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Build apps for the wrist with Wear OS

Write apps that help users live more present, healthy, and productive lives with Wear OS. With major improvements to the core experience and big changes to the platform, there’s a lot to be excited about.

Explore the Wear OS gallery Develop your app

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.

Get your apps ready

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.

Try the codelab

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.

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Reach more users

Drive engagement

Streamline development

TrustedTime API: Introducing a reliable approach to time keeping for your apps

Build kids app experiences for Wear OS

AllTrails gains over 1 million downloads after implementing its Wear OS app

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Create exceptional experiences on Pixel’s new watches and foldables

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Building Jetcaster on all Form Factors

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Scaling Across Screens with Jetpack Compose @ Google I/O ‘24

What’s new in Wear OS - I/O '24

Latest updates for watch faces on Wear OS

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Tools and libraries to help your Wear OS app satisfy Google Play app quality requirements

Introducing the Fused Orientation Provider API: Consistent device orientation for all

Introducing a new Text-To-Speech engine on Wear OS

Wear OS hybrid interface: Boosting power and performance

Thank you for creating excellent apps, across devices in 2023!

Now in Android #93 : Android 14 Release Edition

Wear OS 4 is now stable and available on Google Pixel Watch 2!

Compose for Wear OS and Tiles 1.2 libraries are now stable: check out new features!

Deezer increased its monthly active users 4X after improving multi-device support

Peloton increased its multi-device support and saw an uptick in user engagement

Designing for Wear OS: Getting started with designing inclusive smartwatch apps

Introducing the Watch Face Format for Wear OS

Watch the Wear OS updates at I/O 2023

Voice controlled workouts with Google Assistant

Policy Updates: New Wear OS App Quality Requirements

Android developers: a big thank you for a great 2022!

Compose for Wear OS 1.1 is now stable: check out new features!