[Software] Google already allows developers to create cards for Wear OS devices

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Google has opened its Jetpack card library to allow developers to create screens for wearable devices with the Wear OS operating system, thus freeing up its API and opening the possibility of creating card content without the need for pre-installed applications.

Through a post on Google's Android Developer Blog, the company announced that any developer will be able to access the 'Jetpack Tiles Library', a card content library ('Tiles') created in 2019 with sliding screen designs with diverse information. The 'Tiles' run on Wear OS, the Android-based operating system that runs on devices like smart watches and bracelets.

These cards are sliding screens that offer services such as time, clock, temperature, a timer ... or any other that the developer creates, without the need to use any application. They are thus the interactive interface of the products of Google's bodily devices.

Until now, the cards depended on the apps pre-installed by Google, but with the release of this library, any external developer will be able to create all kinds of 'Tile' for the enjoyment of customers. In addition, the available cards were limited to those designed by Google but, when opening the Jetpack Wear Titles API, the design is also to the taste of any developer.