Top 7 Lollipop API watch faces for your Android Wear smartwatch

Back in early December, Google finally got around to releasing the application program interface (API) for Android Wear watches. Up to that point, app developers and user interface artists were left in the dark about how to get watch faces onto devices like the Moto 360. A few developers, like Facer for example, were winging it, and doing a pretty good job at that.

Now that it’s been almost a month since the API was released, the Play Store is beginning to show signs of life in the watch face category so I spent some time going through the watch faces for my Samsung Gear Live and made a list of my top 7 favorites. Note that these seven picks will look good on a square or rounded watch, but the final three do favor the circular design.

#1: 500px

Launched in Toronto back in 2009, co-founders Oleg Gutsol and Evgeny Tchebotarev aimed to make a location online for photographers to create a professional gallery for their work. That website became 500px (pronounced “five hundred pixels”) and since its debut, it now has 2.5 million registered users and touts 10 million active users per month.

Now this month, 500px added a new feature to their mobile app, which will create two watch face options (one digital, one analog) inside of the Google Android Wear app.

There are no settings for these watch faces and they seemingly cycle through your favorite photos list, as well as other photographs seeded by 500px themselves, every time you leave the default screen and come back to it. This could be done by either letting your watch face dim or by pulling up a card and returning to the home screen.

The information overlay on the home screen is simply the time and 500px’s logo.

The pictures are, of course, beautiful. This isn’t Instagram so these are mostly photos from professionals and aspiring photographers.

I would’ve liked to have seen more information on the home screen, like battery life or the local temperature, as well as settings for the watch face, like a photo switching frequency or a change in the color of the text. These options might come in a future update.

The 500px app is free and, if you check it out, remember that this is the main 500px app. It just happens to come with the two watch faces baked in as a side perk.

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