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Creating a Google Glass App With the Glass Development Kit

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Course Features

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Duration

184 minutes

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Downloadable Courses

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

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Video Content

184 minutes

Course Description

This course will teach you how to make apps that run on Google Glass. You'll create a fully-featured Scavenger Hunt app using the Glass Development Kit. This course will walk you through how to build a Scavenger Hunt app that runs completely on Google Glass. This course will teach you how to create apps for Google Glass that interact and use the Glass Timeline. You'll also learn how to incorporate touch-based gestures for navigation and voice commands for your app. The built-in camera is used to take photos that correspond to randomly generated Scavenger Hunt categories. The player associates each photo with the correct category by using touch-based-gesture navigation after it is taken. Google Glass LiveCard displays the player's current game status on the Glass Timeline. Game play continues until the player has captured a photograph for each category.

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Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

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

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

Course Instructors

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Jim Wilson

Instructor

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...
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