New Tiles API: Share tiles with your smartwatch users

Author/Engineer Jeremy Walker

Using the tile (Tiles) function, users can quickly access information and perform operations by simply sliding on the main screen of the dial. Smartwatch users can use this to strengthen control and better control the information and operations they want to know. There is no doubt that for smartwatches running Wear OS, tiles have become one of its most practical functions.

We are happy to announce that tiles can be shared with your smartwatch users. You can create custom tiles by downloading the latest Alpha version Users can download and use your tiles to open a new experience after you upload your creation to Google Play. You can also upload a screenshot of the to the 161414ca236396 preview resource Play Store in the Google Play Management Center.

For example Calm and Sleep Cycle have begun to create custom tiles.

Using the new version of Tiles API, you can easily view the Wear application functions with a single swipe on the dial.

——Samo Kralj, senior Android software engineer at Calm

API is easy to understand and the documentation is very clear, allowing us to create our first tile with real data within a few hours. It feels like a very modern API, and very easy to use.

——Viktor Åkerskog, Technical Director of Sleep Cycle

Thank you very much for all your feedback on the Alpha version, we have incorporated many requests and improvements into the latest API. You can submit additional feedback , help us prioritize improvements in subsequent versions of the API.

If you have not had the opportunity to try the API, you can refer to the related guide , or explore the Tiles Codelab view the demo.

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