Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Google releases 'sneak peek' of Glass app development kit


Back at SXSW, Google announced the Glass Mirror API — the first step in allowing developers to build apps, or "Glassware" for its wearable computing device. Now, developers will have a whole new set of tools at their disposal: the long-awaited Glass Development Kit (GDK). At a Glass hackathon today at Google’s San Francisco offices, Senior Development Advocate Timothy Jordan today finally took the wraps of Google’s new tool to let developers build Glassware that matches the feature set of the company’s own apps.


Jordan highlighted a few key ways that the GDK differs from Mirror. Apps can run in offline mode, they can get "real-time user response" without having to ping the cloud, and GDK apps can access the Glass hardware...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/19/5122878/google-releases-sneak-peek-of-long-awaited-glass-development-kit

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