Variant

Allows watch face creators to define modified appearances, by changing the values of specific color and geometric properties, when the Wear OS device is in different display modes. As of Wear OS 4, the only supported mode is ambient mode.

Introduced in Wear OS 4.

Syntax

<Variant mode="AMBIENT" target="attribute-name" value="valid-value" />

Attributes

The Variant element has the following attributes:

mode

The mode that the Wear OS device must be in for the variant to take effect.

As of Wear OS 4, this value must be AMBIENT.

target

The attribute whose value should change when the specified Wear OS device mode takes effect.

value

The value that the attribute should have when the specified Wear OS device mode takes effect.