There are smart watches from Samsung, Sony and hundreds of tech brands, but none of them have made an impact with the wearable technology. Google with its Android powered platform want to exploit the immense possibilities of wearable technology with the introduction of Android Wear – a project that brings the open source Android to wearable.
Android Wear platform help developers to take their existing apps to wearable devices by taking advantage of Google services like Google Now, Voice commands, Map and others.
Google starts the Android Wear platform introduction with Smart Watches. It help to build watches with capabilities like –
Google has opened up the developer preview (Android/Wear) for Android Wear, where developers can download the SDK. It will help them to create wearable experiences for their existing Android apps and see how they will appear on square and round Android wearables.
Google plans to bring the Android Wear powered watches later this year (2014) and has already partnered with several consumer electronics manufacturers, including Asus, HTC, LG, Motorola, Samsung and Fossil Group.
This post was last modified on March 18, 2014 11:31 pm