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40 new and notable Wear OS apps and watch faces from the last 6 months (9/13/18 - 3/16/19)

Matthew Sholtz Matthew Sholtz
40 new and notable Wear OS apps and watch faces from the last 6 months (9/13/18 - 3/16/19)
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Welcome to the roundup of the best new Wear OS apps and faces that went live on the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous six months or so. Since our last collection, Google has changed the branding from Android Wear to Wear OS, and there are finally devices in the market that contain the new Snapdragon 3100 chip, which allows for more features, such as a visible second hand when the ambient mode is on. While I'm sure the progress of Wear OS isn't moving as fast as enthusiasts would like, there's no arguing the platform isn't dead yet.

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18 new and notable Wear OS apps and watch faces from the last seven months (2/25/18 - 9/12/18)

Matthew Sholtz Matthew Sholtz
18 new and notable Wear OS apps and watch faces from the last seven months (2/25/18 - 9/12/18)

Welcome to the roundup of the best new Wear OS apps and faces that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous seven months or so. It's been a slow process cataloging each Wear release since February, but I think we finally have enough to push out another roundup of the best Wear OS has to offer.

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21 new and notable Android Wear watch faces from the last 3 months (11/11/17 - 2/22/18)

Matthew Sholtz Matthew Sholtz
21 new and notable Android Wear watch faces from the last 3 months (11/11/17 - 2/22/18)

Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android Wear faces that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous 3 months or so.

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Play Music v8.5 drops 2 MB of dead weight by unbundling Wear app and fixes app shortcut adaptive icons [APK Teardown]

Cody Toombs Cody Toombs
Play Music v8.5 drops 2 MB of dead weight by unbundling Wear app and fixes app shortcut adaptive icons [APK Teardown]

A new version of Play Music is available this afternoon and it's making a big leap in versions from 8.0 to 8.5. This update doesn't come with the redesign that had seemed likely after last month's visual refresh to Play Music on Android TV. But cosmetic touchups were in the cards as the adaptive icons for app shortcuts were fixed in this release. Additionally, Play Music lost some megabytes after unbundling its Wear app.

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33 new and notable Android Wear apps and watch faces from the last 2 months (9/01/17 - 11/10/17)

Matthew Sholtz Matthew Sholtz
33 new and notable Android Wear apps and watch faces from the last 2 months (9/01/17 - 11/10/17)
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Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android Wear apps and faces that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous month or so.

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9 new and notable Android Wear apps and watch faces from the last month (7/20/17 - 8/30/17)

Matthew Sholtz Matthew Sholtz
9 new and notable Android Wear apps and watch faces from the last month (7/20/17 - 8/30/17)

Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android Wear apps and faces that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous month or so.

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37 new and notable Android Wear apps and watch faces from 9/1/16 - 7/19/17

Matthew Sholtz Matthew Sholtz
37 new and notable Android Wear apps and watch faces from 9/1/16 - 7/19/17
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Okay, you may have noticed that it has been quite a while since the last Android Wear Roundup. The good news is that I am here to take the reins and get this thing going again. Since it has been such a long while, there are quite a few items to go through. This is why I have split the post into two separate pages, as it was way too long for a single page. Rest assured, I will be making sure this Roundup has more of a regular schedule in the future. But hey, enough of that nonsense, let's dig into a super long list of Android Wear apps and faces!

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Google Messenger v1.9 is installable on Android 7.0 developer previews and restores Wear support [APK Download]

Cody Toombs Cody Toombs
Google Messenger v1.9 is installable on Android 7.0 developer previews and restores Wear support [APK Download]

If you're among the crowd that both installs Android developer previews and also owns an Android Wear watch, you've probably noticed some of the apps that belong on your watch have been missing. This happens because the stock apps included with the developer previews are missing the micro-apks for Wear. As the official release of Android 7.0 draws near, Google has been slowly releasing app updates that can install over the stock versions on the developer preview. And as of yesterday's stream of updates, Google Messenger joins that list.

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BBC News Adds Support For Android Wear In The Latest Version Of UK And Worldwide Apps

BBC News Adds Support For Android Wear In The Latest Version Of UK And Worldwide Apps

Michael Crider Michael Crider

"The Beeb on your wrist" might be mistaken for Cockney slang by some poorly-travelled American blogger, but in this case it's the latest feature to hit the official BBC Worldwide news app. The update to 3.2 for BBC News UK and BBC News Worldwide will send short snippets of stories to your Android Wear device. The only other changes are bug fixes and some layout adjustments for the primary, non-wearable app.

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BBC News on a watch is surprisingly usable. A title, header image, and short paragraph for each story are displayed in a sort of mini-RSS style. The layout lets you swipe horizontally and vertically: go up or down to move between the "Top Stories," "My News" (selected on the smartphone app), and "Most Read" categories, and swipe left or right to move between individual stories.

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[New App] Attopedia Is A Surprisingly Good Way To Browse Wikipedia On Android Wear

[New App] Attopedia Is A Surprisingly Good Way To Browse Wikipedia On Android Wear

Michael Crider Michael Crider

It seems like one out of every four searches I make sends me to Wikipedia for one thing or another - for example, the metric prefix atto- means 10 to the negative eighteenth power, or one quintillionth, or really quite amazingly bloody small. Google itself defaults to a lot of Wikipedia pages for its Knowledge Graph info, and you'll get small cards full of Wikipedia content for many searches from Android Wear. But developer Dheera Venkatraman (whose previous Wear apps Wear Camera Remote and Matrix face we've already written about) has an even better solution.

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Attopedia is a surprisingly effective Wear app for browsing full Wikipedia pages.

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