Android Wear 2.0 is a prominent update with plenty of new features bundled in, including Google Assistant, standalone applications, new watch faces, and support for third-party complications. In previous chapters, we explored how to write different kinds of Wear applications. Wear 2.0 offers more with the current market research and Google is working with partner companies to build a powerful ecosystem for Wear.
In this chapter, let's understand how we can take our existing skills forward with the following concepts:
- Standalone applications
- Curved layouts and more UI components
- Complications API
- Different navigations and actions
- Wrist gestures
- Input method framework
- Distributing Wear apps to the Play store
