Chapter 4Building the Timeline
Remember history classes from school? At some point you likely encountered a graphical chronology, populated by points in time. For example, one point may read June 18, 1815: Napoleon loses at Waterloo, followed by a point that reads June 22, 1815: Napoleon abdicates his throne, and so on. This is a classic timeline, a chronological sequence of events.
In Glass, a timeline is the core organization unit through which Glassware operates. Rather than a desktop filled with icons or a web page filled with links, Glass stamps every card with a point in time, and places them in order. Ordering starts from the home card and stretches to the right indefinitely. As you scroll further right, the cards grow progressively ...
Get Programming Google Glass now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
