Google today announced a handful of wearable and navigation updates, starting with public transit directions in Google Maps for Wear OS.
Google today announced a handful of wearable and navigation updates, starting with public transit directions in Google Maps for Wear OS.
That’s pretty cool! Google maps has had this for ages on Android, but the few open source apps that support the Dutch transit system don’t have it, unfortunately.
I have good hopes that Öffi will support Dutch transit eventually (it’s in alpha and there’s a central location and somewhat of a standard protocol that almost every possible public transport company uses), so maybe next time I try it, I’ll be able to use it.
I haven’t looked into the source code, but the little experience in smart watch development I have makes me think there are reasons this feature only made it to watches now; the batteries are tiny and the processors are slow, even compared to cheap budget phones.