1. Google Glass
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Corey Leigh Latislaw (@corey_latislaw)
Matt Smollinger (@mattsmollinger)
Android Alliance
November 2013

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Wearable device
Heads up display
Bluetooth & WiFi connectivity
Glass!
http://images.seroundtable.com/fivegoogle-glass-1368100141.jpg

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

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What can it do?
Functionality

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

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

8. Development
Options
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Glassware, GDK (Android), Hybrid

9. Mirror
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Card delivery system

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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

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HTML5 and CSS
JSON API
Requires Pagination for long content
Can program cords to capture last know
location
Render Maps, Video
Mirror API

12. Hybrid Glassware

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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

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GDK
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.

15. GDK: Glass
Development Kit
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Android on Glass

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Why?
Offline processing
Real time
Using hardware natively

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Periodic notifications
Sharing
On-going tasks
Immersive
Patterns

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Enable debugging
Install Android SDK & tools
adb shell pm install -r
"/data/local/tmp/com.colabug.tennan
t.viewer”
adb start am start -n
"com.colabug.tennant.viewer/com.col
abug.tennant.viewer.TennantViewerAc
tivity"
Building & Running

19. GDK App Demo
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“ok glass show the doctor”
https://github.com/colabug/TennantCardViewer

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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