Tap That App: Hands On with Android Wear, Google's Evolving Smartwatch Platform
In this week's Tap That App, we take a hands-on look not just at a single app, but at the latest version of Android Wear and its app ecosystem.
Android Wear is the smartwatch OS from Google, introduced about a year ago as a way to unify how the many different smartwatches that have launched in the last couple of years operate, and of course to make sure Android smartphones are the top choice to pair with.
Getting Started
We tested the latest iteration of Android Wear, version 1.3, with a demo Moto 360 provided by Motorola and a Moto X Pure Edition 2015 running Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. To get started, you have to first download the Android Wear smartphone app, turn on your phone's Bluetooth (and leave it on), and startup the smartwatch.
Android Wear will then take you through the pairing process, which is not your typical Bluetooth pairing: it's much more complicated, while also being almost completely hands-off.
The app will pair, then run an update process to make sure your smartwatch has the latest Android Wear OS, and then it will search through your smartphone's apps and sync any (and every) one of them that's Android Wear compatible with the watch.
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