Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 2 is Now Available With Wrist Gestures

In 2016 At Google I/O, Android Wear 2.0’s New Developer Mode Preview was launched. This launch will allow the developers an easy as well as quick entry to the next crucial launch of any Android Wear. Now Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 2 is launched and all the bugs of previous version are fixed in it. The launch is made to get more feedback so that the Android Wear 2.0 gets more improvements as well as updates according to the user needs. Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 2 has the wrist gestures option for the developers. Till now developers can test Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 2 on Watch Urbane Edition LTE or Huawei Watch. The Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 2 gives features of wrist gestures for developers; this extends the functionality to third party apps.

What’s new in Preview 2?

The Android Platform API is improved further to version number 24. In Android Wear 2.0 Previous Preview (Preview 1), the wearable drawers were launched in combination with the UX guidelines that suggests user to combine the navigation drawer in the best possible way as well as action drawer with any Android Wear Applications. In Preview 2, an extra support to wearable drawer peeking is added which makes it much easier for a user to access all these drawers easily by scroll. There are some more UI improvements such as automatic peek view, navigation drawer closure and first action show in Wearable ActionDrawer’s peek view. For the developer who wants to create customized wearable drawers, peek_view & drawer_content attributes are added in Wearable Drawer View. In this new version, the navigation drawer’s content can easily be edited or altered by calling notifyDataSetChanged. The Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview includes an SDK(updated version) with tools & system images which are provided for testing on official Android emulator, LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE & Huawei Watch.

Wrist gestures are available to users since last year and allow scrolling via the notification stream through wrist gestures. Now Google has provided this system to the developers so that they can use it within their apps. This new feature will help apps to improve the single hand use. Google mentioned that the Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 2 is a work in progress type version thus it is not intended for daily use yet. Google will also release additional updates as per user feedback and needs thus Google has announced that all the feedback from user as well as developers are requested to improve this version.