
Google Asks Glass Developers To Start Working On Android-Based Apps Ahead Of Glass Development Kit Launch
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It looks like Google is about to unleash a new wave of more powerful applications for Google Glass. Currently, Glass developers can only build apps that are essentially web-based services that talk to the user’s hardware through a set of relatively limited APIs. At its I/O developer conference earlier this year, Google announced that it would soon release its so-called Glass Development Kit (GDK), which would let them build Android-based apps for Glass that can run directly on the device.
So far, however, Google hasn’t launched the GDK. Instead, Google today encouraged developers who are waiting...