What’s new in Android Wear 2.0

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Android Wear 2.0 adds concrete developer features: watches get a Play Store and can run independent apps (manifest flag plus minSdk 25), apps can perform direct network requests, notifications gain inline actions, UI moves to a dark theme and adds layout helpers for round screens (boxing inset, resource qualifiers), long lists use the wearable RecyclerView with curved animations and fast scroll, and watch faces use a new complications API with providers, types, update lifetimes and pending intents.

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1. 0:00Android Wear 2.0 intro
2. 1:11User interactions evolution
3. 3:04Notifications design changes
4. 5:13Standalone apps & Play Store
5. 7:17Network for standalone apps
6. 8:44Dark theme & UI
7. 9:27Round vs square screens
8. 11:10Wearable RecyclerView
9. 14:02Navigation & drawers
10. 15:06Physical buttons
11. 16:51Scrolling wheel input
12. 17:58Watch faces & complications
13. 20:31Complication API
14. 23:24Data provider for complications
15. 27:15Watch face design
16. 31:33Configuring complications
17. 33:19Closing & Q&A

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