Well, since this is about Android wear, are there any plans to officially support some devices, such as the pebble and Moto360?
On Thursday, December 31, 2015, Michael Zanetti < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On 27.12.2015 10:41, Simon Fels wrote: > > On 26.12.2015 22:28, Gareth France wrote: > >> On 26/12/15 00:17, Michael Zanetti wrote: > >>>> And will it work with my generic > >>>> >watch? > >>> No. > >>> > >>>> >If not is there anything that can be done to encourage two way > >>>> >communication between the watch and phone? > >>> I would require writing something like Rockwork, suited for your watch > >>> model, probably something AndroidWear compatible. > >> Why oh why don't people design these things to some sort of standard? So > >> if this is the case is this the sort of device we are likely to see near > >> universal support emerging for in the future? I mean I'm used to just > >> being able to buy any device and have it work automatically without any > >> effort (touchscreen, printer, webcam, soundcard etc). Or is there some > >> major challenge to auto identifying smart watches and dealing with them? > > > > There is a standard which Android Wear uses: Bluetooth Smart (aka > > Bluetooth Low Energy). On top of that there are certain profiles > > specified (see [1]) which all use GATT as base and give you all the > > features you want. Its pebble who did something different here as it > > sounds to me (never really looked into this). > > I would be really surprised if AndroidWear would only use Profiles > specced by the Bluetooth SIG. AFAICS there is not too much except the > notification and heart rate stuff in the standard. All the goodies like > watchapp/watchface management and even things like step counter, sleep > monitors etc are not part of the Bluetooth spec and so it has to be > something custom or at least something not standardized yet. > > I agree Pebble could've at least used AVRCP for music playback control. > But apart from that, not too much useful stuff in the GATT spec (yet). > > > > > Support for BLE will land with ota9 and from what I've heard we will > > also make it available through our Qt APIs we expose in the SDK. > > > > regards, > > Simon > > > > [1]: > > > https://developer.bluetooth.org/gatt/Pages/GATT-Specification-Documents.aspx > > > > > >
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