What you need to know
Third-party Android developers will soon be able to create custom Tiles for their Wear OS apps.
A new "Tiles API" commit has been posted to the Android Open Source Project.
Currently, Tiles are limited to Google's own Wear OS apps.
In May 2019, Google finally added widget-like "Tiles" to Wear OS. Unfortunately, however, Google still hasn't added support for custom third-party Tiles to its wearable platform. Thankfully, it now looks like this could finally change later this year.
The folks over at
9to5Google have spotted a code change that was recently posted to the Android Open Source Project, which confirms Google is working on a "Wear Tiles API." As the name clearly implies, the "Wear Tiles API" will make it possible for Wear OS developers to create custom Tiles for their apps.