![]() If you swipe to the left you will get more options depending on the running app. If you are on the home screen of the watch and you perform a swipe down from the top of the screen you will get access to settings option and information like sound and the battery level. The touch screen offers different types of gestures as well as navigation options. In the following picture you can see the LG G Watch R as an example.Īll Android Wear watches are offering a capacitive touch screen, either round or in a square body. Basically there are 4 main input methods on all Android Wear watches. ![]() Let’s start with the input and interaction methods most of the watches are offering. Since there are so many Android watches available, I will write the following sections about the input methods, the connectivity as well as the hardware and software features in a generic way to meet most of the watches. This two form factors (round, square) are officially supported by Google. The manufacturers have the freedom to decide if they want to produce the watch in a round or square version of the watch body. 2016) more than 10 Android Wear watch manufacturer are on the market. Another good starting point are the trainings provided by Google on how to build wearable apps.Īt the time of writing this post (Feb. When the emulator is up and running you can take a look at the wearable examples, download and install the sample apps on the watch to get familiar with the new environment. With the help of the AVD (Android Virtual Device) manager you can configure and start a watch emulator. To get the watch Emulator up and running you need to install the latest Android SDK. If you want to develop and test for Android Wear and you don’t have a Android based smartwatch yet, you can start with an Emulator. Several Android Wear design guides as PDF.The following links are the starting point for you, when you are new to Android Wear: On the Android Wear page, you get plenty of useful information about how to use the common designs, how to use cards and what which information to display on the small screen. As for every platform, developers, tester and especially designers must be familiar with the provided styleguides and rules. Lets start with the design guidelines of Android Wear. If you have read my previous posts about Tizen OS, watchOS and Pebble OS you know the structure of my testing series and you probably know what is coming now. This is a great step for all people working with wearable apps based on Android Wear, because it downsizes the amount of work. The main goal is to get a common look and feel as well as features on different watches, produced by various manufacturers. ![]() Google build this platform in a way that the UI is not customizable like Android for smartphones. Some of you might think, yet another fragmentation challenge is coming up, but this is not the case for Android Wear. Since Android Wear is open source many manufacturers already produced their own Wear based watches. The latest version based on Android 5.1.1 aka Lollipop (Version 6.0.1 aka Marshmallow is currently in roll-out stage). The platform was launched at the Google I/O 2014.Īndroid Wear is written in C, C++ and Java and is open source like Android. Android Wear, as the name already suggest is based on Android and is developed by Google. In this post I will write about Android Wear and the important features to know about this platform. However, there will be one more post with lots of testing ideas coming next week, so stay tuned for that. This is the 4th and last post of my smartwatch app testing series. ![]()
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