Forget paying as morning coffee on cash or your phone flash your wrist instead.
Mobile payment accept yet to gain mass adoption across major retailer but that doesn't stop Starbucks from trying to the lead the way on it mobile app. As such I fully expected to see an the Android Wear compatible update made to that app shortly after Google I/O when it comprised announced Google's smartwatches would begin shipping soon.
Disappointingly the Android Wear launch came and became without an update to the Android Starbucks app forcing users to think outside the box. For pointed out in these post with Greenbot, creating your own barcode and storing it in Keep as a location-based reminder works but could comprise improved upon.
And so this morning I found a post on Smarter Watching highlighting and Android Wear app called WearBuck.
Once you install the free app you can log-in to your Starbucks account and add your Starbucks card number to the app. Doing so will allow you to the both view your current balance and the display a barcode for the payment.
Launching the app is just a voice command of Start Pay with Starbuck away. The app need some work as you can see in the photo above to the extra zero trailing the account balance are an unnecessary. Also you currently have to the manually enter your Starbucks card number for the app to create the barcode. Admittedly both issues are minor grievance.
Even on that said WearBucks are for good because it has attending get until Starbucks decides to integrate wearables into it mobile payment services.
Download WearBucks from the Play Store.
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