This whitepaper looks at the role of Android Wear in today’s wearable market. It provides insights into vertical specific use cases for different enterprise possibilities and also gives a glimpse of future market trends.

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Android wear
Virtual Digital Assistant
on your wrist

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INTRODUCTION
Role of ‘Android Wear’ in todays wearable market
Key Wearable Players
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Consumer & Enterprise World
Use Cases
ANDROID WEAR APP DEVELOPMENT
Wearable SDK
Key Features / APIs
WEARABLE MARKET TRENDS
BEYOND WEARABLES
REFERENCES
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INTRODUCTION
This whitepaper looks at Android Wear, a customized Android Version for wearable devices
like smart watches.
Google entered wearable device market in 2013 with its Glass product, which is not open
to other OEMs. However, Android Wear another wearable product by Google will be open
to all OEMs. For now, almost all major android players have participated in this program.
Role of ‘Android Wear’ in todays wearable market
Success of wearable devices depends on number of sensors it supports and number of applications available on it. We
believe Android Wear devices will definitely lead the market as they support many in-built health related sensors
compared to other competitors. Being a part of the Android platform family, there are high chances of Google Play’s
success being repeated and possibilities of getting more applications developed for wearable devices in the coming
times.
Android Wear is open in terms of developing compatible devices or apps. Google has already released the final SDK in
the recent Google I/O event and is open for developers to start building applications for Wearable devices.
Android Wear devices will have a different form factor than smart phones. Hence, it is imperative for Android developers
to consider this form factor while planning/developing their core apps. Android developers cannot ignore these devices,
as in most cases it will be an extension of user’s existing mobile device or application. Users can expect more services on
Android wear devices in coming days.
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Android Wear devices
will definitely lead the
market as they support
many in-built health
related sensors
compared to other
competitors.

4. Key Wearable Players
The recent Google I/O saw the launch on Samsung Gear Live and LG Watch. Samsung’s entry came as a surprise element
as it already had the Tizen based watch i.e. Gear 2. Moto 360 is expected to be released later this year.
Below are more details of these devices
Design /
Shape
LG G
Watch
Samsung
Gear Live
Battery Screen Weight Sensors Additional
9 Axis
(Accelerometer
Compass
Gyroscope)
Features
Changeable
Straps
Accelerometer
Digital Compass
Gyroscope
Heart Rate
Monitor
Common Specs: Processor 1.2 GHz, 4GB internal memory, 512 MB RAM, Bluetooth 4.0 LE
Samsung Gear Live
Square 400 mAh 1.65” IPS
LCD 63 g
Square 300 mAh 1.63” Super
AMOLED 59 g
LG G Watch
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5. ANDROID WEAR
Android Wear devices are powerful in terms of features and are also small enough to replace regular wristwatches. It
provides contextual information based on users current environment and captures users behavior. It also provides
intuitive answers to questions asked by the users.
Today users are moving towards a multi screen world where users have access to different form factors like that of
notebooks, tablets and smart phones. Wearable devices will be the new addition to this multi screen world.
Android Wear relies heavily on Google Now – Google’s answer to Apple’s Siri. Google Now is a Virtual Digital Assistant and
it is available on all Android mobile devices.
Consumer and Enterprise World
Consumer Arena
Consumers can view notifications from Android devices on their Wearable devices
Consumers can take actions against each notification like replying to message etc.
Enterprise Arena
Salesforce Wear – This is a developer platform offered by salesforce.com for different wearable devices like Google
glass, Samsung’s Gear, Pebble Smart watch, Android Wear etc. It includes references apps, demos,
open source code and tools for development.
Enterprises with large mobile workforce can provide reminders and other useful information to employees
anywhere, anytime.
Use Cases
Android Wear devices can have multiple use cases in different domains. Below are some of the most important and useful
examples
Phone Functions - You can access frequently used features on smart watches
Read and Reply to SMS
Read Notifications
Set Alarm/Reminder
Home Automation
Open the garage door using your voice command
Start any appliances just giving voice command
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6. Digital Identity - Smart watch on your wrist can access all your digital identities (QR/Bar codes) like
Boarding Pass
Membership Cards
Reservation Code
Discount Coupon
Fitness Tracking - In-built sensors of Android Wear will provide different fitness tracking
parameters like
Calories Burned
Distance Walked
Blood Pressure
Heart Rate
Step Count etc.,
ANDROID WEAR APP DEVELOPMENT
Developing application for Android Wear requires additional SDKs as its form factor differs from Android Smart phones
and voice is the primary input by the end user.
Preview of wearable SDKs were made available to the developers for a short period before releasing full SDK at Google’s
annual event I/O 2014.
Wearable SDK - Android Wear SDK comes with set of tools and APIs for Wear application
development. It includes
Android Wear Emulator – Helps to run applications and it services
Users can view Android device notifications as cards on the connected Wear devices as well connected Wear Emulator
Developer can use new notification APIs to extend the features of their existing application using voice replies or
notification pages
Allows developing custom application and User Interfaces
Key Features/APIs
User Interface – It is imperative for the developers to design great User Interfaces for their apps
considering small form factor of wearable devices. Below are some UI related features and
guidelines which developers need to consider for their Wearable applications.
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7. Android Wear supports two types UI formats
Suggest (Context Stream) – This is a vertical list of Google Now cards that can show information based on current
time and current user location. Only one card can be displayed at a time. However user can swipe vertically to view
other cards
Demand (Cue Card) – This is a list of actions, which are triggered by user’s voice command. Developer can match
these commands with their applications, when multiple applications are mapped to the same action.
Developers need to follow below design guidelines
UI/apps need to be contextually aware and smart enough to show the right information at the right time
Information shown by app needs to be glanceable with minimum interaction
Stream vs. Cue Card
Notifications - appear as cards and they are a core part of the Android Wear experience.
Developers need to be aware of Android Design Guidelines for notifications, as most of them are
applicable for Wear applications as well.
Notification can be designed in a different way to include some of the below items based on
notification type, priority etc.
Images
Card can have background images to provide contextual glanceability
Landscape images are more suitable as these images move horizontally with swipe
Image
Page
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8. Pages – When your core message is longer than what can fit within a single primary card, then you can add pages/cards
which are placed to the right of the primary card. It is always recommended not to have more than 3 pages when your
notification contains actions.
Actions – Applications need to add actions to the content when users need to act
on information shown on screen. Actions are shown on the right side of content and
most used actions need to be added first for easy access. Actions consist of an icon
and a text caption.
Application Icon – By default the application launcher icon is placed on the cards,
however developers have option to hide it on need basis.
Action
Application Icon Stacked Notifications
Stacked notifications – You can consider this option if your application can produce multiple notifications concurrently.
Voice Replies – Messaging applications generally make use of hands-free dictation to create short messages/reply. You
can provide up to five suggested replies for users to choose from.
Voice Reply
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9. WEARABLE MARKET TRENDS
Wearable market already has seen many smart watches in the past. These devices will give tough competition to upcoming
Android Wear Devices. Let us look into these devices in terms of features and specifications.
Samsung Gear 2
Sony SmartWatch 2 Pebble SmartWatch
OS Tizen Micrium uC/OS-II Pebble OS
Processor 800 MHz ARM Cortex-M3,
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up to 80MHz
Display 320x320 Super
AMOLED 1.63 inch
220x176 Transflective
LCD 1.6 inch
144×168 e-paper display
1.26 inch
Memory 512MB Ram,
4GB storage
Camera 2MP (720p video
playback & recording) Not available
Connectivity Bluetooth 4.0 + LE NFC, Bluetooth 3.0 Bluetooth 4.0
Additional
Features
1. Answer phone calls
2. IP67 certified dust &
water resistant
1. IP57 certified water,
dust & scratch resistant
2. Twitter feeds, SMS,
notifications
1. Ambient light sensor
Supported
Devices
Galaxy devices
(Note 2/3, S3, S4, S5)
Android Devices
(4.0 and above) Android and iOS devices
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10. BEYOND WEARABLES
Android is expanding its wing to different form factors and smart watches are going to be the next big thing in the
wearable space.
We expect there will be many additional features to Android Wear devices than the ones shown at the launch event.
The Android Wear launch event was just a strategic starting point for Google to enter into the wearable and IoT
(Internet of Things) market.
Google has already announced its much anticipated health platform, Google Fit in Google I/O 2014. It will collect health
data and make it accessible via cloud. The main goal of Google Fit is to standardize health and fitness data which is
used on Android platforms (including Google Glass and Android Wear).
Google Fit will provide a collection of APIs for developers to aggregate health and fitness data. Developers can easily
plug these APIs to add health and fitness features in their Android applications.
In future, BYOD will be extended to wearable devices, which will bring new challenges as well as opportunities. There
will be a need for enterprises to manage Wearable devices also and it will in turn create more opportunities for MDM
vendors.
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11. Basavraj is a member of the Technology Competency Group (TCG) at Endeavour
Software Technologies. As a Technical Architect, he is responsible for creating and
selecting the optimum architecture for various mobility solutions developed at
Endeavour. With over a decade of experience, he has hands on experience on various
mobile platforms ranging from black and white Palm PDAs to current devices. His
current specialization includes Android, Windows and Hybrid/Cross Mobile Application
Development (PhoneGap, Xamarin etc.).
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Basavraj M B
Technical Architect
Technology Competency Group (TCG)
REFERENCES
1. Android Wear official site
http://developer.android.com/wear/index.html
2. Android Wear Devices
Moto 360 - https://moto360.motorola.com/
LG G Watch- http://www.lg.com/global/gwatch/main.html#movie
4. Samsung Gear Live
http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/gear/gearlive_features.html
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