Google has point by
point its forthcoming significant upgrade for the Android Wear working
framework, which likewise at last conveys Marshmallow to the wearable OS.
Android Wear v1.4 will let clients play sounds and accept calls right from the
smartwatch (for those watches with speakers), offer new signal controls, and
permit clients to sort out and manage messages on WhatsApp, WeChat, Viber and
other texting customers, amongst different changes.
"There are a lot of
times when you have your hands full yet at the same time need to remain focused
of updates, messages, and calls. That is the reason Android Wear incorporates
things like voice activities and signals. What's more, today we're growing
these without hands choices in various ways," said Krystal Higgins, User
Experience Designer, Android Wear, on the organization blog entry on Thursday.
The clients can now
interface their Android Wear running smartwatches to their cell phones by means
of Bluetooth to make and accept calls without utilizing the handset. In any
case, for this, the smartwatch ought to incorporate a speaker. Starting now
there are just two Android Wear smartwatches as of now underway with speakers -
the Huawei Watch and the Asus ZenWatch 2 (49mm). Clients can likewise listen to
sound/video messages with applications such as Glide.
As of not long ago,
Android Wear clients could just flick their wrists to look all over in the
smartwatch's card stream. Be that as it may, the most recent redesign now
brings the capacity to grow a card, raise applications, and come back to the
watch face with a push, lift or shake motions. "You'll have the capacity
to stay associated with what's critical, while keeping your telephone (or other
hand) in your pocket," includes Higgins.
In conclusion, the
Android Wear v1.4 overhaul gives wearers sort a chance to out and direct
messages from applications such as Nextplus, Telegram, Viber, WeChat, and
WhatsApp - outstandingly, Hangouts support for the same usefulness has been
there since Hangouts 4.0 in August a year ago. The overhaul changelog likewise
says battery life upgrades alongside backing for six new dialects - in
particular, Mandarin, Cantonese, Indonesian, Polish, Dutch, and Thai.
Higgins says that the
upgrade will be taking off to all the Android Wear gadgets "throughout the
following couple of weeks." It will likewise be achieving Casio Smart
Outdoor Watch and Huawei Watch for Ladies.
The Android v1.4
redesign depends on API 23 and Android 6.0 Marshmallow, emphasizing over API
22. Wayne Piekarski, a Senior Developer Advocate at Google (Android), in a
Google+ post affirmed the take off time allotment and included that the SDK for
API 23 is now accessible for designers. "Note that you will at present
need to bolster API 22 watches in your Android Wear applications until the
rollout is finished. At the point when all Android Wear gadgets have the
overhaul, I will make a declaration and you can then evacuate API 22
bolster," he said. More subtle elements can be found on the organization's
Android Developer's blog entry. While neither the changelog or designer post
particularly says the consideration of Android 6.0 Marshmallow, Android Police
calls attention to that the incorporation of API 23 suggests this.
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