Experience with Android Wear

Go out to ask is a product we have reported many times, they want to do is the Chinese version of Google Now. Specifically, it is a life service search based on natural semantic analysis, which you can use directly to query such as "where is the delicious Sichuan food nearby?" ", it will be able to understand what you mean and return to the relevant query results." Previously, the micro-credit public account version, the Android version, the iOS version, Google glass version has been introduced. Recently they have just released the Android version of Wear, which has been able to run on smart watches with the Android Wear system.

For example, you are now in Zhongguancun Business Street, you want to drink coffee, do not know where there is a café, still do not know how to go, to the watch to say "I want to go to Zhongguancun Business Street near the café", go out to ask will help you find out the nearby café, you can go up and down to choose Café, Slide around the fancy café information, navigate past, or make a phone call ahead of schedule. However, because now go out to ask the call or Baidu map services, so can only choose to open the phone on the Baidu map, or phone functions, still can't see the Android Wear watch conference on the kind of fluent coherent watch navigation.

Google's services are simply not available at home, so it's like asking for services and products that address the problems that Android Wear smart watch users just need. In addition, similar to Google Glass, whether it is the Android Wear version of the smart watch, or Apple Watch, there is no way to enter text, can only rely on simple point by operation and voice to interact with the future with in-depth learning and artificial intelligence in the field of progress and breakthroughs, Going out and asking what to do makes a lot of sense.

Of course, such a demand and meaningful project, there is a high threshold, natural language analysis of the previous report has been said a lot, in fact, we all know the difficulties. Another difficulty is porting to the Android Wear watch. Google has always been open source so that the product manager of the project once thought it would take only a week to finish. The actual situation is far more complicated than they think. In the Android Wear smart watch ecology, Google is not only a strict screening of the cooperative vendors, and not like the Android phone to open up the full set of system source code, but instead of all their services packaged, open up the SDK for Third-party developers, Developers can only develop their own applications on the basis of this SDK. Google's services in China can not be used, the package of services can not be used naturally, go out to ask can only invoke other services. Google to save power, the operation on the mobile phone side, between the watch and the mobile phone only left a very narrow communication channel, usually only used to sync fitness data, the message is enough, but the Chinese voice input, information is very easy to get stuck, for this go out to ask also from the bottom of the development of a set of Bluetooth communication protocol.

Experience LG G Watch on the go out to ask, Google to do smart watch ideas also have some new understanding. For Google, the smart watch is the second screen of a mobile phone, a notification center for smart phones that are worn on the wrist. As long as the messages in the Android phone's notification bar can be displayed on a watch, such as text messages, emails, calendars, and even micro-mail messages, users can do simple things like reading and filing, which can be reversed to the phone. This is an output-input process.

Smart watch screen Small, no keyboard, how to operate it? The most reliable is certainly the voice input, backstage by the mobile phone operation, the user does not need to operate the handset, the content will present to the user on the watch. This is an input-output process.

The future, smart watches and other wear equipment, can play the same role, the mobile phone is more like a carry-on operator, silently help us complete a variety of operations. A new trend is emerging on smartphones, with only "notification centers" enough, most apps will be invisible in the future, and "Notification Center + search" may be the main UI for mobile phones, and smart watches are likely to accelerate this trend.

Today, and go out to ask the team chat, also talked about a more interesting thing, is about micro-letter. Previously they had worked with micro-letters, hoping to get micro-letter support and develop an adaptation version so that users could respond to micro-mail messages directly on their watches, but the micro-letters didn't agree. But now the micro-letter is also the introduction of Apple Watch version of the official adaptation (specific highlights see the Apple Conference video). This also indirectly see some of the industry's attitude, we are more optimistic about Apple Watch shipments. The future is likely to repeat history: Google triggers smart watches, and Apple makes a milestone in smart watches. It is no wonder that the smart watch associated with the mobile phone, call maps, voice and other services, the mobilization of third-party developers, in itself is a giant to fight the ecology, to fight the resources of the matter, is the embodiment of strength.

Have got the Android Wear smart watch, and to go out to ask interested children's shoes, can be downloaded out of Google Play to ask the Android Wear version experience.

In the near future, we will also bring LG G Watch and Moto 360 hands-on experience, please look forward to.