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hello everybody its crystal Ora from Android Authority and I have a new jewel version of the Huawei watch with me so you can expect a full review of it coming within the next couple of days but for now let's focus on what Google just announced today at Google i/o Android wear 2.0 so that's running here on my Huawei watch and Google's main focus is to make the watch more of a standalone device although it's an extension of your phone they want you to be able to interact with the notifications even more instead of having to resort back to the phone to do things so first off you'll notice different looking cards here they almost fill up the entire screen and have a nice colored background with a color changing depending on the app and if you take notice to the right side of the display as I scroll through we have a scroll bar that curves around the side which is very helpful for knowing just how many notifications you have left when you receive things like text messages you'll notice that your contacts profile picture doesn't take up the entire background and now instead it shows us a little Avatar on the top now if you want to interact with a notification card it used to be that you would swipe to the left to bring up an action and continue sleeping for more but now it's a little simpler you just need to tap on the card and it will bring up a main option so for this text I have here I can click reply and if I want to bring up even more options I can swipe up on the screen and I'll be shown other ways to interact so if I want to reply I'll tap reply and I have my normal options but on the right we have a new option where we can actually respond however we want in silent by typing on a keyboard this seems a little ridiculous at first to type on a full QWERTY keyboard on a one inch screen but it works quite well and it's definitely a feature I wish was an Android wear for a while but if this is a little too hard you can always change the keyboard by long pressing on the keyboard icon to change it to handwriting where you can draw large letters and the screen will actually shift to make room for your next letter which is a little more watch friendly so Google is introducing a more material design friendly interface with Android wear 2.0 which includes a darker UI which makes much more sense on a wearable when we pull down from the top we have all of our system toggles on one screen which is nice because no more swiping with one toggle on each page now if you tap the crown we have a new animation that brings up all your apps and as you can see we don't have that bright background anymore which blends in a little nicer with the theme of the watch and when we scroll up and down the list of apps we have another new animation where the apps kind of curve around the display and this definitely makes a lot more sense especially on this round display like the Huawei watch one of the biggest new features is an introduction to complications API where any watch face can show data from any app you can choose a position and then the app itself it's kind of like adding little widgets to your watch face but once again they'll work with any watch face and of course you can click these complications to bring up apps themselves and as cool as this is is definitely not the biggest feature here the main story is standalone apps so now apps can run on your watch even when your phone isn't with you whether that be on Android or iOS the apps now have direct access to the cloud via bluetooth Wi-Fi or cellular if you happen to I have a watch like the LG watch urbane this pretty much means you'll be able to interact no matter how far away you are from your phone even if your phone dies if you use your watch for fitness a lot this last feature will cause some excitement because Android wear 2.0 has some improvements involving google fit where certain apps now have the option to automatically recognize when you're running walking or biking or even things like push-ups or other strength training exercises google says Android wear 2.0 is the biggest update to ever hit the wearable scene and so far these new features definitely look promising Android wear 2.0 is going to be available sometime this fall but if you're a developer you're in luck because you can start using Android wear 2.0 today for testing let us know what you think about Android wear 2.0 in the comments below and be sure to give this video a like if you enjoyed also click that subscribe button if you're not already subscribed for even more coverage from Google i/o 2016 thank you very much for watching and don't forget to check out our website Android Authority comm for a more in-depth look because we are your source for all things Android