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Starting Glassware
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You can start your own Glassware by declaring a voice
command that is associated with your Glassware. Adding a voice command
also adds a touch menu if your users choose to tap instead of speak
commands.
You can also start system-provided Glassware, such as navigation
or the web browser to carry out certain actions for you, so you don't have
to rewrite functionality.
Starting your own Glassware
For information on starting your Glassware from the Home menu (Clock card), see
the Voice developer guide.
Starting speech recognition
For more information on starting the speech recognition Glassware, see the
Voice developer guide.
Starting the web browser
See Web Browser
intents for more information on how to start the Glass web browser.
Starting settings
Use the following intents to display the settings card on Glass.
- Action
- Example
startActivity(new Intent(Settings.ACTION_SOUND_SETTINGS));
Starting navigation
Start the built-in Nav Glassware to get turn-by-turn navigation to a location.
- Action
ACTION_VIEW- Data URI Scheme
google.navigation:ll=<latitude>,<longitude>&title=<title>&q=<query>&mode=<mode>
ll - Coordinates of a location to navigate to. Do not specify query
if you specify this.title - Title to display for the place to navigate to.
Defaults to showing the latitude and longitude of the location
if you specified those properties or the name of the location if
you specified query.query - A string to query for places to navigate to. Do not specify ll
if you specify this.mode - Defaults to mru if not specified or d if mru does not exist.
Possible values are:
d - Drivingw - Walkingb - Bicycler - Transitmru - Most Recently Used.
- MIME Type
None
- Example
Intent navIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
Uri.parse("google.navigation:ll=37.4219795,
-122.0836669&title=Googleplex"));
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