Sunday, March 15, 2015

Google releases a collection of watch faces: Street Art

Android Wear has been around for a while and finally Google has released the first collection of watch faces. The whole collection is named Street Art, and it brings a great piece of art to your watch.

There are a lot of different paintings included, all of them featuring some piece of street art from Google Art Project. There are some well-known names behind those images, and you can get the whole collection for free from the Play Store.



The artists responsible for the beautiful watch faces are Aitch, Andre Fernandes Trindade, Cheko, DRAW, Drawing Jesus, Erik Otto, Gemeniano Cruz, God Mess, Hugo Lucas, Katch, L Is Not An Artist aka Luísa Cortesão, Mariana Dias Coutinho, Mercedes deBellard, Mercedes deBellard & Cheko, Nark, Nicolae Negura, Paulo Arraiano, Pedro Batista, Phibs, Reach, Samina, Slap, Sublinismo & Cheko, Tamara Alves & José Carvalho, The Empty Belly, Tinta Crua, and Will Barras.

When you install the app, you will have a few customization options. You can choose the style of the hour displayed by choosing among three options: minimal, analog or digital.

The minimal option uses a couple of small circles moving along a circle to show the time, while the analog face is a conventional round watch face. The numbers and hands and displayed over the picture and it's obviously more suited for round devices.  Finally, the digital face shows the time at the bottom, so you can see almost the full painting.

In addition, you can also decide if you want to see the date or not.



And that's all. There isn't any more options. The painting will change every few minutes to the next one, so you can't choose one and keep it on your screen. It's quite a drawback, and probably in some update Google will add some more options.

However, if you like this street art style, it's really worth a try. The paintings are really great to look at, so you can download the app and check if you find some that you really like.

You will find the Street Art app at the Play Store.