There's something awesome to
watching notifications pop - up from strangers and friends requesting frenzied help to unlock that quarry.
Not exact matches
Android Wear's main purpose is to show users their
notifications at a glance but sometimes there are certain
notifications that you just don't want to
pop - up on your
watch.
There are also a few glaring omissions, like a lack of turn - by - turn
notifications from Google Maps, and informational
pop - ups that are more
watch - specific like boarding information from airline apps.
The Gear 2 works with just about every
notification you could dream of
popping up on your
watch, and to make each work, just check it off from the list of
notifications on the accompanying Gear Manager app.
MyGlass, the service that allows you to sync to Android phones, now targets OS version 5.1 Lollipop, with
notifications capable of
popping up on Wear
watches and in front of your eyes simultaneously.
Google included a couple features that make the iOS experience better as well: the Android Wear app will automatically block duplicating
notifications from different apps, and
watches will give you the option to «block app» when a
notification pops up on the
watch's display.
But once you see a
notification pop up on the
watch face, you'll discover that this behemoth of a
watch is something completely different — an Android Wear smartwatch.
However, the permissions you need to assign to the app are pretty broad if you want all that to happen — Pebble needs your Gmail passwords and access to all of your
notifications, for instance, if you want to see them on your
watch — and there are still omissions, so for instance Twitter direct messages don't
pop up yet.
Android Wear 5.1.1 comes with Wi - fi support for the
watches which opens up the capability to connect to Wi - Fi and allow for
notifications to
pop to your wrist.
And it's definitely better than the first
Watch: a couple days ago I put the
Watch on first thing in the morning,
popped the display up to full brightness, went through a day of
notifications, used GPS during an hour - long bike ride, and still had 20 percent battery left later that night.
If you get a call, message or
notification then that will
pop up on the main screen of the
watch and cause it to vibrate to alert you to it, at which point you can interact with it or clear it.
There's your watchface, which you can swipe left or right on to change; your
notifications, which you swipe up from the bottom to see; your settings, which you swipe down from the top to access; and your list of apps, which
pop up after a single press on the
watch's main button.