Google launched a program to train 2 million developers in India for its Android platform as its fires up a race with Apple Inc. for the country’s developers to create innovative mobile apps. This release sees the introduction of Platform API 24 to Android Wear, matching Android Nougat. This release also opens Android Wear’s wrist gestures feature to third-party developers.
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Google’s senior programme manager for Google Developer Training Peter Lubbers said: “India’s developer ecosystem is well-established globally and we believe that the Android Skilling program addresses the need to produce world-class, skilled-up developers and scale up the mobile developer ecosystem to help make India a global leader in mobile app development”.
Wearable Drawers Enhancements – We launched the wearable drawers as part of the Android Wear 2.0 Preview 1, along with UX guidelines on how to best integrate the navigation drawer and action drawer in your Android Wear app.
For Developer Preview 2, which Google says is still not ready for daily use-there will be at least two more previews before the final release in late 2016-Android Wear 2.0 picks up the following new features. Now, there is additional support for wearable drawer peeking, so it’s easier for users to access drawers as they scroll.
Other UI improvements. Developer Preview 2 also includes other UI improvements, such as automatic peek view, navigation drawer closure, and the ability to show the first action in a peek view.
Starting in DP2, developers will have access to wrist gestures previously reserved for scrolling through the notification stream.
So what’s new in the second developer preview of Android Wear 2.0?
“Since a year ago, users have been able to scroll through the notification stream via wrist gestures”. Now that the system is open developers, however, those developers will be able to incorporate the same concept into their apps and software. Wrist gestures improve Android Wear single-hand use and eliminate the need to operate the device using a tiny touchscreen.
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Android Wear 2.0 is fairly highly anticipated, and many are hoping it will fix numerous mistakes of the original Android Wear.
