{"id":139951,"date":"2022-11-26T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/is-pixel-watch-going-to-get-a-full-gmail-or-calendar-wear-os-app\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T13:32:08","slug":"is-pixel-watch-going-to-get-a-full-gmail-or-calendar-wear-os-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/is-pixel-watch-going-to-get-a-full-gmail-or-calendar-wear-os-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Pixel Watch going to get a full Gmail or Calendar Wear OS app?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One constant between Android Wear to Wear OS 3 is the lack of dedicated Gmail or Google Calendar applications on watches. Amid the flurry of new devices and hardware advancements, it’s increasingly worthwhile for Google to rethink its reliance on rich notifications for key actions.<\/p>\n

With the first iteration of Android Wear, Google was dead set on a feed being the primary way you interact with your watch. Besides contextual cards from Google Now, you’d also have notifications, like those from Gmail which you could expand to read. <\/p>\n

Today, Gmail notifications let you read the full email, send an on-watch reply (via keyboard, voice, or emoji), archive, delete, or open on the phone. On the Pixel Watch, you swipe up to see emails and they coexist alongside every other alert. <\/p>\n

There is no \u201cGmail\u201d app that you can open to see your inbox and other folders, which is the case on the Apple Watch. Google tells developers to \u201ckeep the following principles in mind when designing apps\u201d:<\/p>\n