At Google’s I/O developer conference today, the company previewed the next version of its smartwatch operating system, Wear OS 4. The new release promises to bring improved battery life and accessibility features, an easier way to swap out your phone or watch without having to reset the device, and new tools for building watch faces in collaboration with Samsung.
The new Watch Face Format — a declarative XML format — will allow developers to build new Wear OS watch faces and publish them to Google Play, starting today. With this new design language, developers will be able to create both digital and analog watch faces, including those with complications and other customizable elements, Google says. (More on that here).
The new OS will also introduce battery life improvements and new and improved accessibility fea...
