It’s SXSW time and Google’s Senior Vice President of Chrome and Android, Sundar Pichai took some time to talk about the upcoming developer tools from the company. Interestingly, Google is gearing up to release its Android SDK for wearable devices, opening up opportunities for the developers targeting wearables.
While Mr. Pichai did not reveal any information about the products that Google is working on, taking this direction does seem that the company has something to show during this year’s Google I/O, which is scheduled to happen on June 25th and June 26th at San Francisco.
Talking about the new SDK for the developers, he revealed that the company is trying to layout a vision for the developers to see how the market is working out for wearables. And opening up the Android SDK for wearable devices will literally unify the process of communicating between different wearables, making the entire wearable device ecosystem even more connected.
Mr. Pichai also shared that unifying the way data will be communicated to Android from these wearables is very important, and this is just a small move by Google to bridge that gap. One of the major disadvantages that we have seen in the recent wearable devices, is the ability to talk to some proprietary devices and not with any other devices. But this layer, that Google is working on, might just remove this limitation and make the entire ecosystem open for all.
If what we have been hearing is true, Google is planning to launch its own Smartwatch during this year’s annual developer conference. One hint that can be picked up from the man who is overseeing Google’s two major wings, Chrome and Android, is the point that the company is looking for plenty of feedback from the developers before it can do something about wearables.
Wearables are more of sensors than just a cellular radio in them. And we will have to wait and see what Google has got in its bag to empower these sensors and collect data to the devices.