GLASSWARE: A long time story updating . . .

A long time ago, or what seems like a long time to me I began trying to program the Google Glass equivalent of a "hello world". The basic coding example which gets you started on the path to writing glassware which you can tinker with in a programmatical way. Such that you can make marketable and monetizable android apps! That's the goal right? That's all of course because you have really such a good idea for a glassware app. That idea is completely formed before you get on the keyboard and begin coding, I mean building (I'm being facetious), or at least half way through the completion of the project you hope. Preferably the final design will not look like some sort of Frankenstein monster, pieces of software code sowen together in harmonious tapestry. Because let's face it, this animal is very different from the other animals and if you haven't found that out yet, you will. To think of glass as just another phone, phablet or whatever, is the wrong way to start off looking at it. First and foremost it is a hands free wearable, this is mostly because of voice recognition input. No keyboard is necessary and I tell you Google is pursuing that strongly. They broke the keyboard after XE12 and haven't fixed it since. Anyway, this link should help out those of you who are struggling like me . . .Beginning Google Glass Development By Jeff Tang Also check my current list of helpful links here.

New Website for Apps Development

Moving fast, we have a new website domain for our Google Glass Projects called . . .

Smart-Glass-Apps.com

The Great App Idea

The napkin sketch...

Ideas for apps need to meet these criteria.

1. Must be easy enough to do by one person initially, but could be more difficult if it can easily attract others to help out.  This excludes those ideas which require a large allocation of resources.  Unless they are crowd sourced or done over a longer time period.

2.  Does no harm.  If it helps people even better...  This one is general but, think about the implications to society and legal consequences as well.

3.  It must be marketable and monetize, that means it has to be realistic enough to make money.   It can still be fun to do.  So games are not out, or anything else

4.  Must be something people want or will want to use.  This is obvious and sometimes not so obvious.  Must be well thought out because it has to become part of a daily routine of use.  They will want to tell others about it... etc.

5.  Hasn't been done already so many times that the competition will be fierce and will require significant effort to compete with other versions already out there, or soon to be out there.  If it's for a new device or platform, this maybe okay, but getting to market fast with a quality product becomes critically important.

6.  Should be a unique idea and not entirely easy to duplicate and brand as someone else's.  This one is your value add, your creative take on why this is going to be so great and why you can make it better than anyone else.  So much so that when they see it, they will say that's too bad it's already done... next idea!

7.  Something you want to be remembered for.

So there you have it, my magic list for a successful app idea.  If you can check off all the points listed, you probably have a great idea for an app, so don't just talk about, build it!

Apple iPhones Are Now Paired With Google Glass!

I guess its possible to pair Google Glass with iPhone.  This may give the best of both worlds iOS and Android.  For me personally I've done the iPhone and moved on to Android because I could re-purpose my programming skills in Java to Android Java and I already had a medical app in the Apple App Store.  Now I have one in the Google Play Store.  Everyone's needs skills help decide their choices...
This comic was way to LOL to not post here...click to expand. 

Posting by Youtube

I'm experimenting how to post videos to this blog, which makes it a vlog, through glass.
I think I prefer youtube better than via google+ route.  But maybe that's just me since they are both owned and controlled by google, I'm use to doing it with youtube, have channel there and know how to use video manager.  Also later I can process through my video vegas editor...  What's interesting is i would like to get Video Black working with a transfer from the sdcard on glass...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometer

Building Something on Google Glass

Well its official, I have begun hacking and learning Google Glass with the intention of developing a Glassware app. My best friend and I split the cost of the hardware, $1500. I have decided to blog about the experience. So far the hack has been one of the most difficult hacks. Below are the links I used so far (in somewhat a reverse order). We have the Glass XE12 hardware edition. The development system we are using is Windows 7 and Eclipse for Android. I have some programming experience with mobile app development on Android.  My friend has great skills which will fill-in my gaps, combined we have maybe 60 years of computer experience total.  Hopefully that will be enough to do the trick!

chromeADB for glass (accessing the ADB thru Chrome browser)

http://www.glassappsource.com/google-glass-how-to/installing-google-glass-apps-chromeadb-windows.html

Video Black (no screen image while recording saves battery)

http://www.edukun.com/

More useful links for hacking glass

The correct launcher to use for XE12

https://github.com/invisiblek/Glass-Launcher

How to install the settings.apk

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-IXKtbDGM5HS1ZBa0FJd2xodjg/edit

https://plus.google.com/+DanMcLaughlin/posts/X8GVGJvois7

Useful apps for Glass

http://www.popsci.com/article/gadgets/search-actually-useful-apps-google-glass

app list

http://glass-apps.org/google-glass-application-list

installed music player (done, but no music player yet: files must be anywhere on the sdcard partition on your Glass /sdcard/Music/ ... music files need to be transfered via adb push command, type adb <enter> to see command list and push command parameters)

https://github.com/Kennyc1012/GlassMusicPlayer

other app sources... etc.

http://www.glassappsource.com/google-glass

http://www.glassappsource.com/google-glass-how-to/easy-way-install-apk-google-glass.html

http://hackinglass.com/

this appears to be the proper latest instructions to follow... proceeding

http://divingintoglass.blogspot.com/2014/01/fixed-broken-custom-launcher-for-xe12.html

https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/332704837

Google Glass is Rooted!  Yeah, we forgot to turn the "debug on" again inside of glass after the factory reset.

Thanks again for your help, I will start installing recommended .apk files to access to regular apps and more control over glass...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21029790/why-fastboot-doesnt-work-for-xe12-under-windows-7

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/16/here-are-the-commands-you-need-to-gain-root-access-to-your-google-glass/

http://www.glassxe.com/2013/05/23/settings-apk-and-launcher2-apk-from-the-hacking-glass-session-at-google-io/

already done on your desktop and my laptop... but here is how it is done if we need to do it for another machine

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20390624/ddms-unable-to-see-google-glass

https://developers.google.com/glass/tools-downloads/system