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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: Do not publish any apps that use the new Google Play services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: Do not publish any apps that are built with Google Play services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.

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<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>

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<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

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  <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>

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<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

 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>

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<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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