There aren't enough Android
Wear apps available on Google Play to start pitting them up against each other (and we haven't yet had the chance to fully test them on Android Wear watches).
Google's version of Android for smartphones has only been around for a year and a half now, but there are some great apps available for the platform and if you're looking to make use of these small computers for fitness purposes, these are some of the best Android
Wear apps available for getting in shape, staying in shape or eternally kidding yourself that you'll get to it tomorrow.
Photo: Jeremy Lips / Tom's GuideGoogle does not release the number of Android
Wear apps available, but says there are more than 5,000 in the Play Store.
It's hard to say whether that amount of storage is sufficient, given the scant collection of Android
Wear apps available at launch and the inability to check on open space.
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The system also offers
available Apple Watch and Android
Wear compatibility through the NissanConnect Services
app — allowing remote engine start and stop, remote lock / unlock valet alert and more — along with Amazon Alexa Skill compatibility.
Imagine hooking up your shoes to a smartphone that has a compatible
app running on it, where you will then make your choice of
available patterns in order to match whatever you happen to
wear that day.
Minuum notes that «there aren't yet many
apps on Android
Wear built with text fields
available for typing» — most Android
Wear interaction is done through swiping or via voice — but they're apparently working with other developers to make it possible to use Minuum with as many
apps as possible.
With the new Google Fit
app, your watch can do much more to track your exercises in Android
Wear — count reps, monitor stair climbing, calculate distances traveled on foot or by bike, etc. — but the coolest feature of the Fit
app, Strength Training, isn't
available on the Style.
It's also compatible with Samsung Pay, meaning you can use the watch at quite a few more places than Android Pay, and although it doesn't run Android
Wear it does still have quite a few
available apps.
Head over to your
app list, scroll down to Play Store, and you'll be able to purchase, download, and install any
app that's
available for Android
Wear 2.0.
The number of quality third party
apps available for the Apple Watch are second to none (much better than Android
Wear's offering).
A new
app that is now
available for Android
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Android
Wear is getting more and more
apps available.
One of the latest things you'll see
available for Google's smartwatch OS is a new
app called Video for Android
Wear and YouTube, and if the title -LSB-...]
Right now Android
Wear devices are only compatible with, you guessed it, Android devices, this is because the Android
Wear companion
app is only
available on Android.
The beta version for the Android
Wear companion
app is getting some new changes, and is setting the stage for a new feature that will be made
available on Android
Wear smartwatches once Android
Wear 2.0 hits devices.
There are also thousands of watch faces
available to download through Galaxy
Apps, though you can't really argue the third - party face offerings are as robust as Android
Wear's on Google Play.
Earlier we told you about
Wear Face Collection, an
app that brings users a collection of
available watch faces for their Android
Wear -LSB-...]
In fact, almost all of the
apps Apple is planning are already
available on Android
Wear watches - Hangouts is here for all of your messages, Google Now surfaces appointments reliably and the
Wear Camra Remote effectively snaps pictures from your phone.
Many of the
apps available for Android
Wear coincide with their Android
apps.
The Telegram instant messaging (IM)
app is now
available on Android
Wear 2.0, its developers announced on Thursday.
Some Android
Wear watches will work with the iPhone, but many features (such as adding
apps and connecting the watch directly to Wi - Fi) aren't
available when the watch is linked to iOS devices.
The platform is still a long way from rivaling Android
Wear or watchOS in terms of official
app support, though you have more than a dozen new titles
available now or coming soon to the Fitbit Ionic.
Google promised that by the end of the day, the full Android
Wear SDK would be made
available to
App developers.
The SDK will be
available starting today and will come with all the necessary tools to enable easy development of
apps on Android
Wear.
Third - party
apps from Eat 24 and Allthecooks were also preened about, but the most newsworthy part of the Android
Wear announcements had to do with hardware: The
Wear - powered Samsung Gear Live was announced, with both it and the LG G Watch
available for preorders today.
Some third - party
apps are now
available on the Play Store to provide a dialer on Android
Wear - based smartwatches, but the platform itself does not support incoming or outgoing voice calling capabilities.
According to Google, there are a little over 4,000
apps available for
Wear and the update that was unveiled at I / O places them far more in the foreground.
Android
Wear has been
available for barely a month, and already developers are cranking out really interesting
apps with new functionality.
The same feature is
available on Meta's Android
app, and it behaves similarly to the Android
Wear app's notification controls.
Google made the full Android
Wear SDK
available to developers today, so they can start creating
apps for the system.
Update: The official Android
Wear iOS
app is
available right now, and you can find the link to download it below.
With Android
Wear 2.0, developers can also create standalone
apps that directly access the cloud when an Internet connection is
available.
Apart from this, you need to download PixtoCam for Android
Wear, which is a paid
app available on Google Play Store.
«Google isn't offering specific details on when we can expect to see more about Android
Wear — or what other devices will use the system in the future — but a preview of the operating system is
available now so that developers can make sure their
app notifications will work with
Wear.
A lot of these new
apps this month are watch faces, after all that's what the latest Android
Wear update to Android 5.0 was all about, and there are some great new additions
available.
Furthermore, the Sickweather Sick Zone alerts
available in the Sickweather Android application will now extend to the Android
Wear app, alerting users via their smartwatch whenever they enter a so - called «sick zone» — or areas where illnesses have been recently reported.
Google just announced that an Android
Wear app will be
available for iOS devices, meaning anyone can get an Android
Wear smartwatch and pair it to an iPhone.
Starting with the phone
app, dubbed «Ticwear Global» and
available from the Play Store, getting the watch connected is super-easy, and there's actually not too much different here from Android
Wear.
It doesn't run Android
Wear though and relies on MyKronoz's own proprietary OS, so there will be a limit to the
apps available for the smartwatch.
There are dozens of great
apps available for Android
Wear out there, but these five
apps are the ones we found were most important.
The number of
available apps for Android
Wear is increasing, and you can jump to a selection via the
Wear app on your phone.
This means that you can grab the
app from the play Store button below, but thanks to Android
Wear 2.0 that Google launched earlier this year the
app can also be installed directly from the watch itself now that the Play Store is
available on watches.
And check for the
apps which are
available for the Android
Wear devices, i.e. the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live for now.
Of course the
app doesn't do a whole lot if you haven't gotten your hands on an Android
Wear device, though it does give you a link to the Play Store with a list of all
available Android
Wear - supporting
apps.
Motorola has a separate Motorola Connect
app that complements the Android
Wear app, but it isn't
available for iPhones, nor is the Moto Body
app.
We reviewed the Gear Live before it was commercially
available, so the Android
Wear smartphone
app was about as barebones as it gets.
All of these
apps were
available for Android devices earlier too, but the thing to notice now is that these
apps are
available for the Android
Wear devices.