Questions tagged [google-glass]

Google Glass is a project to create a commercially-viable, next-generation wearable smart device in the form of a pair of glasses featuring a head-mounted display. The product allows users to interact with the device via voice and allows other smartphone-like functionality. Google Glass runs on Android with additional APIs for developers.

Google Glass is a research and development program by Google to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD). Google Glass runs and displays information in smartphone-like format hands-free and interacts with the Internet via natural language voice commands. The prototype's functionality and minimalist appearance (aluminium strip with 2 nose pads) has been compared to Steve Mann's EyeTap. (from wikipedia)

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Recording Audio on Google Glass

I'm trying to record audio using the glass gdk and am finding it quite problematic. I'm using media recorder and have all the right permissions, but I keep getting media recorder 100 errors. My code looks something like this: mMediaRecorder = new…
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Is TextToSpeech supported on Google Glass?

I was wondering if TextToSpeech is supported on Google Glass? I did something like this: public class TextToSpeechController implements TextToSpeech.OnInitListener{ private Context mContext; private TextToSpeech tts; public…
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GDK picture intent gets stuck on Tap to accept

Today the picture function on my Glass app stopped working. It was fine yesterday, but now it gets stuck on the Tap to Accept Picture. I think it may have something to do with the new (to me at least) way it handles pictures as well as the…
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Android BLE: cannot write a Characteristic (no PROPERTY_WRITE)

I have an Android (Glass) application that acts as a BLE central and connects to a BLE peripheral (which is an iOS device using Core Bluetooth). I am trying to read from and write to the peripheral. Reading works fine (and receiving notifications…
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Google Glass goes inactive after ten seconds of use

Actually, this is not a question. Just wanted to help other Glass developers if they are running into a similar problem. I just received my Glass a few days ago. It is running XE17.2. It had two problems. 1) It would shut down in 10 or 20 seconds of…
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Test Stopwatch app on Google Glass Launcher on Samsung s4 device

I've installed GDK on my eclipse. I've imported sample stopwatch app on eclipse. Now i want to test this app on my Samsung S4 device(4.4.2). How to test this app ? I've read below…
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ListVIew on Google Glass

Is there a possible way to implement a list on Google Glass that looks and functions (Scrolling with head movement) like the list on the main Glass screen. The list I mentioned looks like this on Glass: I could not find any documentation on this so…
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Glass: How to gracefully exit on a downswipe to the main menu

For a Google Glass App, how do you make you app gracefully exit on a downswipe to the main glass menu? Trying this code in MainActivity: @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { …
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Registering Glass Timeline Notification with Node

I'm trying to register TAKE_A_NOTE with the 'mirror-api-subscription' event listener. I'm not having any luck: I can launch take a note with "my app", however, there's no console log that the event has been recognized. I would like to recognize…
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Is there an error on the Google Glass LiveCard sample code on the Developer Guides?

I was going through the GDK docs on LiveCards (high frequency) and I came across this line of code: mLiveCard.getSurfaceHolder().addCallback(new RenderThread()); RenderThread is a Class that extends Thread and does not implement any…
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How can I determine if my code is running on Google Glass?

I would like to create some utility classes to use on both Android phones and on Google Glass (using the GDK). There are some differences to take care of when running on Glass (e.g. getting location). Is there some static method call one can use…
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Unable to connect to Google Glass on Windows 7 (using ADT)

Environment: OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, SP1 (latest patches) Hardware: Dell XPS L702X (8GB Ram) Android Developers Tool (ADT): version adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20131030 Google USB driver: version 9 Google Glass: "v2" device running…
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Is it possible to take a photo using Google Glass without "tap to accept"?

I'm following the code here to capture an image with the Google Glass camera. https://developers.google.com/glass/develop/gdk/media-camera/camera#capturing_images_or_video Intent intent = new…
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Display image without gradient on static card in Glass GDK

When I make a static card with a FULL image layout, it looks like there's a shading gradient that fades from dark to clear from bottom to top. This is great for cards that have text, but if I don't have text, I'd like to see the image without…
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Google Glass: Is there anyway to cleanup the timeline

Google Glass makes it very easy for Glassware apps to 'liter' the timeline (especially with news items). Is there any easy way to clean/delete items you don't want? Many of these items cannot be deleted, and the apps themselves (like Winkfeed for…
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