In the previous section, we covered in some detail how to test our app. Testing is a prerequisite for distribution, and it would serve us well to familiarize ourselves with what differentiates a Wear app in terms of quality. Check out the article from the online documentation at https://developer.android.com/distribute/essentials/quality/wear.html, which serves as a reminder in this regard.
Once we have implemented our well-designed app and tested it as much as we can, we can start preparing to distribute it to potential users. That is the focus of this section to examine how to ready and distribute our Wear apps to users through Google Play.
As we go through the process of building our release APKs using Android Studio, we find that two different APKs are generated, one for mobile and one for wearable.
Packaging a wearable app in Android Studio involves the following steps:
Replicate all permissions from the manifest file of the wearable app module to the manifest...