ok glass, develop
If you are a developer looking to get started creating native apps for Google Glass, I hope you find this guide helpful. XE 16 was recently released with an updated version of the GDK, which we will be using to create Weather Report.
Weather Report is a very basic weather app that will display and read aloud the weather for a given city. We will also write some unit tests for components that interact with third-party APIs. The project is open source and available on GitHub.
IDE / Project Setup
First, we must setup our development environment. I recommend using IntelliJ IDEA 13, which features Gradle integration and many other things that simplify development and deployment of Android / Glass apps.
Let’s create a new Android Module with Gradle:
We’ll want to specify API 19 as the Target SDK and Glass Development Kit Preview as the Compile with:
You will need to install Android...