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<h1 itemprop="name">Google Play services Preview for Wear</h1>

    
  


  
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<p>The Google Play services app is currently being rolled out to the hundreds of millions of
Android devices and will complete in early July. Because of this, we usually wait to release the Google Play
services SDK until all users receive the app. This guarantees that your newly-updated apps can
run on the most devices as possible.</p>

<p>However, if want to develop for Android Wear now, complete the following steps
to get special access to all the things you need to start developing, without waiting
for the rollout to complete. </p>

<p class="warning"><b>Warning</b>: Do not publish any apps that use the new Google Play services
APIs until the rollout is complete. Your apps will break on most user devices, which will
degrade your user rating.</b>
<p>Google Play services 5.0  is currently being rolled out to the world.
We usually wait to release the Google Play services SDK until the rollout completes.
This ensures that your newly-updated apps can run on the most devices as possible.</p>

<p>However, if you want to develop for Android Wear now, complete the following steps to get
special access to all the things you need to start developing, without waiting for the rollout to
complete.</p>

<p class="warning"><b>Warning</b>: Do not publish any apps that are built with Google Play services
SDK 5.0 until the rollout is completed over the coming days.  Your apps will break on most user
devices, which will degrade your apps’ user experience. We’ll publish an update to the
<a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/">Android Developer blog</a> when the rollout is done.
</p>

<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0px;">1. Get Whitelisted for the Preview</h2><hr>

<p>If you attended Google I/O, your registered Gmail account is automatically whitelisted for these
preview resources. If you didn't attend Google I/O, sign up below to get access:</p>
<p>If you attended Google I/O, your registered Google  account is automatically whitelisted for
these preview resources. If you didn't attend Google I/O or want to use a different account:</p>

<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/io14androidweardev">Get Whitelisted</a>
<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/io14androidweardev">Join the Google Group</a>
to get whitelisted.

<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0px;">2. Download Required Apps</h2><hr>
<p>You'll need the following apps to get the most out of Android Wear:</p>


<p>Here's a list of the apps you need:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.gms">Google Play services</a>: Allows your Wear device to properly communicate with your handheld device. This is
required to use the Android Wear Companion App.</li>
<li><a href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.gms">Google Play services</a>: 
Allows your Android Wear device to communicate with your handheld device. This is required to
use the Android Wear app and other apps listed below.</li>
  <li><a href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.wearable.app">Android Wear
  Companion</a>: The main user app to pair a handheld to a wearable and to provide syncing
  of notifications and data.</li>
  Companion</a>: The app for pairing a handheld to a wearable and providing syncing of
  notifications and data
  </li>
  <li><a href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox">Google
  Search</a>: A preview release of the Google Search handheld app that Wear communicates with
  to carry out searches.</li>
  <li><a href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.keep">Google Keep</a>: To enable the "Take a note" command</li>
  <li><a href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.samples.apps.iosched">Google I/O 2014</a></li>
  Search</a>: Enables searches from Android Wear</li>
  <li><a href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.android.keep">Google Keep</a>:
  Supports the "Take a note" command</li>
  <li><a href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.google.samples.apps.iosched">Google I/O
  2014</a>:
  Supports session feedback from Android Wear</li>
 </ul>

<p>To enable the preview versions of the apps, click each app link above and follow these
instructions:</p>
<p>To obtain these apps from Google Play, click each app link above and follow these instructions,
preferably from your mobile browser:</p>

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 <li>Click the <b>Become a Tester</b> button to opt-in to the preview version of the app. The page
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 Store download page to get the app. The
 following screenshot shows how the opt-in process looks like:
<img style="margin-top:40px" src="/preview/images/opt-in.png"></li>
 <li>When Google Play services is rolled out to all devices, go back to the app links provided
  to opt-out of the preview versions of the apps. Check back here in a week for the status of
  the rollout.</li>
</ol>



<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0px;">3. Start Building</h2><hr>
<p>Check out the <a href="/training/building-wearables">Building Apps for Wearables</a>
training classes for information on how to build for Wear.</p>
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