Add wearable features to notifications

Your notifications on watches have the same structure as notifications on phones. Additionally, to give users the best experience, Wear OS by Google provides APIs for adding wearable-specific features to notifications.

The following lessons show you how to create and issue notifications for Wearables. When you issue a notification from your app, each notification appears as a card on the Notification Stream.

Figure 1. The same notification displayed on a handheld and wearable.

Create a notification on Wear: Learn how to create notifications with wearable features with the Android support library.
Notification styles on Wear: Learn how to add different styles to a wearable notification.
Bridging mode for notifications on Wear: Learn how to handle duplicate notifications.
Maintain compatibility on Wear: Learn how to design your Wear app notifications to be compatible with the newer version of Wear OS.

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Last updated April 23, 2018.