When are we getting a new Wear OS ingress app?
A long time ago in an age called the Redacted age, an age long gone, an age yet to be, an app was born for Wear OS. The app was neither the first app, nor the last app, but it was the ingress app for Wear OS.
By the time the age of Redacted came to an end, so came the end of the Ingress Wear app.
All ages come and go, and so shall the age of the Ingress Wear app come again.
.. Ok.. Lets be serious.
If we're going a few years back, back to when we still had the Ingress Redacted scanner, there was a companion app called Ingress Wear, it was a basic app which let you do single hacks without having to open your phone (it was great for walking the dog as well as when out with non-ingress players).
With the release of Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 series, Samsung have left their own OS Tizen behind and are using a modified Wear OS, potentiallt opening the market for the Ingress Wear app for many more users which previously wasn't able to run the app on their watch
My question is simple, it's not are we getting a new Prime version of the but rather when are we getting a new Ingress Wear app?
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The smartwatch portion of redacted was never touched since it was added. It seemed like one of the last things that happened when Niantic was part of Google. Ever since then, there has been no focus on the smartwatches. There was supposed to be smart bands that depended on the API but that never came to fruition.
I really hope that the increased use of Wear OS might result in an eventual relaunch of a new Ingress wear app, it would be a really good addition
The strange thing is despite prime or redacted never having the watch code in the app there is this confusing article
https://www.androidauthority.com/best-wear-os-games-android-wear-games-667988/
We don't need watch apps so people can build the equivalent of a go'tcha that hands out free gear as you drive your car past portals. PoGo-level laziness not needed.
Haha it's Android Authority, they are terrible news for anything