Posted yesteryear Hoi Lam, Lead Developer Advocate, Wear OS yesteryear Google
From the cause of the Wear OS yesteryear Google developer preview, battery life has been a major focus area. When nosotros talked to the developer community, the update that attracted the nearly feedback was the disabling of alarms in addition to jobs for background apps. After listening to developer feedback in addition to reviewing the battery statistics, nosotros are reversing this change. This should live reflected inwards all connected Wear OS preview devices, therefore at that topographic point is no remove to reflash your device.
App Standby Buckets
The determination came equally nosotros reviewed the feedback in addition to saw that a strict on/off setting prevents reasonable usage in addition to promotes anti-patterns. Going forward, nosotros conception to leverage the App Standby Buckets characteristic inwards Android P to fine-tune a suitable setting for Wear OS devices. The exact setting for alarms in addition to jobs for background apps is however beingness iterated on. Developers are advised to follow the best practices to brand certain their apps comport well, whichever bucket the apps are in.
Input in addition to information privacy inwards background apps
Another expanse that developers should pay attending to is the strengthening of input in addition to information privacy for background apps inwards Android P. Depending on an app's requirements, developers may remove to role a foreground service to enable access to the device sensor throughout the day.
Please hand us your feedback
We facial expression to supply to a greater extent than updates to this preview before the lastly production release. Please submit whatever bugs y'all notice via the Wear OS yesteryear Google number tracker. The before y'all submit them, the higher the likelihood that nosotros tin include the fixes inwards the lastly release.
