Wearable development involves creating software for smartwatches, fitness trackers, and smart glasses where resources, display sizes, and battery power are highly constrained.
- Operating Systems & Frameworks:
- Wear OS (Android): Kotlin, Jetpack Compose for Wear OS, Watch Face Studio.
- watchOS (Apple): Swift, SwiftUI for Apple Watch, WatchKit.
- Resource Constraints:
- Small display layouts, rotary inputs, and gesture recognitions.
- Power Optimization:
- Low-power ambient mode screens, caching sensor polls, and optimizing background transfers.
- Sensor Interfaces:
- Heart rate monitors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, and GPS tracking.