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Android Wear
A version of Google’s Android OS designed for smart watches and other wearable devices. Android Wear integrates the functionality of Google Now into your smartphone and allows you to receive incoming notifications and alerts from it to your mobile device.
| First released | 2014 |
| Developed by | |
| Latest stable version | Android Wear 3.0 |
| Open-source | No |
| Used by | Motorola, Samsung, Asus |
Interesting facts
Android Wear is based on the same Linux kernel as its smartphone brethren and developers will need the latest version of Android Studio and the SDKs in order to cook up new apps, or amend their current ones for Wear compatibility.
