Google is trying for more standalone Android Wear apps. According to Android Apps Weekly, big change this week makes standalone apps compatible with Android Wear 1 . 0 . It was available only on Android Wear 2 . 0 previously . The change also affects iOS with Android Wear . Hopefully, this motivates developers to make more Wear apps . The pickings are a little thin. The change will take effect in January of 2018.
The Walking Dead: Our World was announced earlier this week . The game is an AR experience . Players can slaughter zombies in the real world wherever they are. There are cameo appearances from the show . They show up to help you kill zombies. There’ s no release date just yet . However , it should be sometime soon . Season eight is just around the corner .
The Google Play Indie Game Festival finalists were announced this week: Some of the finalists include Crashy Cars , 7 Pin Pool , Star Vikings Forever , Slayaway Camp, Storm Wars , and Topsoil . There are just shy of two dozen total finalists . The event itself takes place on September 23 . Thus, we only have a couple of weeks until we find out the winners .
Amazon Alexa and Cortana have some big updates coming: Namely, they will soon talk to each other . The idea works like this . You can use Windows 10 to tell Cortana to talk to Alexa and vice versa . This collaboration won ’t make either better than the competition individually . However, the two combined is definitely the best personal assistant experience out there . That ’ s assuming they do it right .
Google Assistant may be getting a huge feature in Android Oreo: There is code that suggests that third party apps can open Google Assistant . That means you can have the experience without leaving whatever app is open . There are a laundry list of requirements . The app has to work on Oreo, the phone has to be on Oreo, and then developers can add Google Assistant integration .
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