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Egor Mikheev2018-08-13 11:21:53
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Egor Mikheev, 2018-08-13 11:21:53

Can you recommend a suitable microcontroller to host google's wear os?

I decided to "play around" with wear os from google. It is fundamentally important to have your own hardware platform on which this system is planned to be placed. Accordingly, the following questions arise.
1) Are there microcontrollers suitable for hosting wearos
2) Is development of hardware for this axis available at all to "amateurs"?

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Lex Fradski, 2018-08-28
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Well, for starters, let me remind you that Wear OS is not Android. This operating system is based on it, but it has different licensing conditions. Simply put, this is a proprietary OS and a third-party developer cannot build their own Wear firmware from source or anything like that, and you need to get a special license to use this system. In theory, yes, any chipset compatible with a modern Android should be compatible with Wear OS, but in fact, at the moment, all Wear OS watches on the market are based on only five chipsets: the most popular is the most common Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 and its budget brother MediaTek MT2601, outdated Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, Samsung Exynos 3250, Intel Atom Z3520 chips are also used. With the exception of the last one, they are all based on the ARM Cortex A7 processor.
The only currently available alternatives to Wear OS that can be used "at home" is actually regular Android (not Wear), which you yourself can adapt to a mobile device, as, for example, Chinese smart watch manufacturers and the recently appeared AsteroidOS do

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