Android Wear is still in its early days, and so it’s really no surprise that there are parts of the platform that aren’t fully ready to go just yet. In particular, current Android Wear custom watchfaces arguably leave a lot to be desired as they employ several workarounds and act as standalone apps in order to work at all. This means that certain things don’t work just right, in particular the way the faces interact with incoming cards can be a bit wonky.
So what’s the deal here? Wayne Piekarski, a senior developer advocate at Google, has now taken to Google+ to clarify what’s going on. In his post he says that Google is still working on the custom watch face API and so he suggests that developers hold off on releasing their custom watch faces, at least outside of beta and alpha channels, until everything is ready — though obviously many developers have already ignored this advice.
So when will we see the API? While Google doesn’t give an exact timeframe, Piekarski does say that some of the changes needed for the API will require Android L, so we’d imagine that Android Wear users will be waiting at least a couple more months. In the meantime, if you want a custom watchface, you’ll have to put up with some of the potential issues and glitches found in the current unofficial offerings on Google Play.
from Android Authority http://ift.tt/1nOwVo8
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