Reach more users
Engage your audience on the fastest growing smartwatch platform. Active Wear OS devices have grown 5x since the launch of Wear OS 3.
Drive engagement
Boost in-app engagement and the business value of your app by bringing your app to your user's wrist.
Streamline development
Leverage the latest Modern Android APIs and tools, making it easier than ever to create an app for Wear OS.
Get started with Wear OS
Design for Wear OS
The updated design guidelines for Wear OS cover the Wear OS design systems, UI components, UX patterns, and styles.
Create watch faces
Design a watch face using Watch Face Studio, or use the Watch Face Format to develop tools for watch faces.
Explore Wear OS surfaces
Learn to build for multiple surfaces for your wear OS app.
Improve your app quality
Find out how to assess the quality of your app and fulfill the upcoming requirements on Google Play Store.
New features
Wear OS 5.1
The latest version of Wear OS—complete with new authentication capabilities, media enhancements, and updates to the Watch Face Format—is here! Test your app using a physical device, such as the Google Pixel Watch 3, or on the official emulator in Android Studio.
Highlighted samples & codelabs
Compose for Wear OS
Compose for Wear OS is a modern declarative UI toolkit and is the recommended approach for building apps on Wear OS. Design your app with familiar UI components adapted for the watch.
Horologist for Wear OS
This project provides libraries that aim to supplement Wear OS developers with features that are commonly required by developers but not yet available elsewhere. Including the media toolkit, prebuilt composables, and layouts.
Latest news
TrustedTime API: Introducing a reliable approach to time keeping for your apps
Updated February 12, 2025
Build kids app experiences for Wear OS
Updated January 22, 2025
AllTrails gains over 1 million downloads after implementing its Wear OS app
Updated September 25, 2024
Tune in for our summer episode of #TheAndroidShow on August 27!
Updated August 20, 2024
Create exceptional experiences on Pixel’s new watches and foldables
Updated August 13, 2024
Prepare your app for the new Samsung Galaxy foldables and watches!
Updated July 11, 2024
Building Jetcaster on all Form Factors
Updated June 13, 2024
Top 3 Updates with Compose across Form Factors at Google I/O '24
Updated June 11, 2024
Scaling Across Screens with Jetpack Compose @ Google I/O ‘24
Updated May 15, 2024
What’s new in Wear OS - I/O '24
Updated May 15, 2024
Latest updates for watch faces on Wear OS
Updated May 15, 2024
Google I/O 2024: What’s new in Android Development Tools
Updated May 14, 2024
15 Things to know for Android developers at Google I/O
Updated May 14, 2024
Introducing a new Text-To-Speech engine on Wear OS
Updated March 5, 2024
Wear OS hybrid interface: Boosting power and performance
Updated February 26, 2024
Thank you for creating excellent apps, across devices in 2023!
Updated December 19, 2023
Now in Android #93 : Android 14 Release Edition
Updated October 18, 2023
Wear OS 4 is now stable and available on Google Pixel Watch 2!
Updated October 4, 2023
Compose for Wear OS and Tiles 1.2 libraries are now stable: check out new features!
Updated August 9, 2023
Deezer increased its monthly active users 4X after improving multi-device support
Updated July 26, 2023
Peloton increased its multi-device support and saw an uptick in user engagement
Updated June 21, 2023
Designing for Wear OS: Getting started with designing inclusive smartwatch apps
Updated May 22, 2023
Introducing the Watch Face Format for Wear OS
Updated May 10, 2023
Watch the Wear OS updates at I/O 2023
Updated May 10, 2023
Voice controlled workouts with Google Assistant
Updated April 18, 2023
Policy Updates: New Wear OS App Quality Requirements
Updated February 28, 2023
Android developers: a big thank you for a great 2022!
Updated December 16, 2022
Compose for Wear OS 1.1 is now stable: check out new features!
Updated December 7, 2022
Join the Wear OS community
Stack Overflow
Ask a question on Stack Overflow
Bug tracker
Report an issue and track bugs
Slack group
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