Programming Google Glass

Sharing Assets with Glassware

Contacts are meant to be more than simply people or businesses. Your Glassware itself can actually be a contact. This means your users can share items with a Glassware application. In my opinion, this was an odd design choice on Google’s part, overloading Contacts to represent living individuals or groups and a software application. However, sharing a timeline item, such as images or video, requires a contact to share it with. So let’s make do.

If you create a contact, coupled with a subscription to a SHARE event, then your Glassware can respond to notifications from timeline items that your application didn’t create, such as photographs.

We’ll expand Lunch Roulette again, this time by letting users share photos ...