The Android Wear app should be getting a pretty hefty update very soon. The app will obviously be transformed into Material Design, but a lot of goodies are in store.
Google is bringing the same battery information page for phones and tablets to Android Wear. You will be able to see what apps are affecting the battery as well as an estimated amount of remaining life. You will also be able to see how much of your storage is used.
The Android Wear app will now let you change your watch faces from within it. Of course the anticipated watch face API will release around the same time. With it brings the ability to add weather notifications to the faces. Here are the icons.
The ability to recover a mistakenly dismissed card has been requested by a lot of users, and Google will deliver. If you mistakenly swipe away a card, you can swipe up to get an option to undo.
A quicker way to adjust screen brightness has also been a big request. Other apps like Wear Mini Launcher take care of that, but Google is looking to give us some quick options natively. They are adding Theater Mode and Sunlight Mode. We presume Theater Mode will bring it down to a brightness level of 1, which probably isn’t dim enough for the movie theater. We also presume that Sunlight Mode will adjust the brightness to a level of 6. These options will be found in the swipe down gesture on your watch face. Right now, you get battery information and the ability to silence notifications, but a new menu will be added.
Those of you with vision impairment will be happy to know that Google is adding new features such as large text, color inversion, and magnification gestures. All of these features will be in the Settings menu.
Currently, taking a screenshot from your Android Wear watch is an absolute chore since you have to connect it to your computer and ADB it. It will now be a lot easier with the new update as you will be able to capture them from the Android Wear app.
Last but not least, the OK Google menu will now be sorted based on your most used functions.
How do these new features sound to you? Is there anything else you were hoping for that didn’t make the cut? I would like to see the ability to adjust the brightness of the “Always On” display, but hopefully that will come at a later date.
source: Phandroid
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