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Build apps for the wrist with Wear OS
Write apps that help users live more present, healthy, and productive lives with Wear OS. With major improvements to the core experience and big changes to the platform, there’s a lot to be excited about.
Reach more users
Engage your audience on the fastest growing smartwatch platform. Active Wear OS devices have grown 5x since the launch of Wear OS 3.
Drive engagement
Boost in-app engagement and the business value of your app by bringing your app to your user's wrist.
Streamline development
Leverage the latest Modern Android APIs and tools, making it easier than ever to create an app for Wear OS.
Get started with Wear OS
Design for Wear OS
The updated design guidelines for Wear OS cover the Wear OS design systems, UI components, UX patterns, and styles.
Create watch faces
Design a watch face using Watch Face Studio, or use the Watch Face Format to develop tools for watch faces.
Explore Wear OS surfaces
Learn to build for multiple surfaces for your wear OS app.
Improve your app quality
Find out how to assess the quality of your app and fulfill the upcoming requirements on Google Play Store.
New features
Wear OS 6
The latest version of Wear OS—complete with support for seamless authentication with Credential Manager, personal customization with Material 3 Expressive, and support for watch face marketplaces with Watch Face Push—is here! Test your app using the official emulator in Android Studio.
Highlighted samples & codelabs
Compose for Wear OS
Compose for Wear OS is a modern declarative UI toolkit and is the recommended approach for building apps on Wear OS. Design your app with familiar UI components adapted for the watch.
Horologist for Wear OS
This project provides libraries that aim to supplement Wear OS developers with features that are commonly required by developers but not yet available elsewhere. Including the media toolkit, prebuilt composables, and layouts.
Latest news
Join the Wear OS community
Stack Overflow
Ask a question on Stack Overflow
Bug tracker
Report an issue and track bugs
Slack group
Join the #compose-wear channel on the KotlinLang Slack