Ever since Android Wear was unveiled, it has been known that syncing notifications with a connected phone or tablet would be one of the major features of smartwatches and other devices running Google’s wearable platform. Today, we can see how those notifications would work, thanks to some images posted by a Google employee.
Unless things change as Android Wear is developed further, it looks like users will simply see the content of a notification on a fully white background (rectangular or circular depending on the type of display the wearable is using), or a custom one if the app supports it, with the app’s icon on top. Support for actionable notifications seem to be built-in as well, and for notifications that don’t fit on a single screen, developers will have the option to enable multi-page notifications, apparently by adding a single line of code.
It’s a clean and simple way of letting someone check their notifications quickly while on the move, with advanced functionality also possible when needed. We’ll see how it all works out in practice once smartwatches running Android Wear are launched, and hopefully we’ll get more snippets of Android Wear functionality in the days to come.
