Tuesday 8 July 2014

Android Wear notifications

We are right at the beginning, in a new phase in the miniaturization of the technology. Which means it finally possible to make a powerful computer  small enough to wear comfortably all day long on your body. Android Wear is a platform for wearables based on Android, Android Wear makes it easy for developers to rich users on this new form factor, using precisely the same tools we already familiar with on Android phones and tablets.

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Google knows that style is important that's why Android wear supports both circular and square screens to match you style demands. Sensors will help Google to understand your context, so that they can provide you the useful information when you need it and also help you reach your fitness goals. Your watch will provide also intelligent answers to spoken questions. And across the world people check their Android phones an average of  125 times everyday, that's why Android wear is designed to quickly show the relevant information  and make sure you never miss an important messages, lets say it will engage you with the people  you are actually with. Google do this by working to understand the context of what you care about.

Android wear notifications type

Android wear will show you Always-ON display on your watch, that at any given time it surely do the most important things that Google knows for you. Throughout the day if you receive a notification which buzzes your phone, than your watch will vibrate on your wrist and will show you what's up in a glance, so that you won't miss a message. Swiping up and down navigate you through the stream of cards, which includes information from Google now and apps running on your phone and app running directly on your wearable. Also page indicator will allow you to see more detailed information. Just like your phones notifications shade, you can swipe a card away to move it from you screen and that notification will disappear. Pressing and holding will let you allow to choose the different styles suits your taste.
Android wear can work for you to show you important notifications like weather forecast, map navigation, allow you to set reminder through voice commands, and immediately sync your phone at the same time. Also when you swipe a notification from your watch, the same notification will disappear from your phone as well. And apps will stay and sync too. You can ask question to get brilliant answers from you wearable. you can receive/reject phone call or swipe up to send one of the quick message from you watch. You can swipe down to set do not disturb mode until you want and vice versa, you can control other device with your wearable like playing music, changing track etc, you can set an alarm with voice actions, you can track the steps you take also can see the step taken week history and also if the device support heart sensor, you can even detect your heart rate. these all thing an Android Wear can do for you.

Android wear SDK

Android Wear SDK enables you to build glance-able and contextual apps for this new category of this device. Android wear automatically bridges notification from your android phone or tablet to your watch, Android notification APIs already allow you to build beautiful user notifications with big pictures action and more, and there are hundreds of thousands of apps delivering these billions of  notifications everyday. And now they are available on your wrist.
Android wear Devices

You can install apps on wearable by installing app from play store on your phone, when a watch is connected than the wearable portion of the app is automatically installed and kept up-to-date  on that watch. And now you can buy one these device like (LG-G watch, Samsung Gear live, And Moto-360 ) from Google Play Store, and also the good news is all of these devices are water resistant so you can wear them without any extra care you do with your phone. And also full Android wear SDK is available wich enable you to write code which runs directly on your phone, and almost all the APIs you are familiar with Android are avaialble here , are available, that means you can fully customise UI, read sensors directly and much much more also new set APIs in Google play services that makes it easy to send data between phone, tablet or wearable. See more on developer.android.com/wear.