Improve your Android skills by making Android Wear dials
summary
The talk explains how building Android Wear watch faces can sharpen native Android skills by teaching platform constraints and graphics APIs. It walks step-by-step through creating a polished watch dial using only Canvas drawing (radians, shaders, radial gradients, paths, Xfer modes, quadratic curves) without images, showing how to apply these techniques to custom views and animations in Android apps.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 3:27Create an Android Wear app
- 4:12Create a watch face
- 6:02Create a watch face project
- 10:14Ambient mode / Low-bit Ambient
- 15:01Avoid burn-in
- 25:35Minute indicators
- 25:51Add a shadow
- 31:044/5: Add ambient mode
- 39:11#13: Vector Drawables
- 40:39Conclusion
- 41:39Android Wear Essentials
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