Google has announced that it will be bringing the Android Marshmallow update to Android Wear devices soon, the company has said that the updated will be released in the coming months.
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Android M, or Android 6.0 Marshmallow, has been pushed to Nexus devices and introduced by HTC in its latest One A9 device.
In addition to the resource qualifiers, there’s support for external speakers as well.
Regardless, Cyanogen stands by its commitment to offer the necessary updates which were earlier rumored be coming out as early as next month (December) though this pertained to the CyanogenMod 13 based on Android 6.0 and not the commercial version Cyanogen OS 13. Finally, the last Asus device that will receive the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update (from this first official list) will be the Padfone S device.
The recently launched Tag Heuer Connected smartwatch supports Intel x86 processors and it’s expected that many upcoming Android Wear watches will have Intel x86 processors inside them. Despite the users’ demands for the company to create an API for fingerprinting processes for the current Oxygen OS, OnePlus has chose to switch to the standard Android M implementation instead. Android Wear developers, however, should ensure the apps are adaptable to both API 23 and API 22 watches. Worldwide Business Times added that Android Wear developers need to make their apps compatible with both API 22 and API 23 watches. When it comes to the devices we’ve mentioned above, the first Asus device that will get the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update will most likely be the Asus Zenfone 2 and the second one will be the Zenfone 2 Deluxe / Special edition.
Google began adding cellular connectivity to Android Wear, starting with the LG Watch Urbane 2 Edition LTE.
This support for the built-in fingerprint scanner will not be available in OxygenOS on OnePlus 2.
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Other features in the wearable include new emulators, an Intel x86 chip, “round and ‘not around” resource qualifiers that let developers upload accommodating images and layouts for their gear.
