Author Archives: Vykthur

About Vykthur

Mobile and Web App Developer and Researcher. Passionate about learning, teaching, and recently - writing.

Tizen Wearable API Documentation Version 1.0 and New Features too!

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Vykthur

Up until now, there hasn’t been a documentation  of the Tizen Wearable OS platform which runs on gear 2 devices. Samsung has just released a Programming Guide (which is hardly matured yet) , but definitely provides more information. The Samsung developer team … Continue reading →

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Gear 2 Developer Tips : Keep Screen On, Seller Office Issues

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Vykthur

A few tips to solve issues encountered whilst developing gear 2 apps and submitting them to the app store. Some of them are due to the new changes to the samsung app seller office.

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Scoreloop SDK Terminated. Its the End of the Road Guys.

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Vykthur

I’d hoped this day would come later rather than sooner. But I did predict it in my last article about the Scoreloop gaming/leaderboard SDK. I found the service to be both awesome, easy to use, fast and all round value … Continue reading →

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Gear 2 – How to Bring your App to ForeGround and Autolaunch.

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Vykthur

Many times you may be working on an app that needs to show some notifications to users as activities occur – even when a different app is on the foreground. E.g an app that reminds you to take your meds … Continue reading →

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Gear 2 – How to Send Infra-red IR (String) Data using the irBlaster Sensor

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Vykthur

The irblaster included in the Gear 2 is definitely an innovative component especially for hobbyists and developers. Several Arduino projects have excitedly explored projects that let them build custom remote controllers for electronic devices that have infra red receivers such … Continue reading →

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Getting Accelerometer Data in Javascript for your Gear 2 Apps [Sample Code]

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Vykthur

One more important way to overcome user-interaction challenges on wearable devices is to implement hands-free interaction via sensors. Today, we’ll be looking at code to obtain tilt information from the Gear 2 accelerometer sensor. Luckily, it is a straightforward and easy … Continue reading →

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Taking Gear 2 Gestures to the next level! – tap, swipe, pinch zoom using Hammer.js

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Vykthur

Hammer.js is AWESOME. Basically its a javascript library specifically for detecting multitouch gestures. It enables you detect Detects Tap, DoubleTap, Swipe, Drag, Pinch, and Rotate gestures! And the more gestures we can implement for our limited wearable devices (smartwatches in this … Continue reading →

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How to Add Gestures (tap, swipe) to Your Gear 2 App (jQuery Version).

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Vykthur

Developing apps for wearable computing devices (e.g google glass, samsung galaxy gear, etc) can be a significant challenge – especially because developers DO NOT have a trusted/tested set of interaction gestures due to varying/emerging form factors. Naturally, the small size of wearable … Continue reading →

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How to Install (sideload) .wgt app files on the Samsung Gear 2 smartwatch using SDB

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Vykthur

This posts discusses the steps required to install a third party wearable widget (.wgt) as a standalone app  on the Samsung Gear 2 smart-watch or an emulator. It is assumed that you are the developer of the .wgt file and would like … Continue reading →

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How to Store Data (Database access) in your Gear 2 (Tizen for Wearables) Apps

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Vykthur

Whilst developing your Gear 2 apps you will likely need to store data and keep state. This post discusses the 3 main ways you can achieve this – HTML5 Webstorage, IndexedDB and good old Files . 

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