Introduction to Android Wear

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Android Wear runs on a variety of devices, including the first-generation Motorola 360, LG’s G watch, and the Samsung Gear Live. A second generation, including Sony's SmartWatch 3, has also been released with additional capabilities including built-in GPS and offline music playback.

Xamarin.Android supports Wear through our Android 4.4W (API 20) support and the NuGet package that adds additional Wear-specific UI controls.

The latest Xamarin.Android 5.0 Preview includes additional functionality for packaging your Wear apps - and can be downloaded here.

Devices

Some of the devices that can run Android Wear:

Further Reading

Check out Google's Android Wear documentation:

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