Processing for Android: Create Mobile, Sensor-aware, and XR Applications Using Processing

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A. ColubriProcessing for Androidhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9585-4_10

10. Wearable Devices

Andrés Colubri¹  

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University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA

 

In this chapter, we will learn how to use Processing to create watch faces for Android smartwatches. We will go through the specific features and limitations of wearable devices that we should take into consideration when writing apps to use on these devices.

From Activity Trackers to Smartwatches

We may think of phones and tablets first when considering mobile development, but wearable devices have been used by many people since the introduction of fitness trackers such as the Fitbit back ...