Match Timer – Part 6

Previously in this series we’ve built a Wear app designed to time football matches. While we finished the coding in the last article, there is still another important thing to do if we want to distribute our app via Google Play, and that’s package it up! In this concluding article of this series we’ll look…

Match Timer – Part 5

Previously in this series we’ve looked at the timer engine, the event engine, and the mechanism for notifying the user in our app for timing football matches. In this article we’ll turn our attention to the UI and look at the Activities in the app.

Match Timer – Part 4

Previously in this series on developing Match Timer (for timing football matches on Android Wear) we’ve looked at the timing engine and the BroadcastReceiver which is used to register alarms and handle events both from those alarms and from user actions. In this article we’ll turn our attention to notifications which are the primary interface…

Match Timer – Part 3

Previously in this series we’ve looked at the software design decisions and the main timer engine for our Android Wear app to time do football (soccer to our American cousins) matches. In this article we’ll look at how we can wake up periodically in order to update the user.