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Image: Google There are a lot of reasons why Google’s Wear OS as a smartwatch platform is so frustrating. It lacks the advanced health features you see from other wearables makers, nearly all the available watches are still reliant on outdated chips, and historically, Google hasn’t been the best at delivering timely updates. Recent attempts to fix all that have been encouraging, but still prettyminor. However, an Android Developers blog notes that third-party tiles are coming to Wear OS, and for once, I’m excited for the possibilities. Advertisement Google introduced Tiles back in 2019 ...

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Google now lets developers make their own Wear OS Tiles Mar 12, 2021 22:18 EST with 3 comments Google has announced the alpha release of the Jetpack Tiles library which allows third-party developers to create custom Tiles on Wear OS smartwatches. Since 2019 when Tiles were brought to Wear OS, users have had to make do with just six tiles but this will soon change. While developers can now get to work on their own custom Tiles, users will have to wait for a platform update to Wear OS which Google plans to release later in the spring. Once developers get to work on t...

Every time we share the sad story of Wear OS and how it always seems on the brink of being put to bed, Google randomly shows up and tells us about some sort of new feature on the horizon or that...

About two weeks ago, Google released the first Android 12 Developer Preview, giving Pixel owners and developers a glimpse of what's to come. At first glance, there really aren't too many changes, but once you start diving a bit deeper, the changes become more apparent. When Android 12 is coming to your phone In fact, it seems there are quite a few features that Google isn't ready to put in the hands of developers, including the new "Silky Home UI" found within the Settings app. Instead, you'll have to mess around with ADB and the Command Line if you want to even a...