PHP Development for Google Glass with Phass

John Coggeshall@coogle

Welcome! Thanks for coming to my talk!

A little about me

- Core PHP Dev

- Author

- Speaker

- Aquarium Hobbyist

Building GlassWare

Building GlassWare for Google Glass comes in two different flavors-Native Applications - (Java-based Android SDK)

-Web Applications - (Whatever you want, JSON API)

This talk is going to focus (obviously) on Web applications

Building GlassWare – Getting Started

Building GlassWare using the JSON API (called the Mirror API) is relatively straightforward

-https://developers.google.com/glass/

Before we get started, let’s review some basic Glass concepts

Building GlassWare – Terminology

The glass interface is represented primarily as a series of ‘cards’ chronologically ordered in a timeline

Timeline cards are HTML/CSS

- Can contain payloads (video, audio, etc.)

- Can be grouped into bundles of cards

Building GlassWare – Terminology

Things your Glass interacts with (i.e Sharing) are ‘Contacts’

- Contacts can be individuals (Share with Sue)

- Contacts can be applications (Share with Twitter)

- Building a feedback loop between glass and your application will require a contact

Building GlassWare – Terminology Your Glass application can

‘subscribe’ to events happening on glass and interact with them

- Timeline card events for cards you create (i.e. card is inserted, deleted, etc.)

- Subscribe to location events (i.e. user is located at these GPS coordinates updated every 10 minutes)

- Subscription notifications are handled through URI callbacks.

Building GlassWare – Example

Here’s a few examples:-User takes a picture, shares with the ‘Twitter’ contact, which posts the picture to their feed

-Your app receives a location update, and inserts a timeline card which shows the closest bar

-Your app on a periodic basis inserts a kitten video into the timeline, and based on feedback (i.e. deleted?) automatically curates future videos.

Introducing Phass

So what’s Phass?

Phass is a Zend Framework 2 component which abstracts away all of the plumbing for your Glass applications

- OAuth2, Notification Events, Dealing with Attachments, Timeline items, Contacts, etc.

Of course, it’s open source and available on Github: http://github.com/coogle/phass

Introducing Phass

The Goal is to like all frameworks, let you focus on your app and not the details- I.e. automatically creating the proper user context when a location event comes in, so you can focus on what to do when the event happens

Designed as a ZF2 module intentionally – can be loaded up and immediately used by any ZF2 based application to make it Glass-friendly

Phass Demo App

To facilitate both testing and assist people, there is a demo application for Phass as well

-http://github.com/coogle/phass-demo-http://phass.coogleapps.com/

We’re going to use this demo app to walk you through some of the basics of using Phass to build Glass applications of your own!

…. Bring on the demos!

Upcoming enhancements

More powerful view rendering based on common Glass card UIs

-https://developers.google.com/glass/tools-downloads/playground

Implementing some of the less-used API calls that I haven’t gotten to yet

Bug fixesWant to help? Pull Requests welcome!

Questions? Thanks!John Coggeshall

@coogle

http://github.com/coogle/phasshttp://github.com/coogle/phass-demo

http://phass.coogleapps.com/