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Wallace JacksonSmartWatch Design Fundamentals https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4369-5_1

1. Smartwatch Design History, Concepts, Terms, and Installation

Wallace Jackson1 
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Lompoc, CA, USA
 

In this first chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s look at the history of some of the popular smartwatches of the past decade, some of the concepts involved with smartwatches, as well as popular terminology used for watch face design components.

First we’ll cover some of the popular smartwatches released under the Android (Google) and Tizen (Samsung) operating systems. As part of this, we will cover smartwatch development platforms such as Android WEAR, WEAR2, and Tizen as well as popular terminology. This book covers ...

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