![]() If you’ve used Glass, you’re familiar with the "timeline" paradigm - time-ordered cards from your interactions with Glass stack up to the right of the home screen. Perhaps the two biggest user-facing innovations that the GDK will allow are "live cards" and a focused, immersive experience. Android developers should feel right at home in the GDK - Jordan stressed that Google "worked really hard to make sure that if you’re an Android developer, developing for Glass would feel natural." ![]() ![]() Apps can run in offline mode, they can get "real-time user response" without having to ping the cloud, and GDK apps can access the Glass hardware directly - which means new apps can take full advantage of the built-in GPS and gyroscope, for example. Jordan highlighted a few key ways that the GDK differs from Mirror. At a Glass hackathon today in Google’s San Francisco offices today, the company's senior development advocate Timothy Jordan finally took the wraps off Google’s new tool to let developers build Glassware that matches the feature set of the company’s own apps. ![]() Now, developers will have a whole new set of tools at their disposal: the long-awaited Glass Development Kit (GDK). Back at SXSW, Google announced the Glass Mirror API - the first step in allowing developers to build apps, or "Glassware" for its wearable computing device. ![]()
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