In Wear 2.0, standalone applications are powerful feature of the wear ecosystem. How cool it will be using wear apps without your phone nearby! There are various scenarios in which Wear devices used to be phone dependent, for example, to receive new e-mail notifications, Wear needed to be connected to the phone for Internet services. Now, wear devices can independently connect to Wi-Fi and can sync all apps for new updates. The user can now complete more tasks with wear apps without a phone paired to it.
Standalone applications
Identifying an app as a standalone
The idea of a standalone application is a great feature of the wear platform. Wear 2.0 differentiates the standalone app through a metadata element in the Android...
