Google’s new Androidify app just made the jump over to Wear OS, and you can now use it to create custom watch faces for your smartwatch. Launched earlier this year, the rebooted app uses Google’s Gemini and Imagen to turn your photos into personalized bugdroid avatars. Now, with its latest update, you can display these custom Android Bots on your wrist.
Until now, the Androidify app let you use your custom bots as wallpapers, social media avatars, or stickers. It now also lets you push these bots from your phone to your Wear OS watch as a personalized watch face.
Setting up these watch faces is pretty straightforward. Google explains that once you’ve created a bot using either a selfie or text prompt, the Androidify app now offers an option to send it to your watch. You can choose from several different watch face templates, and the app will generate a version featuring your bot and push it directly to your smartwatch.
Powered by the Watch Face Push API
In a separate post, Google revealed that the Androidify app uses the new Watch Face Push API for this new functionality. The post goes into great detail on how the app creates, packages, installs, and applies the watch faces. It also encourages developers to leverage this new API to improve their watch face apps, and offer users a more seamless experience.
You can try out the custom watch faces on your smartwatch by downloading the latest version of the Androidify app from the Play Store. The watch face feature appears to be limited to Wear OS 6 watches at the moment, but Google could expand support to devices running an older version of the platform at a later date.
