Smartwatches running Google’s Wear OS operating system can now get a major boost in terms of their watch face functions.
The selection of Wear OS watch faces is rather limited, in terms of variation more than actual selection, as few are very different from a typical watch face. That could change dramatically now though, as Google has made a tweak to how watch faces work which could fundamentally change them.
In a post on the Android developer site, Google has explained that Wear OS watch faces can now make the most of ‘hardware acceleration’ – that is, they can utilize the processing power of smartwatches with good chipsets or lots of RAM.
The benefit of this will be that frame rates will be boosted, so animations and transitions (including watch hands moving, or different menus shifting about) will look a lot smoother, and more pleasing to the eye.
