Android Wear 5.0.0 Lollipop Released

[Bill Yi]

Hi all,

We pushed a small number of GPL projects for Android Wear Lollipop release. The tag is android-wear-5.0.0_r1. This release is not a full platform update and only for reference.

We also pushed the kernel projects for the following devices:

tag                     project    branch                            device

android-wear-5.0.0_r0.1 kernel/msm  android-msm-dory-3.10-lollipop-wear-release dory

android-wear-5.0.0_r0.2 kernel/msm  android-msm-sprat-3.10-lollipop-wear-release sprat

android-wear-5.0.0_r0.3 kernel/omap android-omap-minnow-3.10-lollipop-wear-release minnow

android-wear-5.0.0_r0.4 kernel/msm  android-msm-lenok-3.10-lollipop-wear-release lenok

android-wear-5.0.0_r0.5 kernel/bcm  android-bcm-tetra-3.10-lollipop-wear-release tetra

android-wear-5.0.0_r0.6 kernel/msm  android-msm-anthias-3.10-lollipop-wear-release anthias

Thanks!

bill

[Guoyin Chen]

Bill,

When we can get the full platform update on Android Wear?

Thanks!

Chen Guoyin

[Glenn Kasten]

AOSP does not usually publish schedules in advance of a release.

Releases are announced here when they happen.

[Woofbeans]

Pardon my ignorance, but how does this wear release differ from a non wear release?

I was hoping to build an image to flash my watch with and so downloaded android-wear-5.0.0_r1 but I don't see anything in it specific to building for a wearable, it seems virtually identical to non wearable aosp release.

[Glenn Kasten]

As mentioned in the first 12/16/14 post above, this is not a full platform update.

[Woofbeans]

Thank you and I had already seen that, however that says what it is not, but my question is what it is. 

If a wearable image can't be made with it then what can one do with it, what is its purpose? 

Please don't answer that its purpose is for reference only, what does it contain that one would want to refer to and what information could one obtain by referring to it?

I have synched the contents of this but looking through it I am struggling to see how it differs from a regular AOSP and thus I don't understand what it is exactly and why or how it might be of any use to anybody.

TIA
, 

[Al Sutton]

Certain components of Android (and therefore Wear) come from third parties and have licenses which require the source code to be made available (e.g. the Linux kernel). The components made available via the AOSP repositories for releases like Wear are, afaik, the components which have that type of license.

Wear is a release which has taken the same path as Honeycomb. I can understand that for open source fans and people looking to tinker with a working system it’s somewhat disappointing to see, but those are the choices Google has made.

Al.

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[Steve FAN]

Hi, building android-wear-5.0.0_r1 aosp_arm-eng is failing. First,
it's needs gcc 4.9 and clang 3.6 in prebuilts but these two are not
tracked in repo. After adding these two manually, there are numerous
build errors. I tried to fix some but there are just too many of
them...

Has anyone got luck building android-wear-5.0.0_r1?