README.md
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2Android AlwaysOn Sample
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5A basic sample showing how to support ambient mode for native Android Wear apps.
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7Introduction
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10[WearableActivity][1] offers methods for supporting your native app staying on the screen when the Wear device enters ambient mode.
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12This example extends [WearableActivity][1] and overrides onEnterAmbient, onUpdateAmbient, and onExitAmbient to allow the simple native Wear app to support ambient mode.
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14In ambient mode, this app follows best practices by keeping most pixels black, avoiding large blocks of white pixels, using only black and white, and disabling anti-aliasing (following the [design guidelines for Watch Faces][2]).
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16In addition and most importantly, the app sleeps while in ambient mode for 20 seconds between any updates to conserving battery life (processor allowed to sleep). If you can hold off on updates for a full minute, you can throw away the Handler and just use onUpdateAmbient to save even more battery life.
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18As always, you will still want to apply the [performance guidelines][3] outlined in the Watch Faces documention to your app.
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20[1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/wearable/activity/WearableActivity.html
21[2]: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/designing.html#DesignGuidelines
22[3]: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/performance.html
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24Pre-requisites
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27- Android SDK 23
28- Android Build Tools v23.0.3
29- Android Support Repository
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31Screenshots
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34<img src="screenshots/1-main-active.png" height="400" alt="Screenshot"/> <img src="screenshots/2-main-ambient.png" height="400" alt="Screenshot"/> <img src="screenshots/3-main-active-round.png" height="400" alt="Screenshot"/> <img src="screenshots/4-main-ambient-round.png" height="400" alt="Screenshot"/>
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36Getting Started
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39This sample uses the Gradle build system. To build this project, use the
40"gradlew build" command or use "Import Project" in Android Studio.
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42Support
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45- Google+ Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/105153134372062985968
46- Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android
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48If you've found an error in this sample, please file an issue:
49https://github.com/googlesamples/android-AlwaysOn
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51Patches are encouraged, and may be submitted by forking this project and
52submitting a pull request through GitHub. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.
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54License
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57Copyright 2016 The Android Open Source Project, Inc.
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