{"id":354085,"date":"2025-12-18T21:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354085\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:36:12","slug":"start-making-custom-watch-faces-with-androidify-for-wear-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354085\/","title":{"rendered":"Start making custom watch faces with Androidify for Wear OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_jg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"Androidify on Wear OS hero image\"  alt=\"Androidify on Wear OS hero image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Androidify-on-Wear-OS-hero-image-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mishaal Rahman \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<p>Google revived its Androidify app back in September, with AI-created custom bugdroid avatars.<br \/>\nShortly thereafter, we spotted work on a Wear OS version, but it wasn\u2019t yet public.<br \/>\nToday Androidify for Wear OS formally launches, letting you make your own personalized watch faces.<\/p>\n<p>For all the fantastic tools Google builds to help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-cc-3625685\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">organize, simplify, and just improve our day-to-day lives<\/a>, sometimes it\u2019s the silly ones that we end up caring about most. And why not? When they\u2019re entertaining and well executed, even Google goofiest products can definitely still impress. A few months back, we got a very good example of one of these with the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/create-custom-android-bot-with-androidify-3593760\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Androidify<\/a> \u2014 and now it\u2019s getting even better.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andauth.co\/AAGooglePreferredSource\" class=\"e_rm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"e_jg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\"  alt=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766093771_743_google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><img class=\"e_jg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\"  alt=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766093772_983_google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Androidify taps into Gemini\u2019s generative AI powers to create personalized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/googles-latest-android-14-statue-3371902\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bugdroid<\/a> avatars based on the photo you upload. And while we\u2019ve had a whole lot of fun playing with what it can create, we also noticed that Google was working on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/androidify-on-wear-os-hands-on-3598796\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wear OS version of Androidify<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While we were able to bring you an early preview of that in action, showing off the custom watch faces it could help you make, at the time this functionality wasn\u2019t yet publicly available.<\/p>\n<p>Today, that finally changes, as <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/feed\/android-bot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google<\/a> formally announces Wear OS support with Androidify\u2019s latest update.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re as big a fan of these weird little green guys as we are, give it a shot on your own smartwatch. Or if you\u2019re more just curious how this got made, Google\u2019s also got an exhaustive behind-the-scenes <a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2025\/12\/bringing-androidify-to-wear-os-with.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deep dive into the app\u2019s development<\/a>. And we would love to follow Google right down that rabbit hole, but right now we are FAR too busy generating more bugdroid avatars.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for being part of our community. Read our\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-authority-comment-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-authority-comment-policy\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Comment Policy<\/a> before posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Rahman \/ Android Authority TL;DR Google revived its Androidify app back in September, with AI-created custom bugdroid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49,48,195,192,13610,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-354085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-google-wear-os","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}