I love just swiping around,
watching the app drawer expand and close, pulling the down and expanding the delightfully bouncy notification panel, and generally trying not to think about how it's all going to be ruined on other phones that cover it in proprietary software that doesn't look half as good.
I love just swiping around,
watching the app drawer expand and close, pulling the down and expanding the delightfully bouncy notification panel, and generally trying not to think about how it's all going to be ruined on other phones that cover it in proprietary software that doesn't look half as good.
Not exact matches
To open the settings on your
watch, swipe left to open the
app drawer, and tap the Settings icon.
It is a huge leap from Android Wear 1.6, with a host of new features including a new vertically scrolling
app drawer and additional custom
watch faces.
If your Android Wear
watch has multiple buttons on the body, these buttons can be programmed to launch specific
apps so you're not stuck frequently swiping through the
app drawer to get to them.
The interface was a single large cascading menu for you to interact with, but with Google Assistant replacing Google Now, and your
App Drawer living behind a button press, the physical button on the
watch is now the primary interaction mechanism, which is significant.
Everything is more accessible here, with your
app drawer of sorts easily reachable by pressing the top crown button on the
watch.
The
app drawer is now more easily accessed and is easier on the eyes, with
apps taking on new life as standalone local installations on the
watch itself.
The Samsung Tizen UI on the Gear S2 has a wonderful
app drawer that's one screen away from the
watch face, but its notifications disappear after a few minutes.
Luckily most of these
apps won't appear in your
app drawer, but it's certainly annoying to have to install so many
apps just to use your
watch.
Swiping left from the home
watch face's edge will take you to the
apps drawer.
The top one toggles between the
watch face and the
app drawer, and the bottom one is used to access fitness tracking (single - click) and Android Pay (double - click).
Now when you tap the
app drawer icon,
watch the animation.
Thanks to the
watch's 1.2 - GHz dual core ARM CPU, we found navigating around the UI extremely snappy as we swiped through the
app drawer and launched a couple of
apps.