Android Wear Update Brings Interactive Watch Faces & Translation Functionality
Android Wear’s main focus was to keep users in the loop with “information at a glance”. And with the latest Android Wear update, Google extends the concept through interactive watch faces.
In simple terms, interactive watch faces are essentially like the widgets that you place on your homescreen. For starters, interactive watch faces reveal more information or activities when the user taps on them. This information or activity could range from displaying various infographic elements for appointments, messages, step counts etc, and even launching a specific app. The official blog post highlights a few interactive watch faces and also points towards a new promotional category in the play store for more such watch faces.
The latest Wear update also has an additional goodie in the form of baked-in support for Google Translate. This allows Android Wear users to have bilingual conversations without having Google Translate on their phone, or even when their device is not nearby (but is connected via WiFi). The update recognizes which language is being spoken and automatically translates text into the other (which can then be displayed to the other party), thereby allowing more natural conversations to take place.
August 25, 2015
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