What's new in Wear OS by Google

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Wear OS renames from Android Wear and reports concrete growth: 26 new watches in 2017, 148% year‑over‑year iOS user growth, and one in three new activations from iPhone. Platform changes include adaptive text sizing, darker backgrounds, notification‑preview and recent‑app complications; fitness features like touch lock, media controls in Google Fit, and continuous heart‑rate monitoring; Assistant updates with always‑on mic, TTS and suggestion chips plus Actions on Google/Dialogflow support; Android P battery restrictions, aggressive app‑standby and an experimental Kotlin DSL for watch faces.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 13:59Power
3. 14:27Faster updates
4. 25:37App Standby Buckets
5. 27:38Dark UI System theme

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