Introduction to Android Wear

Lightning Talk on Android Wear - Google's upcoming OS platform for wearable devices. Delivered at: TU München, Android Praktikum SS2014

Transcript

1. Introduction to Android Wear By: Ankit Bahuguna (@codekee) M.Sc. Informatics, TU München
2. Agenda • Extending Android to Wearables. • Android Wear – What’s the buzz? • How is development different for Android Wear? • Notification preview using Wear App. • UI Overview (Suggest and Demand). • Design Principles. • Getting Started : DevCentral. • Moto 360. • Demo/ Video. • Links and Resources.
3. Extending Android to Wearables Android Wear extends the Android platform to a new generation of wearable devices. The UX is designed specifically for these devices.
4. Android Wear – What’s the buzz? • Android Wear devices are small and powerful giving users useful information just when they need it. • Watches powered by Android Wear respond to spoken questions and commands to provide info and get stuff done. • These new devices can help users reach their fitness goals and be their key to a multi- screen world.
5. How is development different for Android Wear?
6. Notification Preview using Wear App
7. Updating Notifications is Instant
8. User Interface At a high level, the Android Wear UI consists of two main spaces centered around the core functions of Suggest and Demand.
9. Suggest: The Context Stream
10. Demand: The Cue Card
11. Design Principles Android wear experiences are: 1. Contextually Aware and Smart. 2. Glanceable. 3. Zero/ Low Interaction. 4. Helpful. Thus it is important to: • Be respectful of users' attention and aware of how unnecessary interruptions will reflect on your application’s reputation. • Omit needless text from your notifications. • Design for glanceability, not reading. • Use words and phrases, not sentences. • Show, don't tell: where possible use simple icons, glyphs, and visualizations to convey your message.
12. Notification UI Patterns Actions Images Application Icons
13. Notification UI Patterns Pages
14. Notification UI Patterns Notification Stack Voice Replies
15. Getting Started: DevCentral www.developer.android.com/wear Three Easy Steps!!! 1. Sign up for the Android Wear Preview. 2. Download the System Image for the emulator. 3. Get the companion App on Google Play.
16. Be a good citizen. Notifications which vibrate or sound on your phone will vibrate on your wrist. • Context is everything consider geo-fencing or activity detection. • Sound Vibrate Controls • Use Notification Priority. Notification Design goo.gl/hBJqHp
17. Moto 360 moto360.motorola.com
18. Demo / Video
19. Links and Resources • Android Wear Home: http://developer.android.com/wear/index.html • Developer Preview: http://developer.android.com/wear/preview/start.html • Official Google Plus Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/113381227473021565406 • Android Developers blog introducing Wear: http://android- developers.blogspot.de/2014/03/android-wear-developer-preview.html • Android Notification Design Guidelines: http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/notifications.html • Android Wear Design Principles: http://developer.android.com/wear/design/index.html
20. For further questions write to me: ankit.bahuguna@cs.tum.edu #ThankYou