The previous Android
Wear app interface was a huge, confusing mess, but thankfully it has been de-cluttered.
The other day we mentioned some of the changes coming to the Android
Wear app interface with the upcoming latest update.
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Android
Wear 1.5 just synced watch - friendly
interfaces for the
apps on your phone, but Android
Wear 2.0 has its own Google Play Store complete with standalone watch
apps.
You know that
app that you use to
interface your phone with the Android
Wear smartwatch on your wrist?
In addition, Android
Wear 2.0 features a new user
interface based on Material Design, boasting a redesigned card stream and a brand new application launcher, which offers the option of rearranging
apps or adding them to favorites.
This main companion
app, aptly named the ZenWatch Manager, can be found for free on the Google Play Store and is the best way to
interface with your ZenWatch over the Android
Wear app for many tasks.
There are currently 30 or so
apps that have been updated to support Android
Wear, the most useful of which mirror smartphone functionality without cumbersome
interface or design.
As Moto 360 uses Android
Wear as its operating system, it shares the same user
interface, navigation, features and
apps that we are already familiar with on the LG G Watch and the Gear Live.
However, the Android
Wear interface involves too much swiping, and developers haven't released many optimized
apps.
There's still no word of a sequel watch from Motorola, but the second generation Moto 360 is still worth the purchase in 2017 because the Android
Wear 2.0 update is available, bringing native
apps and a generally slicker user
interface to the forefront.
Android
Wear 2.0 also includes tweaks to the
interface, standalone
apps, and widgets known as «complications.»
It doesn't always scroll through every screen, however: some
apps aren't optimized for that yet, including some screens in the Android
Wear 2.0
interface, strangely.
Android
Wear has more
apps and Google Now integration, but its swipe - happy
interface is more of a chore to navigate then the Gear S2's.
For $ 14.95 a year, the
app offers an evolving suite of features and an easy - to - use
interface for smartphones, tablets and even Android
Wear smartwatches.
Android
Wear 2.0 introduces a number of highly anticipated features, including numerous changes to the user
interface, such as a new
app launcher, a new notification design, as well as a new watch face picker.
WOD is an interesting little Android
Wear app that is currently in development, but it's main function is to connect your watch to a compatible Bluetooth OBD III
interface and show you some of the data.
Why I say this is needless is because it doesn't actually
interface with the watch, it redirects to the Android
Wear app when choosing the Q Founder, which leaves the Q
app to give you a persistent notification that there's no device connected...
Both watches have responsive performance for their
interface, but
apps can still take a long time to load, especially if they haven't been updated to support
Wear 2.0.
It won't run Android
Wear and isn't going to have an
app store, but the user
interface we played with worked well and was very intuitive.