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Android Wear 2.8 Released – Download available with System Wide Black Theme

Updated on March 30, 2018 by Stephen Ojo

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Android Wear 2.8 is being rolled out for smartwatches that run on the Android Wear OS (which is virtually every smartwatch save for those from Apple), and while the changelog list is not long, the individual changes coming with this update are big. From what we’ve seen, Android Wear 2.8 is here to help you squeeze more battery life out of your smartwatch, as well as make you more dependent on your smartwatch for basic telephony functions.

Android Wear 2.8 Version Download Update

Google announced the new Android Wear update, Android Wear 2.8 on a Android Wear support page on the 19th of January, and Reddit user Yozakgg noticed that his Huawei Watch 2 had updated to the latest version on the same day. Android Wear 2.8 is currently undergoing a staged release by Google and not many people have gotten it yet, so if your Watch hasn’t updated yet there’s no need to panic.

Table of Contents

  • 1 Android Wear 2.8 Changelog
    • 1.1 System-Wide Black Theme
    • 1.2 Improvements in Notifications
  • 2 How to Update to Android Wear 2.8

Android Wear 2.8 Changelog

Android Wear 2.8 Watch face
Android Wear 2.8 Notifications

Unlike previous releases of the Android Wear OS, the official Android Wear 2.8 changelog by Google is short. In the Search Engine giant’s own words:

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This new update has improved notification glanceability with a new layout which shows more of your message at a glance.
We have also made the background darker for better readability.

System-Wide Black Theme

Android Wear OS 2.8 Appearance
Android Wear 2.8 on Huawei Watch 2

Android Wear 2.8 applies a new black theme to your Android smartwatches. As Google says, this is to improve readability as previous versions of Android Wear have their menus and options pages in grey colours instead of black, thereby making it a bit hard to read things on the screen under sunlight and direct light.

Apart from readability improvement, a system-wide black theme could help extend battery life on devices with LED (OLED, AMOLED) displays. Since most of the display will be black most of the time, LED displays will consume less power since they switch off pixels to display black.

Improvements in Notifications

This new feature is unclear at the moment, but the description made by Google suggests that you will be able to see more contents of your notifications at a glance. If this is what I’m thinking it is, users will start relying more on their smartwatches since they can derive most of the info they need just by glancing at their wrists.

How to Update to Android Wear 2.8

Previous software updates to the Android Wear OS required an OTA download and upgrade, but with Android Wear 2.8, all you need is just the Android Wear Companion App for Android.

Simply update your Android Wear Companion App for Android to the latest version (version 2.7.0.180439970) and pair it with your Android Wear smartwatch, and when the rollout expands to you, your smartwatch automatically updates to version 2.8.0.181612071.

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One thing you might want to keep in mind while wishing for the v2.8 update is that you can’t switch back to the appearance in the former version; once it all becomes black, it stays black.

Tagged With: Android Wear, Smartwatch

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