Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director of Android Developer Relations
Earlier today at Mobile World Congress (MWC), an annual conference celebrating the latest in mobile, Android and our partners unveiled a range of new goodies, including new wearables, foldables and some new features for Android users. Read on below to see how you as developers can take advantage of these new features and devices being released. And in just over a week, on Thursday, March 7 at 10am PT, we'll kick off a new episode of #TheAndroidShow, our quarterly live show on YouTube and beyond developer.android.comwhere we delve deeper into these topics.
Meet OnePlus' new watch and how we're boosting its power with the Wear OS hybrid interface
Wearables are on display at MWC this week, and one of our favorites is OnePlus Watch 2, equipped with the latest version of Wear OS (Wear operating system 4). As part of our ongoing work to improve the Wear OS from Google user experience, we made fundamental changes to the platform and significantly expanded the capabilities of the Wear OS hybrid interface, improving two key areas: power and performance. As a developer, you can use existing Wear OS APIs to make optimizations with no extra effort – no code changes required! You can read more about the updates here.
A few new features for Android users
Google has released 9 new features that Android users can take advantage of in Google apps Read more about these features here. For developers, we want to highlight some ways you can take advantage of this news in the experiences you build into your apps:
- More places where users can view their Health Connect data, now in the Fitbit app: With permission from your users, Connecting health is a central way to connect and sync their favorite health and fitness apps, view all their data in one place, and stay in control of their privacy. By setting up Health Connect in the Fitbit mobile app for Android, users can see their health and fitness data from all their apps in one place. You can join developers like Peloton, ŌURA and Lifesum who use Health Connect to provide their users with deeper health and fitness insights, start now!
A new episode of #TheAndroidShow, live March 7 at 10am PT. Send us your #AskAndroid questions now!
You can join us on March 7 at 10am PT for a new episode of #TheAndroidShow. In this quarterly show, we unpack the latest foldable Android devices and big screens for you to build on, plus a behind-the-scenes look at Gemini Nano and AICore.
We're having a live #AskAndroid Q&A with the team about building Android; You can ask us questions about building great apps across devices, Android 15, Compose, Gemini and more, using #AskAndroid on X or on YouTube. Our experts are ready to answer your questions live!
#TheAndroidShow: March 7 at 10am PTbroadcast live on YouTube and d.android.com/events/show!