{Google Glass

Corey Leigh Latislaw (@corey_latislaw)Matt Smollinger (@mattsmollinger)

Android AllianceNovember 2013

Wearable device Heads up display Bluetooth & WiFi connectivity

Glass! http://images.seroundtable.com/five-google-glass-1368100141.jpg

Teardown

http://www.catwig.com/google-glass-teardown/

What can it do?

Functionality

{Design

Design for Glass Don't get in the way Keep it timely Avoid the unexpected

Principles

Cards

https://developers.google.com/glass/timeline

{Glassware, GDK (Android), Hybrid

Development Options

{Card delivery system

Mirror

• Platform independent REST API, OAuth 2.0

• Developed for existing web application to add Glass functionality

• Utilizes GCM for sending to individual Glass

• Must host a publicly accessible URL for Mirror to call to for notification of data.

Mirror API

• HTML5 and CSS• JSON API• Requires Pagination for long content• Can program cords to capture last know

location• Render Maps, Video

Mirror API

Hybrid Glassware

• Mirror API can launch GDK Glassware via intents

• Possible tight integration for web properties to message a user, inserting a card into the Timeline using Mirror to then launch GDK

• Why? Doesn’t appear possible to utilize GCM on Glass via just GDK

Hybrid Glassware

• Sneak Peak• Download from Android SDK manager• Based on 4.0.3 (API level 15)

Allows access to underlying hardware, including voice and main menu integration

Has it’s own “Glass” theme, full screen, Roboto font.

GDK

{Android on Glass

GDK: Glass Development Kit

• Offline processing• Real time• Using hardware natively

Why?

• Periodic notifications• Sharing• On-going tasks• Immersive

Patterns

Enable debugging Install Android SDK & tools adb shell pm install -r "/data/local/tmp/com.colabug.tennant.viewer”

adb start am start -n "com.colabug.tennant.viewer/com.colabug.tennant.viewer.TennantViewerActivity"

Building & Running

{“ok glass show the doctor”

GDK App Demo

https://github.com/colabug/TennantCardViewer

• https://developers.google.com/glass/• https://plus.google.com/+TimothyJordan• https://github.com/googleglass/• GDK makes use of all 4.0.x relevant docs• Example projects available on github

Resources