Thursday, May 28, 2015

New apps coming to Android Wear include Uber and Foursquare

Google announced today that 4,000 apps have been developed for Android Wear in the year since its debut. With the rest of that growing library, the platform now features new, more powerful apps — Uber, Foursquare, and Citymapper, among others.

Uber for Android Wear is probably the most impressive of those demonstrated onstage today. The app allows to user to simply say "OK, Google, call me a car" and an Uber driver will be summoned to their location. Apps like Foursquare will provide glanceable updates about restaurants nearby, and Shazam will detect songs using the smartwatch's internal microphone.

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