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<div class="landing-h1 hero">Android Wear</div>
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<p>Small, powerful devices, worn on the body.
Useful information when you need it most.
Intelligent answers to spoken questions.
Tools to help reach fitness goals.
Your key to a multiscreen world.</p>
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Get ready for the next version of Android Wear!
Support stand-alone Wear devices and apps.
Create enhanced user interaction and glanceable experiences.
Test your apps on Wear devices.
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<div class="landing-h1">Extending Android to Wearables</div>
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Android Wear extends the Android platform to a new generation of devices, <br>
with a user experience that's designed specifically for wearables.
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Get glanceable, actionable information at just the right time with notifications
that are synced from your handheld device.
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Say “Ok Google” to send messages, ask questions, and get stuff done.
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Design apps that can access a wide range of sensors and other hardware
directly on the wearable.
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Before you start building, check out the
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to understand how to create great experiences for this exciting, new form factor.</p>
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<div class="landing-h1">Developing for Android Wear</div>
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The Android Wear APIs are delivered in the Android Support Library and Google Play
services. When using these libraries, handheld devices running Android 4.3
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<p>Synced Notifications</p>
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Notifications on handhelds can automatically sync to wearables, so design them
with both devices in mind.
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<a href="{@docRoot}training/wearables/notifications/index.html">Build notifications</a>
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Register your app to handle voice actions, like "Ok Google, take a note,"
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<p>Build Wearable Apps</p>
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Create custom experiences with activities, services, sensors, and much
more with the Android SDK.
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<a href="{@docRoot}training/wearables/apps/index.html">Create wearable apps</a>
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Send data and actions between handhelds and wearables with
data replication APIs and RPCs.
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<div class="landing-h1">Building an Ecosystem</div>
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We’re working with partners around the world to build watches powered by Android Wear!
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<div class="landing-h1 landing-align-left">Get Started with Android Wear</div>
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Set up your development environment and start working with the APIs.
We’re excited about the experiences you'll create and can't
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Learn the basic concepts of Android Wear
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Read more about Android Wear development
on our blog. Just search for "Android Wear".
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