On March 19, 2014, Google announced that it is a smart watch The new smart platform Android Wear created. Google has been rumored to enter the smart watch market for a long time, but the relevant details have been kept tight-lipped. At the 2014 I/O conference, Google officially released this wearable system.

Android Wear Why is so much attention, from The founding members of the Google Android Wear team, core designer Alex Faaborg and software engineer Liang Yuling will hold a workshop at the 2014 International Experience Design Conference to explain in detail to you.

Android Wear core designer Alex Faaborg

In recent years, the wearable device market has been very hot, and smart watches have become a battleground among them. However, it cannot be denied that without a strong platform support, smart watches appear isolated and boring, and the ugly design is also difficult to attract interest. Until 2014, Google extended Android to wearable devices and launched it as a wearable device. The Android-based software platform ——Android Wear created has pointed out the right direction for the smart watch industry.

Google Android Wear interface

Successful products often benefit from a good developer platform, allowing them to develop freely and giving them rights determines the success or failure of the entire product. How exactly does Google establish a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship with developers? How can Glass developers create an application that can define the future? In the limited screen space of wearable devices, how can Google designers make the interaction more refined? With limited resources such as device size and user attention, how should designers think deeply about their creativity in order to adjust the design earlier and better? In the future, how will Google use new wearable technologies and design methods to influence the future experience of wearable devices?

Alex Faaborg and Liang Yuling will hold a workshop titled "The Google Team Tells You, Wearable Device Design and Development" at the 2014 International Experience Design Conference, with you in detail Interpretation. In the workshop, they will share with you Google's new ideas in the wearable field, and discuss and explore new applications on wearable devices. At the scene, they will work with participants to design APPs developed on smart phones, and extend to prototype designs on smart watches and other wearable devices. Through the technical and design guidance and suggestions given by the presenter, developers can master more development skills suitable for applications on wearable devices and design future experiences.

Alex will bring the "Android Wear-Everything you need to Know!" conference speech to decrypt everything about Android for you.

Like Android, the new Android Wear is an open platform that allows third-party manufacturers to join in to produce a variety of Android Wear compatible devices——main It's all kinds of smart watches. The most exciting function of the new platform is similar to Moto x a few days ago: the watch is always waiting for your instructions, as long as you say "OK Google", you can give instructions to the watch, such as asking the weather or playing a song. .

Multiple functions of Google Android Wear

Its appearance frees manufacturers from spending energy and funds to build platforms; secondly, just like Android phones, manufacturers can launch various hardware products with different positioning. It not only meets the needs of users, but also realizes their own interests. The most important thing is that Google has gathered its rich experience in the Internet, search, and contextual associations to bring an intelligent user experience to Android Wear, which is currently unachievable by other smart watches.

So far, only LG G Watch, Samsung Gear Live and MOTO 360 Android Wear hardware are available, and the first two models have already been sold. Their user experience is actually similar, because they are smart watches, and the screens are also very small. Obviously, Android Wear's main push for voice operation has eased the situation of small UI and difficult to touch to a certain extent, which is worthy of recognition.

Smartwatch based on Android Wear