Wear C# on your Wrist

Dive into Android Wear with Xamarin, and learn how to extend your apps to your wrist! We'll talk about good wear app design and best practices, how to easily extend existing notifications to wear, and finally how to make a more complex companion Wear app.If there's time, we'll talk a bit about Xamarin and Apple's new WatchKit too!

Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/London-NET-Developers-Group/events/198552342/
Code: http://git.io/QaTi2Q

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1. Wear C# on your Wrist! http://redth.codes @redth Jonathan Dick
2. Wearables
3. Android Wear
4. • Android 4.4.87 • Paired to Phone • Companion Apps • Sensors What is Wear?
5. http://goo.gl/yfSkx1
6. Wearable App Design
7. Just because you can…
8. doesn’t mean you should.
9. Cards Standard Card Single Action Card Stacked Card
10. Extending your existing app’s Notifications ▪ Uses Notification.WearableExtender ▪ Custom Backgrounds ▪ Add actions to your Notification ▪ Remote Input - Voice Input - Predefined actions • Pages • Stacking Lazy, but very effective!
11. Demo
12. Lists • WearableListView • Special RecyclerView
13. Demo
14. GridViewPager
15. Demo
16. Communication MessageApi DataApi
17. Demo
18. Sensors ▪ Use Standard Sensor API’s on Android - Accelerometer - Digital Compass - Gyroscope - Heart Rate Monitor - Step Counter
19. Demo
20. Packaging ▪ Wear apps do not exist on their own ▪ Embedded inside ‘Companion’ apps ▪ Signed with same keystore ▪ Wear app’s .APK file embedded as Asset ▪ Resource XML points to .APK
21. Custom Watch Faces ▪ Wallpaper Service ▪ OnDraw (Canvas) ▪ Still an embedded app ▪ Ambient Mode / Visibility changes
22.  Apple Watch
23. ▪ WatchKit Extension ▪ Runs on Phone
 ▪ Storyboard / UI ▪ Published to Watch Architecture Xamarin Support coming soon!
24. THANKS!