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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 And...

Google is reportedly going to make it possible for third-party Android developers to create their own tiles for their Wear OS app. When Tiles — Wear OS’ widget-like access to apps — first launched, it only worked for Google’s own apps like Fit and the weather app. Now, however, a new code change in the Android Open Source Project spotted by 9to5Googlepoints to Google working on a ‘Wear Tiles API,’ which will allow Wear OS developers to create their own custom Tiles. Initial commit of Wear Tiles API. This checks in the app-side of the Wear Tiles API. Tests (and testing libs) have ...