Android Wear Team Talks about Effective Wear User Interaction

Google has given potential Android Wear app developers plenty of resources ever since its unveiling in March of this year. We first saw the Wear emulator around the time of the platform’s initial announcement. A couple of months later, Google showed us how to add rich Wear notifications to existing apps and gave us a few examples of Wear notifications done right. Now, Google brings us a video detailing Android Wear user interaction and how to bring Android notifications to Wear.

The video itself comes courtesy of Google Developer Advocate Timothy Jordan. It begins by covering the common pitfalls of smartphone user interaction and how Wear fixes this by reducing the time necessary to receive relevant information. Next, Jordan covers how and why the Wear interface differs from a traditional smartphone’s layout and why an app-based model doesn’t work well on a wearable. Then, the video talks about two-way interaction with Wear thanks to relevant notifications and voice interaction.

In addition to the user-facing aspect, the video also dives into Wear from a developer’s perspective. It talks about how simple notifications will simply work out of the box, with no developer modification required. This also extends to enhanced notifications with features such as music playback controls, which will make their way onto Wear without any developer effort. But in order to truly optimize Wear notifications, developers are also able to take advantage of Stacks, Pages, and Replies–all of which are covered in the video.

Are you looking forward to Android Wear from an end user perspective? Are you considering developing apps that take full advantage of the Wear platform? Let us know in the comments below.

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