Category Archives: Wearables

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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Android Wear vs Tizen for Wearables (Samsung Gear 2). What developers need to know

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Vykthur

In the last few months the wearable computing industry has seen significant action. Google announced their operating system for smartwatches – Android Wear in March 2014 and Samsung announced their new iteration of the Gear smartwatch line at the 2014 Mobile … Continue reading →

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Accessing Sensor Data (Pedometer) on Samsung Gear 2 – Sample Code

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Vykthur

This article provides sample code to access sensor data for the samsung Gear 2 running tizen. The examples provided with the Tizen wearable SDK are definitely sufficient to get you started , but with a catch – Everything is written in … Continue reading →

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Samsung Gear 2 ( Tizen Wearable ) Sample Apps, Widgets and Templates

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Vykthur

In this post, I demonstrate how to access the sample apps that come with the tizen wearable IDE. For developers learning a new language/platform, the best way to get started is to study and build on sample code. Unfortunately the Gear … Continue reading →

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Step by Step Guide on How to Build Your first Samsung Gear 2 App (Tizen)

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Vykthur

Photo Credit : Samsung Developers Update : This post created May 12, 2014 when there was mighty little documentation out there, and a lot has changed since then! Samsung has released several new wearable devices, and the SDK (and its installation process) … Continue reading →

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