Sunday, December 1, 2013

Sony Smartwatch 2 Programming

Some tips:
- the documentation seems to be, well, sparse. The most helpful thing I've found was code samples. They released five with the SDK (Sample{Control, Widget, AdvancedControl, Sensor, Notification}Extension) and two more here (EightPuzzleExtension and OSS_MusicExtension). Load them up into Eclipse as Android projects, they mostly work out of the box.
- well, mostly. For EightPuzzleExtension, I had to add <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" /> to the Android Manifest.
- also useful was Xiang "Anthony" Chen's HelloWatch post. All the example apps have 4 classes, and Anthony explains them better than I can. Almost all of my code went in the Extension app.

Here's the app I've been working on: MorseWatch. Mostly just takes in touch events. Also, I made a HelloSmartwatch app that uses accelerometers.

Maybe more details later. In the meantime, better to get some info and helpful links out there as soon as possible.

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