How to write a simple Android wear app with both round and rectangular layouts, as well as how to show notifications from your smartphone.

Wear OS 5.1 is based on Android 15, indicating a shift in Google's strategy. App developers can now test Wear OS 5.1 in Android Studio. Wear OS 5.1 may not bring significant user-facing changes.

Xamarin, with an upgrade to its Mono for Android SDK on Monday, is adding a drag-and-drop, graphical designer for building Android application interfaces within either Microsoft’s Visual Studio ...

The latest release of Android Studio, dubbed Dolphin, improves Jetpack Compose screen previews, extends Wear OS support, and introduces Gradle Managed Virtual Devices to simplify test automation.

Wear OS 3 is still coming (despite what you can get from Samsung with its Galaxy Watches), so Android Studio is still catching up to devs' needs here.