OnePlus One, OnePlus 2 Getting Android 6.0 Marshmallow Early Next Year

Google’s latest OS update will be coming to all Android Wear smartwatches in “coming months”.

The watch was the first device released running Android 6.0 Marshmallow, with Google citing the watch yesterday in their note to developers to begin targeting the Android 6.0 API level 23. Thankfully, a few OEM’s like Samsung, Sony, HTC and Motorola have announced their list of smartphones that are getting the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update. Despite the users’ demands for the company to create an API for fingerprinting processes for the current Oxygen OS, OnePlus has made a decision to switch to the standard Android M implementation instead. Other Android-based smartwatches will receive the OTA update for API 23 based on Android Marshmallow in the “coming months”.

A new runtime permission model in API 23 gives uers leeway when selecting preferred permissions while opening apps.

While detailing it further said Wayne Piekarski, Developer Advocate on Developer blog “API 23 makes it easier to build apps for both round and square Android Wear watches”.

Previous reports have revealed that the Tag Heuer Connected smartwach launched with Intel x86 processors. It has several other features including support for external speakers, Intel x86 chip, and the “round” and “notround” resource qualifiers. It is also the first smartwatch to have built-in speaker support. This is the second-gen LG Watch Urbane and the watch continues the same classy design as its predecessor, but if there was one major change that wasn’t really marketed, it is the fact that the watch runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

Having cellular support does not mean that the Android Wear smartwatch can function independently from the smartphone, though.