Google offers to start developing applications for Google Glass before the release of the Glass Development Kit

It seems that Google is going to give impetus to the wave of more powerful applications for Google Glass, writes TechCrunch. Currently, Glass developers can only create applications that are essentially web services that interact with glasses through a set of relatively limited APIs.

At the I / O conference earlier this year, Google announced that it would soon release the Glass Development Kit (GDK), which will allow the creation of Android applications for Glass that work directly on the device. So far, however, Google has not released the GDK. Instead, Google yesterday urged developers who are waiting for the GDK to start working on Android apps for Glass, using the standard Android SDK (API Level 15) to try out their ideas.

As Google notes , developers can use the SDK to access sensors, render OpenGL and use stock Android UI widgets. Through the SDK, developers can also access the Glass accelerometer.
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The glasses themselves work on Android 4.0.4, so this is quite a familiar platform for many developers. The company has released a number of typical applications (stopwatch, compass and level) that show what developers can do with Android in Glass.

Over the next few weeks, Google is going to release several more applications, and after the release of the GDK using these applications as an example, “demonstrate the migration path from a traditional Android application to a full adaptation for Glass”.