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Posted by Nick Butcher – Product Supervisor

At Google I/O 2025, we introduced a number of options, efficiency, stability, libraries, and instruments updates for Jetpack Compose, our really useful Android UI toolkit. With Compose you may construct glorious apps that work throughout units. Compose has matured loads because it was first introduced (at Google I/O 2019!) and we’re now seeing 60% of the highest 1,000 apps within the Play Retailer equivalent to MAX and Google Drive use and like it.

New Options

Since I/O final 12 months, Compose Invoice of Supplies (BOM) model 2025.05.01 provides new options equivalent to:

• Autofill assist that lets customers routinely insert beforehand entered private info into textual content fields.
• Auto-sizing textual content to easily adapt textual content dimension to a dad or mum container dimension.
• Visibility monitoring for if you want high-performance info on a composable’s place in its root container, display, or window.
• Animate bounds modifier for lovely computerized animations of a Composable’s place and dimension inside a LookaheadScope.
• Accessibility checks in assessments that allow you to construct a extra accessible app UI via automated a11y testing.

LookaheadScope {
    Field(
        Modifier
            .animateBounds(this@LookaheadScope)
            .width(if(inRow) 100.dp else 150.dp)
            .background(..)
            .border(..)
    )
}

For extra particulars on these options, learn What’s new within the Jetpack Compose April ’25 launch and take a look at these talks from Google I/O:

In case you’re seeking to check out new Compose performance, the alpha BOM gives new options that we’re engaged on together with:

• Pausable Composition (see beneath)
• Updates to LazyLayout prefetch
• Context Menus
• New modifiers: onFirstVisible, onVisbilityChanged, contentType
• New Lint checks for steadily altering values and components that needs to be remembered in composition

Please check out the alpha options and present suggestions to assist form the way forward for Compose.

Materials Expressive

At Google I/O, we unveiled Materials Expressive, Materials Design’s newest evolution that helps you make your merchandise much more partaking and simpler to make use of. It is a complete addition of recent parts, types, movement and customization choices that enable you to construct lovely wealthy UIs. The Material3 library within the newest alpha BOM accommodates most of the new expressive parts so that you can check out.

Study extra to begin constructing with Materials Expressive.

Adaptive layouts library

Creating adaptive apps throughout kind elements together with telephones, foldables, tablets, desktop, automobiles and Android XR is now simpler with the most recent enhancements to the Compose adaptive layouts library. The secure 1.1 launch provides assist for predictive again gestures for smoother transitions and pane enlargement for extra versatile two pane layouts on bigger screens. Moreover, the 1.2 (alpha) launch provides extra flexibility for the way panes are displayed, including methods for reflowing and levitating.

Study extra about constructing adaptive android apps with Compose.

Efficiency

With every launch of Jetpack Compose, we proceed to prioritize efficiency enhancements. The most recent secure launch consists of vital rewrites and enhancements to a number of sub-systems together with semantics, focus and textual content optimizations. Better of all these can be found to you just by upgrading your Compose dependency; no code modifications required.

We proceed to work on additional efficiency enhancements, notable modifications within the newest alpha BOM embrace:

• Pausable Composition permits compositions to be paused, and their work break up up over a number of frames.
• Background textual content prefetch allows textual content format caches to be pre-warmed on a background thread, enabling quicker textual content format.
• LazyLayout prefetch enhancements enabling lazy layouts to be smarter about how a lot content material to prefetch, profiting from pausable composition.

Collectively these enhancements eradicate practically all jank in an inside benchmark.

Stability

We have heard from you that upgrading your Compose dependency may be difficult, encountering bugs or behaviour modifications that forestall you from staying on the most recent model. We have invested considerably in enhancing the steadiness of Compose, working carefully with the numerous Google app groups constructing with Compose to detect and forestall points earlier than they even make it to a launch.

Google apps develop towards and launch with snapshot builds of Compose; as such, Compose is examined towards the lots of of hundreds of Google app assessments and any Compose points are instantly actioned by our crew. Now we have just lately invested in rising the cadence of updating these snapshots and now replace them every day from Compose tip-of-tree, which implies we’re receiving suggestions quicker, and are in a position to resolve points lengthy earlier than they attain a public launch of the library.

Jetpack Compose additionally depends on @Experimental annotations to mark APIs which are topic to vary. We heard your suggestions that some APIs have remained experimental for a very long time, decreasing your confidence within the stability of Compose. Now we have invested in stabilizing experimental APIs to offer you a extra stable API floor, and diminished the variety of experimental APIs by 32% within the final 12 months.

Now we have additionally heard that it may be exhausting to debug Compose crashes when your personal code doesn’t seem within the stack hint. Within the newest alpha BOM, we’ve got added a brand new opt-in function to offer extra diagnostic info. Observe that this doesn’t presently work with minified builds and comes at a efficiency value, so we suggest solely utilizing this function in debug builds.

class App : Utility() {
   override enjoyable onCreate() {
        // Allow just for debug taste to keep away from perf affect in launch
        Composer.setDiagnosticStackTraceEnabled(BuildConfig.DEBUG)
   }
}

Libraries

We all know that to construct nice apps, you want Compose integration within the libraries that work together together with your app’s UI.

A core library that powers any Compose app is Navigation. You informed us that you simply typically encountered limitations when managing state hoisting and instantly manipulating the again stack with the present Compose Navigation answer. We went again to the drawing-board and utterly reimagined how a navigation library ought to combine with the Compose psychological mannequin. We’re excited to introduce Navigation 3, a brand new artifact designed to empower you with better management and simplify complicated navigation flows.

We’re additionally investing in Compose assist for CameraX and Media3, making it simpler to combine digital camera seize and video playback into your UI with Compose idiomatic parts.

@Composable
non-public enjoyable VideoPlayer(
    participant: Participant?, // from media3
    modifier: Modifier = Modifier
) {
    Field(modifier) {
        PlayerSurface(participant) // from media3-ui-compose
        participant?.let {
            // customized play-pause button UI
            val playPauseButtonState = rememberPlayPauseButtonState(it) // from media3-ui-compose
            MyPlayPauseButton(playPauseButtonState, Modifier.align(BottomEnd).padding(16.dp))
        }
    }
}

To be taught extra, see the media3 Compose documentation and the CameraX samples.

Instruments

We proceed to enhance the Android Studio instruments for creating Compose UIs. The newest Narwhal canary consists of:

• Resizable Previews immediately present you ways your Compose UI adapts to totally different window sizes
• Preview navigation enhancements utilizing clickable names and parts
• Studio Labs 🧪: Compose preview technology with Gemini rapidly generate a preview
• Studio Labs 🧪: Rework UI with Gemini change your UI with pure language, instantly from preview.
• Studio Labs 🧪: Picture attachment in Gemini generate Compose code from photographs.

For extra info learn What’s new in Android growth instruments.

New Compose Lint checks

The Compose alpha BOM introduces two new annotations and related lint checks that will help you to put in writing appropriate and performant Compose code. The @FrequentlyChangingValue annotation and FrequentlyChangedStateReadInComposition lint examine warns in conditions the place operate calls or property reads in composition would possibly trigger frequent recompositions. For instance, frequent recompositions would possibly occur when studying scroll place values or animating values. The @RememberInComposition annotation and RememberInCompositionDetector lint examine warns in conditions the place constructors, features, and property getters are known as instantly inside composition (e.g. the TextFieldState constructor) with out being remembered.

Completely satisfied Composing

We proceed to put money into offering the options, efficiency, stability, libraries and instruments that it’s worthwhile to construct glorious apps. We worth your enter so please share suggestions on our newest updates or what you’d prefer to see subsequent.

Discover this announcement and all Google I/O 2025 updates on io.google beginning Could 22.

Posted by Garan Jenkin – Developer Relations Engineer

Put on OS has a thriving watch face ecosystem that includes quite a lot of designs that additionally goals to attenuate battery impression. Builders have embraced the simplicity of making watch faces utilizing Watch Face Format – within the final 12 months, the variety of revealed watch faces utilizing Watch Face Format has grown by over 180%^*.

At present, we’re persevering with our funding and asserting model 4 of the Watch Face Format, accessible as a part of Put on OS 6. These updates enable builders to precise even better ranges of creativity by means of the brand new options we’ve added. And we’re supporting marketplaces, which supplies flexibility and management to builders and extra alternative for customers.

On this weblog publish we’ll cowl key new options, try the documentation for extra particulars of adjustments launched in latest variations.

Supporting marketplaces with Watch Face Push

We’re additionally asserting a very new API, the Watch Face Push API, geared toward builders who need to create their very own watch face marketplaces.

Watch Face Push, accessible on gadgets working Put on OS 6 and above, works completely with watch faces that use the Watch Face Format watch faces.

We’ve partnered with well-known watch face builders – together with Facer, TIMEFLIK, WatchMaker, Pujie, and Recreative – in designing this new API. We’re excited that every one of those builders will likely be bringing their distinctive watch face experiences to Put on OS 6 utilizing Watch Face Push.

Watch faces managed and deployed utilizing Watch Face Push are all written utilizing Watch Face Format. Builders publish these watch faces in the identical means as publishing by means of Google Play, although there are some further checks the developer should make that are described within the Watch Face Push steerage.

The Watch Face Push API covers solely the watch a part of this typical market system diagram – because the app developer, you could have management and duty for the cellphone app and cloud parts, in addition to for constructing the Put on OS app utilizing Watch Face Push. You’re additionally in charge of the phone-watch communications, for which we advocate utilizing the Knowledge Layer APIs.

Including Watch Face Push to your undertaking

To start out utilizing Watch Face Push on Put on OS 6, embrace the next dependency in your Put on OS app:

// Guarantee newest model is utilized by checking the repository
implementation("androidx.put on.watchface:watchface-push:1.3.0-alpha07")

Declare the required permission in your AndroidManifest.xml:

"com.google.put on.permission.PUSH_WATCH_FACES" />

Receive a Watch Face Push shopper:

val supervisor = WatchFacePushManagerFactory.createWatchFacePushManager(context)

You’re now prepared to begin utilizing the Watch Face Push API, for instance to listing the watch faces you could have already put in, or add a brand new watch face:

// Listing current watch faces, put in by this app
val listResponse = supervisor.listWatchFaces()

// Add a watch face
supervisor.addWatchFace(watchFaceFileDescriptor, validationToken)

Understanding Watch Face Push

Whereas the fundamentals of the Watch Face Push API are straightforward to grasp and entry by means of the WatchFacePushManager interface, it’s vital to think about a number of different elements when working with the API in apply to construct an efficient market app, together with:

• Setting energetic watch faces – By a further permission, the app can set the energetic watch face. Study tips on how to combine this characteristic, in addition to tips on how to deal with the completely different permission eventualities.

To be taught extra about utilizing Watch Face Push, see the steerage and reference documentation.

Updates to Watch Face Format

Images

Out there from Watch Face Format v4

The brand new Images ingredient permits the watch face to include user-selectable images. The ingredient helps each particular person images and a gallery of images. For a gallery of images, builders can select whether or not the images advance robotically or when the person faucets the watch face.

The person is ready to choose the images of their alternative by means of the companion app, making this a good way to incorporate true personalization in your watch face. To make use of this characteristic, first add the required configuration:

  "myPhoto" configType="SINGLE"/>

Then use the Images ingredient inside any PartImage, in the identical means as you’ll for an Picture ingredient:

  "[CONFIGURATION.myPhoto]"
          defaultImageResource="placeholder_photo"/>

For particulars on tips on how to help a number of images, and tips on how to configure the completely different change behaviors, check with the Images part of the steerage and reference, in addition to the GitHub samples.

Transitions

Out there from Watch Face Format v4

Watch Face Format now helps transitions when exiting and getting into ambient mode.

That is achieved by means of the present Variant tag. For instance, the hours and minutes within the above watch face are animated as follows:

  "AMBIENT" goal="x" worth="100" interpolation="OVERSHOOT" />

   

By default, the animation takes the complete extent of allowed time for the transition. The brand new interpolation attribute controls the animation impact – on this case using OVERSHOOT provides a playful expertise.

The seconds are carried out in a separate DigitalClock ingredient, which exhibits using the brand new period attribute:

  "AMBIENT" goal="alpha" worth="0" period="0.5"/>
   

The period attribute takes a price between 0.0 and 1.0, with 1.0 representing the complete extent of the allowed time. On this instance, by utilizing a price of 0.5, the seconds animation is faster – taking half the allowed time, compared to the hours and minutes, which take your entire transition interval.

For extra particulars on utilizing transitions, see the steerage documentation, in addition to the reference documentation for Variant.

Coloration Transforms

Out there from Watch Face Format v4

We’ve prolonged the usefulness of the Remodel ingredient by permitting shade to be reworked on the vast majority of components the place it’s an attribute, and likewise permitting tintColor to be reworked on Group and Half^* components similar to PartDraw and PartText.

The principle exceptions to this addition are the clock components, DigitalClock and AnalogClock, and likewise ComplicationSlot, which don’t at present help Remodel.

Along with extending the listing of transformable attributes to incorporate colours, we’ve additionally added a handful of helpful capabilities for manipulating shade:

• extractColorFromColors(colours, interpolate, worth)
• extractColorFromWeightedColors(colours, weights, interpolate, worth)
• colorArgb(alpha, pink, inexperienced, blue)
• colorRgb(pink, inexperienced, blue)

To see these in motion, let’s contemplate an instance.

The Climate knowledge supply offers the present UV index by means of [WEATHER.UV_INDEX]. When representing the UV index, these values are usually additionally assigned a shade:

We need to signify this data as an Arc, not solely exhibiting the worth, but in addition utilizing the suitable shade. We will obtain this as follows:

"0" centerY="0" top="420" width="420"
  startAngle="165" endAngle="165" course="COUNTER_CLOCKWISE">
  "endAngle"
    worth="165 - 40 * (clamp(11, 0.0, 11.0) / 11.0)" />
  "20" shade="#ffffff" cap="ROUND">
    "shade"
      worth="extractColorFromWeightedColors(#97d700 #FCE300 #ff8200 #f65058 #9461c9, 3 3 2 3 1, false, clamp([WEATHER.UV_INDEX] + 0.5, 0.0, 12.0) / 12.0)" />
  

Let’s break this down:

• The primary Remodel restricts the UV index to the vary 0.0 to 11.0 and adjusts the sweep of the Arc in response to that worth.
• The second Remodel makes use of the brand new extractColorFromWeightedColors operate.
• The first argument is our listing of colours
• The second argument is a listing of weights – you possibly can see from the chart above that inexperienced covers 3 values, whereas orange solely covers 2, so we use weights to signify this.
• The third argument is whether or not or to not interpolate the colour values. On this case we need to stick strictly to the colour conference for UV index, so that is false.
• Lastly within the fourth argument we coerce the UV worth into the vary 0.0 to 1.0, which is used as an index into our weighted colours.

The consequence seems like this:

In addition to with the ability to present uncooked colours and weights to those capabilities, they can be used with values from issues, similar to HR, temperature or steps objective. For instance, to make use of the colour vary laid out in a objective complication:

"shade"
    worth="extractColorFromColors(
        [COMPLICATION.GOAL_PROGRESS_COLORS],
        [COMPLICATION.GOAL_PROGRESS_COLOR_INTERPOLATE],
        [COMPLICATION.GOAL_PROGRESS_VALUE] /    
            [COMPLICATION.GOAL_PROGRESS_TARGET_VALUE]
)"/>

Introducing the Reference ingredient

Out there from Watch Face Format v4

The brand new Reference ingredient lets you check with any transformable attribute from one a part of your watch face scene in different elements of the scene tree.

In our UV index instance above, we’d additionally just like the textual content labels to make use of the identical shade scheme.

We may carry out the identical shade remodel calculation as on our Arc, utilizing [WEATHER.UV_INDEX], however that is duplicative work which may result in inconsistencies, for instance if we modify the precise shade hues in a single place however not the opposite.

Returning to the Arc definition, let’s create a Reference to the colour:

"0" centerY="0" top="420" width="420"
  startAngle="165" endAngle="165" course="COUNTER_CLOCKWISE">
  "endAngle"
    worth="165 - 40 * (clamp(11, 0.0, 11.0) / 11.0)" />
  "20" shade="#ffffff" cap="ROUND">
    "shade" title="uv_color" defaultValue="#ffffff" />
    "shade"
      worth="extractColorFromWeightedColors(#97d700 #FCE300 #ff8200 #f65058 #9461c9, 3 3 2 3 1, false, clamp([WEATHER.UV_INDEX] + 0.5, 0.0, 12.0) / 12.0)" />
  

The colour of the Arc is calculated from the comparatively advanced extractColorFromWeightedColors operate. To keep away from repeating this elsewhere in our watch face, we’ve got added a Reference ingredient, which takes as its supply the Stroke shade.

Let’s now take a look at how we will eat this worth in a PartText elsewhere within the watch face. We gave the Reference the title uv_color, so we will merely check with this in any expression:

"0" y="225" width="450" top="225">
  "225" centerY="0" width="420" top="420"
    startAngle="120" endAngle="90"
    align="START" course="COUNTER_CLOCKWISE">
    "SYNC_TO_DEVICE" measurement="24">
      "shade" worth="[REFERENCE.uv_color]" />
      
    
  

Because of this, the colour of the Arc and the UV numeric worth are actually coordinated:

For extra particulars on tips on how to use the Reference ingredient, check with the Reference steerage.

Textual content autosizing

Out there from Watch Face Format v3

Generally the precise size of the textual content to be proven on the watch face can range, and as a developer you need to stability with the ability to show textual content that’s each legible, but in addition full.

Auto-sizing textual content might help clear up this drawback, and will be enabled by means of the isAutoSize attribute launched to the Textual content ingredient:

"CENTER" isAutoSize="true">

Having set this attribute, textual content will then robotically match the accessible house, beginning on the most measurement laid out in your Font ingredient, and with a minimal measurement of 12.

For example, step depend may vary from tens or a whole bunch by means of to many hundreds, and the brand new isAutoSize attribute allows greatest use of the accessible house for each potential worth:

For extra particulars on isAutoSize, see the Textual content reference.

Android Studio help

For builders working in Android Studio, we’ve added help to make working with Watch Face Format simpler, together with:

• Run configuration help
• Auto-complete and useful resource reference
• Lint checking

That is accessible from Android Studio Canary model 2025.1.1 Canary 10.

Study Extra

To be taught extra about constructing watch faces, please check out the next sources:

We’ve additionally lately launched a codelab for Watch Face Format and have up to date samples on GitHub to showcase new options. The challenge tracker is out there for offering suggestions.

We’re excited to see the watch face experiences that you just create and share!

Discover this announcement and all Google I/O 2025 updates on io.google beginning Might 22.

^* Google Play knowledge for interval 2025-03-24 to 2025-03-23

Posted by Chiara Chiappini – Developer Relations Engineer

This 12 months, we’re excited to introduce Put on OS 6: essentially the most power-efficient and expressive model of Put on OS but.

Put on OS 6 introduces the brand new design system we name Materials 3 Expressive. It contains a main refresh with visible and movement parts designed to present customers an expertise with extra personalization. The brand new design gives an awesome degree of expression to fulfill person demand for experiences which are fashionable, related, and distinct. Materials 3 Expressive is coming to Put on OS, Android, and all of your favourite Google apps on these units later this 12 months.

The excellent news is that you just don’t have to compromise battery for magnificence: due to Put on OS platform optimizations, watches updating from Put on OS 5 to Put on OS 6 can see as much as 10% enchancment in battery life.¹

Put on OS 6 developer preview

Immediately we’re releasing the Developer Preview of Put on OS 6, the subsequent model of Google’s smartwatch platform, primarily based on Android 16.

Put on OS 6 brings plenty of developer-facing adjustments, resembling refining the always-on show expertise. Take a look at what’s modified and attempt the brand new Put on OS 6 emulator to check your app for compatibility with the brand new platform model.

Materials 3 Expressive on Put on OS

Materials 3 Expressive for the watch is totally optimized for the spherical show. We suggest builders embrace the brand new design system of their apps and tiles. That will help you undertake Materials 3 Expressive in your app, we’ve got begun releasing new design steerage for Put on OS, together with corresponding Figma design kits.

As a developer, you will get entry the Materials 3 Expressive on Put on OS utilizing new Jetpack libraries:

These two libraries present implementations for the parts catalog that adheres to the Materials 3 Expressive design language.

Make it private with richer colour schemes utilizing themes

The Put on Compose Materials 3 and Put on Protolayout Materials 3 libraries present up to date and prolonged colour schemes, typography, and shapes to deliver each depth and selection to your designs. Moreover, your tiles now align with the system font by default (on Put on OS 6+ units), providing a extra cohesive expertise on the watch.

Each libraries introduce dynamic colour theming, which mechanically generates a colour theme in your app or tile to match the colours of the watch face of Pixel watches.

Make it extra glanceable with new tile parts

Tiles now assist a brand new framework and a set of parts that embrace the watch’s round type issue. These parts make tiles extra constant and glanceable, so customers can extra simply take swift motion on the data included in them.

We’ve launched a 3-slot tile structure to enhance visible consistency within the Tiles carousel. This structure features a title slot, a primary content material slot, and a backside slot, designed to work throughout a variety of various display sizes:

Spotlight person actions and key info with parts optimized for spherical display

The brand new Put on OS Materials 3 parts mechanically adapt to bigger display sizes, constructing on the Giant Show assist added as a part of Put on OS 5. Moreover, parts resembling Buttons and Lists assist form morphing on apps.

The next sections spotlight a few of the most fun adjustments to those parts.

Embrace the spherical display with the Edge Hugging Button

We launched a brand new EdgeButton for apps and tiles with an iconic design sample that maximizes the house inside the round type issue, hugs the sting of the display, and is available in 4 normal sizes.

Fluid navigation by means of lists utilizing new indicators

The brand new TransformingLazyColumn from the Basis library makes expressive movement simple with movement that fluidly traces the sides of the show. Builders can customise the collapsing conduct of the record when scrolling to the highest, backside and each side of the display. For instance, parts like Playing cards can scale down as they’re nearer to the highest of the display.

Materials 3 Expressive additionally features a ScrollIndicator that contains a new visible and movement design to make it simpler for customers to visualise their progress by means of a listing. The ScrollIndicator is displayed by default while you use a TransformingLazyColumn and ScreenScaffold.

Lastly, now you can use segments with the brand new ProgressIndicator, which is now out there as a full-screen element for apps and as a small-size element for each apps and tiles.

To be taught extra in regards to the new options and see the total record of updates, see the discharge notes of the most recent beta launch of the Put on Compose and Put on Protolayout libraries. Take a look at the migration steerage for apps and tiles on methods to improve your current apps, or attempt one in all our codelabs if you wish to begin creating utilizing Materials 3 Expressive design.

Watch Faces

With Put on OS 6 we’re launching updates for watch face builders:

• New choices for customizing the looks of your watch face utilizing model 4 of Watch Face Format, resembling animated state transitions from ambient to interactive and photograph watch faces.
• A brand new API for constructing watch face marketplaces.

Study extra about what’s new in Watch Face updates.

Search for extra details about the final availability of Put on OS 6 later this 12 months.

Library updates

ProtoLayout

Since our final main launch, we have improved capabilities and the developer expertise of the Tiles and ProtoLayout libraries to handle suggestions we obtained from builders. A few of these enhancements embody:

The instance beneath exhibits methods to show a structure with a textual content on a Tile utilizing new enhancements:

// returns a LayoutElement to be used in onTileRequest()
materialScope(context, requestParams.deviceConfiguration) {
    primaryLayout(
        mainSlot = {
            textual content(
                textual content = "Hiya, World!".layoutString,
                typography = BODY_LARGE,
            )
        }
    )
}

For extra info, see the migration directions.

Credential Supervisor for Put on OS

The CredentialManager API is now out there on Put on OS, beginning with Google Pixel Watch units operating Put on OS 5.1. It introduces passkeys to Put on OS with a platform-standard authentication UI that’s according to the expertise on cell.

The Credential Supervisor Jetpack library gives builders with a unified API that simplifies and centralizes their authentication implementation. Builders with an current implementation on one other type issue can use the identical CredentialManager code, and a lot of the similar supporting code to satisfy their Put on OS authentication workflow.

Credential Supervisor gives integration factors for passkeys, passwords, and Register With Google, whereas additionally permitting you to maintain your different authentication options as backups.

Customers will profit from a constant, platform-standard authentication UI; the introduction of passkeys and different passwordless authentication strategies, and the flexibility to authenticate with out their telephone close by.

Take a look at the Authentication on Put on OS steerage to be taught extra.

Richer Put on Media Controls

Gadgets that run Put on OS 5.1 or later assist enhanced media controls. Customers who hearken to media content material on telephones and watches can now profit from the next new media management options on their watch:

• They’ll fast-forward and rewind whereas listening to podcasts.
• They’ll entry the playlist and controls resembling shuffle, like, and repeat by means of a brand new menu.

Builders with an current implementation of motion buttons and playlist can profit from this characteristic with out extra effort. Take a look at how customers will get extra controls out of your media app on a Google Pixel Watch machine.

Begin constructing for Put on OS 6 now

With these updates, there’s by no means been a greater time to develop an app on Put on OS. These technical sources are an awesome place to be taught extra methods to get began:

Earlier this 12 months, we expanded our smartwatch choices with Galaxy Look ahead to Children, a singular, phone-free expertise designed particularly for kids. This launch offers households a brand new strategy to keep related, permitting youngsters to discover Put on OS independently with a devoted smartwatch. Seek the advice of our developer steerage to create a Put on OS app for teenagers.

We’re wanting ahead to seeing the experiences that you just construct on Put on OS!

Discover this announcement and all Google I/O 2025 updates on io.google beginning Could 22.

¹ Precise battery efficiency varies.