Glance Wear

Declaring dependencies

To add a dependency on glance-wear, you must add the Google Maven repository to your project. Read Google's Maven repository for more information.

Add the dependencies for the artifacts you need in the build.gradle file for your app or module:

dependencies {
    implementation "androidx.glance.wear:wear:1.0.0-alpha04"

    implementation "androidx.glance.wear:wear-core:1.0.0-alpha04"
}

dependencies {
    implementation("androidx.glance.wear:wear:1.0.0-alpha04")

    implementation("androidx.glance.wear:wear-core:1.0.0-alpha04")
}

For more information about dependencies, see Add build dependencies.

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Version 1.0

Version 1.0.0-alpha04

February 25, 2026

androidx.glance.wear:wear:1.0.0-alpha04 and androidx.glance.wear:wear-core:1.0.0-alpha04 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha04 contains these commits.

API Changes

• Added GlanceWearWidgetManager API for allowing Apps to query their active widgets and tiles. (I5be95)
• We have moved APIs from the glance:wear:wear-core library into the androidx.glance.wear.core package. (I429cf)

Bug Fixes

• Expose common Remote Composable and Modifier types (Id1d40)

Version 1.0.0-alpha03

February 11, 2026

androidx.glance.wear:wear:1.0.0-alpha03 and androidx.glance.wear:wear-core:1.0.0-alpha03 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha03 contains these commits.

API Changes

• Add support for Interaction Events to GlanceWearWidget. (Ia4e28, b/469808447)

Version 1.0.0-alpha02

January 28, 2026

androidx.glance.wear:wear:1.0.0-alpha02 and androidx.glance.wear:wear-core:1.0.0-alpha02 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha02 contains these commits.

New Features

• Re-map FULLSCREEN to LARGE in Widget params (ad78d95)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed usage of DataStore that would prevent multiple widget instances of being shown (474f3e4)

Version 1.0.0-alpha01

January 14, 2026

androidx.glance.wear:wear:1.0.0-alpha01 and androidx.glance.wear:wear-core:1.0.0-alpha01 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha01 contains these commits.

• Glance Wear is a library for building Widgets for Wear OS using RemoteCompose.