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Android App Development India: Android Wear has Potential to become Greatest Tech Hyperlink InfoSystem Just a few days ago, we got to see a facet of the reaction from users for the Android Wear technology. Since, everyone is only testing the water right now, in the initial stages, the possibility is strong that only a limited amounted to devices were made available for sale. But it only took a few days of being open to the public to get completely sold out in India. And that's definitely a big news. Considering how Android Wear devices are pretty much at their infant stage and are not without a great amount of bugs and problems. And yet, people didn't think twice to buy them, and mind you they aren't very cheap, either. At almost Rs. 17,000 it costs as much a premium smartphone. But this is an interesting trend to witness as we had seen many people arguing against how wearable tech was something that was not going to gain any sort of traction is a smartphone saturated market. They argued how people would be against a device with a very small screen that couldn't even be used to navigate through existing apps and would end up becoming a huge nuisance for the users because of rogue notifications.

Android app development India professionals now have the full access to work with the newest platform from Google, as compared to a few months ago, where just a preview was released as a "taster" for what was about to come. As I mentioned above, although at the moment a the Android watch isn't something that you'd want to write home about. It definitely has the potential to be. Right now, wearables are more geared towards the health conscious crowd. Packaged as the users' portable health monitor/fitness coach. Google has been trying to get its watch to be as intuitive as possible. Boasting about interactivity withing the system itself for optimized performance for the user. For example, setting an appointment in your calendar can lead to the watch not only reminding you about the event but even invoking say the Maps to offer you a route to the set location even without you having to do anything extra.


Since, the driving force behind wearable is Google Now, users have a convenient method of accessing apps and interacting with messages without having to use their hands. But then again, it is still at a rough stage where some commands may not be effectively captured by the device and well, end up failing. The Google Play store has recently seen an influx of apps that have been optimized for the Wear as well, while these come in both the free and paid variety, a majority of them are released as free because of various reasons. Releasing the app as free means that Android application development India professionals have a good way of gauging the market and making sure that the apps perform as intended. The recent incident wherein users who got paid apps were having trouble installing the apps on the Wearables, shows how there is still a lot of room for improvement. It can be thought that although, the Android Wear relies heavily on an Android smartphone to function and that too, with only smartphones running higher than a certain version of the Android operating system. It might be a smart move on Google's side to develop it so that it can hold more on its on, instead of relying heavily on the smartphone. Well, I can understand that wearables are created to complement the Android experience of that of your phone, but there are more tasks that wouldn't want the user have to interact with her/his phone frequently.

Talking a bit more on the above point, by having Wear only be connected to Android phones means that all the other smartphone owners that aren't Android owners just don't have an option. There seems to be two possibilities in this scenario; one being Google's effort to rope in more and more users by the way of making their wearables support Android only. And the other being the more simple answer, this is just the beginning and Google will make is so that all platforms are supported by the watch. Talking about calls, many of us, I know I would, will have a bit of fun holding up the device up to our mouth to create notes which the device will in turn turn into text and send the caller, and make us feel


like secret agents, although for a few seconds. The absence of a speaker means that you can't really interact with actual phone calls, but that's something you might be mentally ready for, since well, it is actually a watch.

Android app development India professionals have a really good arena to play on, where they can be as creative as they can to create new and innovative solutions for the user. A good example of which is using your Wear to control the temperature in your house through NEST with just an easy voice command. Couple this with our homes getting smarter by each passing day, where for example the washing machine can communicate with different devices installed in your home to sync work. Out at work and have some laundry being washed in the machine? Well, don't worry, now NEST can communicate your arrival to the washing machine so when you actually go to take them out, they feel freshly laundered. Smart appliances would be able to notify authorities or someone next door in case smoke is detected. Connect your wear to your home system and have all important notifications at the tips of your fingers whenever you require. And with your car already going to be Android supported due to Google's efforts to bring Android to your car through Android Auto, Wear can offer even more in-depth information about your vehicle as well.


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