At this past weekend’s SXSW Interactive conference, Sundar Pichai, Google’s senior VP of Android, apps, and Chrome, announced that his company will ship a wearables SDK within two weeks.
Translation for those who don’t speak Geek: Google is about to make available tools (an SDK is a “software development kit”) that will make it easier for developers to build software that can connect sensors to Android phones.
One hope is that this will encourage the people who build wearable hardware and the software that goes with it to use the Android operating system in their devices rather than rolling their own OS. The SDK will also make life easier to write code that connects wearables to Android phones.
There’s also increasing speculation that Google will introduce a smart watch at its Google I/O conference in late June, possibly in collaboration with LG Electronics.