14 DAY TRIAL // You might recall that after making its wearable dedicated OS, Android Wear official, Google posted a video entitled “What Developers Need to Know,” in which it provided a series of guidelines and explaines what Android Wear’s main focus was.
Since there’s not much time left before Google’s I/O Developer Conference where the search giant is expected to make a more in-depth presentation of Android Wear, Google is getting curious about what developers have been up to.
With this in mind, the company is asking those who have already designed apps for the upcoming smartwatches to submit their work, in order to receive some instructive feedback.
But that’s not all, developers sending in their work now will be granted the opportunity to show their results on Google Play and during the I/O conference itself. That sounds pretty swell, especially if you’re looking to be in the spotlight.
“Developers, have you created an app you would like to get in the hands of the first wave of Android Wear users? If you have, we’d like to see what you've build,” the official Google request goes.
A while ago, Android Engineer Sagar Seth talked about the purposes of Android Wear in a video. But those hopping Android Wear was all about providing a complete smartwatch experience, by virtue of stand-alone apps, were heavily disappointed by what was stated in the clip.
Apart from inviting developers to adopt simplicity when designing an app, Seth also made it quite clear that Android Wear “[is] not a full-fledged application sitting on the wearable itself, it’s just notifications. It’s making the information available when you need it to be. Your notifications should have a priority attached to it.”
Bottom line, the goal is to keep the wearable for notifications, so no Angry Bird-playing for future owners of the Moto 360 or new LG smartwatch.
Google announced its dedicated wearable platform back in March. It also rolled out the SDK developer preview and made it public news that Motorola and LG are going to be the first companies rolling out devices with Android Wear on top.
Samsung is also expected to launch a wearable running the same OS by the end of the year and the official Android Wear list includes other notorious players in the tech industry like HTC.
Anyway, going back to Google’s request this week, the company is inviting developers to send a link to their Android Wear APK and open source code (optional) to the following email address: [email protected].