmap and vector watch face design working in all display modes, it’s time to switch over to mobile (smartphone) devices and create the watch face “feature selector” application, which will allow your users to customize their very own watch face designs. This will allow you to charge money for your watch faces applications because they will be customized watch face generator applications, not just simple watch faces.

This is as complex as watch face design itself is, but in a different way. In this chapter, you will be learning about the Google API Client Java interface, which is used to integrate Google Play Services into your watch ...

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