G+_Marlon Thompson Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 My Android wear observations: There are actually a ton of Android Wear apps Because android wear taps into rich notifications, controls that you could access in your notification shade will show up on your watch without the developer having to do anything. For example with pocketcasts I get the show artwork, I can pause and play, skip forward or backwards all from the watch. Since I have a long commute and listen to a lot of audio podcasts I love that I don't have to pull my phone out to replay a Jeff Jarvis rant :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tom Gehrke Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 This is important for people to realize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jan Scott Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 With the playstore for wearables looking a bit thin this does seem essential to understand. But I do have a question: if you use a non standard text message app (ie not hangouts) does it still sent text notifications? Or if you use something other than the official twitter feed? Do you get the tweets? I can see that having the twitter app feeding to the phone but using talon on my phone would be okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joshua Masterson Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 I'm so looking forward to controlling pocketcast while not having to pull my phone out. Moto 360 can't come soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted July 11, 2014 Author Share Posted July 11, 2014 Jan Scott on the non standard text message I have good news bad news. I use Hello SMS as my sms client and when I get a text it shows up on the watch, if I select reply however it opens up the app on the phone and I have to reply there. But here is the flip side I can say "send a text message to ..." it will let me send it by voice straight from the watch and through Hello SMS. Twitter is another story though, it only seems to send notifications through the official Twitter app, the watch totally ignores the Carbon Twitter app on my phone. You also cannot respond or post to tweets by voice as yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted July 11, 2014 Author Share Posted July 11, 2014 Jan Scott UPDATE: just after I posted Carbon sent me the twitter updates,it has to wait to sync. With the twitter app you get it immediately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted July 11, 2014 Author Share Posted July 11, 2014 John Erskine its the video version but it does not stream to your phone. Not sure if it would be possible as you would be streaming over bluetooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted July 11, 2014 Author Share Posted July 11, 2014 btw Jan Scott text messages in non hangout apps are truncated, so you can read quick messages easy enough, but longer messages you have to open the phone. If anyone is a developer and you want a quick app idea look at what Pebble Notifier does and create one for Android wear. Create an app that acts like a go between for non standard android wear apps so that you can view entire messages and respond by voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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