The Samsung Gear 2 is a smartwatch from Samsung that was launched early last year. It ran Samsung’s own smartwatch platform instead of Android Wear which is fine if you’re perfectly happy with the default features of the watch. However if you’re looking for more app compatibility, Android Wear appears to be the natural choice here.
Now the good news for Samsung Gear 2 owners is that if you wished the device ran Android Wear instead of Samsung’s own smartwatch platform, you’re in luck as XDA developer biktor_gj has successfully managed to port Android Wear over onto the smartwatch. This was the result of about four months worth of work and it seems that progress is a tad slow.
So far it only looks like touchscreen support and Bluetooth are working at the moment, and given that unlike Android which is open-source, Android Wear is not so getting support and access to the platform’s other features and functions might be tricky. However the developer is optimistic that he will be able to get most of it up and running in the future, but in the meantime the port is a sign that the Gear 2 might not necessarily have to be locked down to one platform.
In the meantime if you’d like to follow biktor_gj’s progress on his Android Wear port onto the Gear 2, then head on over to the XDA forums for the details.
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