Your Wear OS smartwatch will soon get some much-needed visual polish.
Google has stepped up its bid to make Wear OS smartwatches look and feel as premium as the Apple Watch by introducing some major new design guidelines for apps running on its watch platform., which all Wear OS developers will need to follow from August 31, have been introduced to"improve the quality of apps for Wear OS and their presentation in the Google Play Store".
Firstly, all Wear OS apps and Tiles will have to use a black background, with all other colors banned. This could bring a couple of benefits. A black background can blend into the bezels of a watch like theThere's also a chance that black backgrounds in apps could help boost a watch's battery life and also improve their readability. This is why Apple also recommends that developers use black backgrounds in watchOS apps.
Lastly, Google's new guidelines should make it a bit easier to see when you have an ongoing activity, like a workout, running on a third-party app. App developers will now have to show an icon on the watch face when an activity is running, and also show this in the app's Tile .
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