Programming an Intelligent Watch

Title: Programming an intelligent watch
Supervisor: Prof. Francis Lau
Student: Zhao Haozhi

Introduction

Figure1: The android watch.

A new android watch based on the Ingenic Watch Open Platform (IWOP) has been designed recently. The watch has excellent processor, memory and some other good hardware components. Since it has good hardware support, IWOP watch can realize more functions compared with a vast majority of other android wear devices. As for the system, IWOP watch is currently running the IWOP android wear system. The system is a modified version of android 4.4 system. The current system has several applications, including calculator, recorder, alarm, calendar, stop watch, music player, weather forecast, and album. However, almost all those applications have poor UI designs. The shape of the watch in this project is rounded, but most of those applications were designed to fit rectangular watch face. Thus, they cannot fit well to the rounded screen, and some parts of the applications’ layout cannot be shown on the rounded watch face. For instance, the keyboard of the input method in the system cannot be entirely displayed on the rounded screen, which seriously affects the normal use of the input method. Besides, the styles of the default installed applications are inconsistent. The button, font and color are not in the same style. Moreover, the system lacks some basic functions, such as some system settings and a power indicator. In a word, the original system is not so user friendly or powerful. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to modify the current IWOP android wear system. The new system will have a more user friendly design, more intelligence and more functions.