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