Developing Android on Android

Next Steps

In this chapter, we learned about wearable computing and how it relates to today’s Android devices. To that effect, we learned how to give Android smartphones and tablets a voice by enabling Android’s text-to-speech capability. We also discovered how several commercially available Android programs take advantage of this built-in feature. And we configured a useful utility that gives us the ability to initiate actions on an Android smartphone with the click of a headset button.

Speaking of the headset button, take some time to explore your own application assignments for Headset Button Controller. Couple its functionality with the audio-oriented informational and productivity programs suggested in this chapter. As you reorient yourself ...