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                <div class="landing-h1 hero">Android Wear</div>
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                <p>Small, powerful devices, worn on the body.
                Useful information when you need it most.
                Intelligent answers to spoken questions.
                Tools to help reach fitness goals.
                Your key to a multiscreen world.</p>
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            <div class="landing-h1">Extending Android to Wearables</div>
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              Android Wear extends the Android platform to a new generation of devices, <br>
              with a user experience that's designed specifically for wearables.

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                  Get glanceable, actionable information at just the right time with notifications
                  that are synced from your handheld device.
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                  Say “Ok Google” to send messages, ask questions, and get stuff done.
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                  Design apps that can access a wide range of sensors and other hardware
                   directly on the wearable.
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              Before you start building, check out the
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              to understand how to create great experiences for this exciting, new form factor.</p>

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            <div class="landing-h1">Developing for Android Wear</div>
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             The Android Wear APIs are delivered in the Android Support Library and Google Play
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                <p>Synced Notifications</p>
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                  Notifications on handhelds can automatically sync to wearables, so design them
                  with both devices in mind.
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                  <a href="{@docRoot}training/wearables/notifications/index.html">Build notifications</a>
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                <p>Voice Actions</p>
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                  Register your app to handle voice actions, like "Ok Google, take a&nbsp;note,"
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                  <a href="{@docRoot}training/wearables/apps/voice.html">Integrate voice actions</a>
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                <p>Build Wearable Apps</p>
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                  Create custom experiences with activities, services, sensors, and much
                  more with the Android SDK.
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                  <a href="{@docRoot}training/wearables/apps/index.html">Create wearable apps</a>
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                  Send data and actions between handhelds and wearables with
                  data replication APIs and RPCs.
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                  <a href="{@docRoot}training/wearables/data-layer/index.html">Work with the Data Layer</a>

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            <div class="landing-h1">Building an Ecosystem</div>
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                We’re working with partners around the world to build watches powered by Android Wear!
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            <div class="landing-h1 landing-align-left">Get Started with Android Wear</div>

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                Set up your development environment and start working with the APIs.
                We’re excited about the experiences you'll create and can't
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                    Read more about Android Wear development
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