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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 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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Blocks Gear App for Samsung Galaxy Gear 2 (Tizen Wearable)

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Vykthur

Download it here  Arguably one of the most famous “Classic” games every made. You have played, I’ve played it, and we all love it.  One of the first and most famous implementations of tetromino games is Tetris, first created over … 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 This post documents the process of installing the Gear 2 sdk’s , running and testing the Hello World App for  Samsung Gear 2 which is based on Tizen. No direct Step-By-Step tutorial is available on the Samsung … Continue reading →

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