While smartwatches are supposed to make our lives easier by letting us read notifications and do tasks without opening our devices, it’s still in its early stages and so it’s still a pain to use sometimes. It takes users a few steps to open an app, even with the voice prompt feature. Wear Mini Launcher is a new app created for wearables, specifically to give easy access to locally installed apps on your smartwatch.
Based on its name, the app’s function is easy enough to understand. When you swipe right to the top left side of your smartwatch, it will launch an app drawer where you will be able to see all the apps that are installed in your wearable. Normally, it will take you several steps to be able to open the app that you want to use, and even if you use the voice prompt, it still doesn’t immediately boot up (and it sometimes doesn’t understand you, admit it).
Of course it’s a given already that in order for this to work, you need both a smartphone and a smartwatch that is running on Android Wear. For now, the only ones on this platform are LG G Watch, Samsung Gear Live and the upcoming Moto 360. You can download Wear Mini Launcher from the Google Play Store for free. Install it on your smartphone first, while the smartwatch is still connected. Then you need to open the app on your watch to be able to launch the app grid for the first time.
The app however, is also still in its early stages, and so expect that it still won’t work perfectly. Expect also a lot of updates for bug fixes and installation issues. But at least, if you do get it to work, it will make your wearable life even easier.
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