Creating a Google Glass App With the Glass Development Kit
Learn to develop apps for Google Glass by building a full-featured Scavenger Hunt game using the Glass Development Kit.
What you'll learn
In this course, you will learn to create apps that run directly on Google Glass by creating a full-featured Scavenger Hunt game using the Glass Development Kit. The course takes you through the complete process of building a Scavenger Hunt game that runs entirely on Google Glass. In the process of creating this game, you will learn how to develop apps for Google Glass that interact with the Glass Timeline and incorporate the distinct behaviors of a wearable computer like Google Glass, including using voice commands to launch your app, capturing photos, and incorporating touch-based-gestures for navigation. In this game, the player uses the built-in camera to capture photos corresponding to a randomly generated list of Scavenger Hunt categories. As each photo is captured, the player uses touch-based-gesture navigation to associate the photo with the appropriate category. The game uses a Google Glass LiveCard to display the player's ongoing game status on the Glass Timeline with game play continuing until the player has captured a photo for every category.
Table of contents
- Introduction 5m
- Types of Glass Development 2m
- Working With the GDK 4m
- The Android Download Manager and the GDK 2m
- The Parts of a Google Glass Device 2m
- Glass Timeline and Cards 2m
- Creating a Live Card App 3m
- Creating Hello World for Glass 8m
- Running Hello World for Glass 1m
- Creating a Glass App's UX 2m
- Scavenger Hunt for Glass 3m
- Scavenger Hunt for Glass in Action 2m
- Summary 2m
About the author
Jim Wilson is president of JW Hedgehog, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in solutions for the Android, iOS, and Microsoft platforms. Jim has over 30 years of software engineering experience, with the past 15 years heavily focused on creating mobile device and location-based solutions. He has co-founded multiple software-related startups and has served in a consulting role at several more. After nearly a decade as a Microsoft Device Application Development MVP, Jim now focuses on developing A... more