Android Wear with an iPhone, a developer demonstrates it’s possible

As you already know, Android Wear watches and iPhones aren’t compatible. Despite Google claiming that they’ll work on supporting iPhones in the future, to this day you’re still out of luck.

But that hasn’t stopped one intrepid Android developer from getting the two devices to engage in some friendly, albeit limited, dialog. 

Android developer Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh figured out that if you just treat the Android Wear watch like a Pebble watch, and you’re using iOS 7 or later, you can use Apple’s Notification Center Service to deliver iPhone notifications to your Android Wear smart-watch. Abu-Garbeyyeh then used an app on his Moto 360 to catch the incoming notification and present it for him to view.

If you’re wanting to go above reading notifications, like getting directions or making use of the smart-watch’s sensors to deliver biometrics to your iPhone, it won’t work. For that, you’re still going to need an Android device with the Android Wear app. As for the smart-watch app that Abu-Garbeyyeh uses, he says that if enough interest is gathered, he’d make the app available for download.

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Source: The Verge

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