hey what's up everyone this is dom and today we're checking out Android Wear.
this is Google's official operating system solution for smart watches!
it made specifically to run on small wearable devices
like a SmartWatch and it's definitely something that can become a mainstream
solution. Google is definitely the type of company that can take it there.
now along with that Motorola announced its new 360 SmartWatch
and we also had a little sneak preview of LG's
G watch so both of those watches are coming out here in the near future
but meanwhile I'm gonna give you guys a little preview
of the beta version of Android Wear
I went ahead and installed the SDK and we're going to take a full on walk
through
So I can kind of show you guys what it looks like. so let's not waste any more
time
and jump right in.. So I went ahead and installed the Android Wear SDK, got the
emulator up and running, and installed the Android Where preview app on my HTC
One
now the preview app is only required to make the connection between your device
and the emulator so that it can send notifications like this one right here
which is a text message
and this is exactly how it will operate on a SmartWatch. We have the ability to
swipe
over here and we can open it up on the device and hopefully in the future will
have the ability to reply to it with our voice but this is just kind of what a
default notification looks like on
Android Wear and that is coming directly from my HTC One so when i send
a message to my HTC One
we have it pop-up on the Android Wear
emulator over here exactly as a will look on a SmartWatch
or another type of wearable that runs this operating system. Now as I mentioned,
because this is a beta,
we only have one option here, which is to open the message on our device and we
can go ahead and do that
and at once you open a message or you'll dismiss the notification
you will actually be taken back to what I like to call the home screen. I
know this looks rather boring it's just a black screen with a button and the
time
but don't worry there will be actual watch faces. Motorola
is working on some like this for the Moto 360 so
we will have a nice elegant watch look on the front face of
this device when it's all said and done. Jumping back to the home screen as you
can see here that we have this little Google button
and that is to invoke Google Now. This will actually pull
up the ability to
perform voice commands but that is not available in the preview so I can't really
show you
how that works in this demo but just imagine an "Okay Google"
on at your watch.. That is exactly what this will do. Now here comes another
notification
and as you can see it kinda pops up with half of it showing
now all you have to do is kind of Swype up on that to be able to see the full
notification
and then you have the option to open it up possibly reply to it whatever the
options maybe I'm sure we'll see many more
in the full release of Android Wear but for now we can also swipe
the other direction to dismiss the notification so as you can see right
here on the HTC One we have a tweet coming in which then shows
up on Android Wear in the former this little Twitter notification with the
icon there
"don't tweet me follow me I'm such a fan" Well, to follow him but
you I should follow him @JBtech17 if you don't. Thanks to him for helping me
test this out
Android Wear but as you can see when we swipe over here we have the reply option
we have the Retweet, we option we have favorite, and we can
open up the app. In the background that his avatar from Twitter so it's
kinda cool that Google's taking existing information
and turning into something usable on Android Wear
now I'm not sure if Twitter already had this implemented maybe they got
kind of a heads up and already made it happen but it's nice to know that outta the box
there will be at many third-party applications tthat will already support Android
Wear
when at these devices start rolling out in the near future. In its basic form,
Android Wear is going to push notifications to your device for pretty much
anything
as you can see here I got a favorite that came through from Twitter so
it pushed it to the Android Wear emulator where we have the same options
to
open up the app or dismiss it by swiping the other direction as you can see here
I got an email and the same thing happens we have my avatar pull up in the
background kinda blurred out
and we have the ability to archive the message we can reply to it,
or we can open up the app. If we click on reply it actually going to open
up
the email on the device. Obviously that wouldn't be a desirable thing
we would rather reply to it with our voice but that's not implemented yet
in it this preview version but I'm sure voice commands will be in the future
and as you can see there like I said voice commands are disabled so
hopefully we'll be able to reply with our voice and hopefully it's good enough
to do so
without having to pull out our device are open at the app like this
and do it with by hand. As you can see here I have a call coming through but
nothing is showing up on Android Wear
and I'm sure that's not permanent functionality everybody it'll definitely
show up once they're finished with all this stuff but
when the call is over, I actually get a notification that lets me
know that I missed the call
and from there I have the typical options that you would imagine
with a notification based on Android you now you have the ability to
call the person back or we can go ahead and message them
or open up the actual app and as you can see it's a little glitchy right now but
this
is a beta version so keep that in mind now one last thing I did wanna show you
here is the Android Wear preview app in
there's absolutely nothing going on here this just a allows you to connect it to the
emulator via a USB cable but in the future I'm sure there will be a management app like
this
for Android Wear devices and will probably have like an app store or
something like that where we'll show you different app sitter available that will
work with your device so
this is the Android Wear preview app, like I said absolutely nothing special
kinda just a placeholder for what is to come in the future so
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