A new look for the Google Play Store debuted earlier this week, and ever since, users have been noticing changes Google’s been delivering to further refine its app store experience. Earlier today we showed you how Google was providing more useful information about app ratings, implementing a clear numerical system to make fractional ratings more easily conveyable. Now another change is hitting devices, spelling out a glance whether or not an app will benefit from the use of an Android Wear smartwatch.
Rather than start a secondary app store just for wearables, Google Play delivers Wear support packaged within standard phone or tablet apps – so instead of tracking down Facebook Messenger specifically for your smartwatch, you install Messenger on your phone, and then that app makes its Android Wear content available on your wearable. But how do you know which apps do and don’t contain such Android Wear extras? There’s a category for Wear-compatible apps, but what if you’re just browsing and want to know if an app supports your watch?
Google has begun adding a watch icon to Play Store listings to mark apps which support Android Wear devices. We haven’t spotted it on our own hardware just yet, so Google could slowly be switching things on with its Play Store servers, but it appears that it should be coming to everyone soon.
Will this prominent indication of Android Wear enhancements drive more developers to start experimenting with smartwatch support in their own apps? Time will tell, but we sure hope so.
Source: Android Police
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