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Introducing a new Text-To-Speech engine on Wear OS
Introducing a new Text-To-Speech engine on Wear OS

05 March 2024

Posted by Ouiam Koubaa – Product Manager and Yingzhe Li – Software Engineer Today, we’re excited to announce the release of a new T...


Wear OS hybrid interface: Boosting power and performance
Wear OS hybrid interface: Boosting power and performance

26 February 2024

Posted by Kseniia Shumelchyk , Android Developer Relations Engineer In collaboration with our hardware partners, we’ve continued to p...


Thank you for creating excellent apps, across devices in 2023!
Thank you for creating excellent apps, across devices in 2023!

19 December 2023

Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director of Android Developer Relations Hello Android Developers, As we approach the end of 2023, I wanted...


Wear OS 4 is now stable and available on Google Pixel Watch 2!
Wear OS 4 is now stable and available on Google Pixel Watch 2!

04 October 2023

Posted by Kseniia Shumelchyk , Android Developer Relations Engineer and Kevin Hufnagle , Android Technical Writer Google Pixel Watch ...


Compose for Wear OS and Tiles 1.2 libraries are now stable: check out new features!
Compose for Wear OS and Tiles 1.2 libraries are now stable: check out new features!

09 August 2023

Posted by Anna Bernbaum, Product Manager and Kseniia Shumelchyk , Android Developer Relations Engineer We’re excited to announce that...


Deezer increased its monthly active users 4X after improving multi-device support
Deezer increased its monthly active users 4X after improving multi-device support

26 July 2023

Posted by the Android team Deezer is a global music streaming platform that provides users access to over 110 million tracks. Deezer...


Peloton increased its multi-device support and saw an uptick in user engagement
Peloton increased its multi-device support and saw an uptick in user engagement

21 June 2023

Posted by the Android team The Peloton App makes it easy for people to work out wherever they want, whenever they want. From living ...


Designing for Wear OS: Getting started with designing inclusive smartwatch apps
Designing for Wear OS: Getting started with designing inclusive smartwatch apps

22 May 2023

Posted by Matthew Pateman & Mallory Carroll (UX Research), and Josef Burnham (UX Design) Smartwatches are becoming increasingly p...


Introducing the Watch Face Format for Wear OS
Introducing the Watch Face Format for Wear OS

10 May 2023

Posted by Anna Bernbaum, Product Manager We are excited to announce the launch of the Watch Face Format! We worked in partnership w...


Watch the Wear OS updates at I/O 2023
Watch the Wear OS updates at I/O 2023

10 May 2023

Posted by Kseniia Shumelchyk , Android Developer Relations Engineer As we continue to evolve the Wear OS platform, we're excited ...


Policy Updates: New Wear OS App Quality Requirements
Policy Updates: New Wear OS App Quality Requirements

28 February 2023

Posted by Ishaan Aggarwal, Product Manager Today we are announcing upcoming policy changes intended to improve the quality ...