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Cadence detection API for Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 (Wear OS)?
Is there any other Cadence API for Wear OS?
I'm trying to calculate running cadence and display the information on the UI, but I have no idea how to do it.
I found val RUNNING_STEPS: DeltaDataType<...
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Change complication color dynamically? (Wear OS Jetpack Watch Face API)
How do I change the complication icon color dynamically in the renderer class?
I can set the color and other styles while creating the watchface in the createComplicationSlotsManager inside the ...
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How to collect Sleep Cycle/Sleep Stages in standalone WearOS application?
My task: collecting information about sleep stages (AWAKE, SLEEPING, DEEP and etc.) in a standalone WearOS application.
We currently use Health Services to collect information about steps, distance, ...
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Android wear OS launch a web page on iPhone
In our watch app, we are implementing login flow via DAG.
It works as expected with a connected iPhone, however, we are facing a problem with launching a verification URL on an iPhone.
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Detect if Wear OS device is connected to iPhone
Is there a way to determine if my Android watches are connected to an android phone or an iPhone?
We have a business case do differs between these two cases and use PKCE for android and DAG ...
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Health Service on wear os
I create app in wear os using Health Service sdk. When watch enter ambientMode service not get me datas from service. How to fix this problem. I read documentation of this it say should set ...
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How can I remove a underline of Text on Android Wear Notification?
Hello? I am developing a Android Wear Application.
Recently, I am testing my app on Galaxy Watch 4.
And I noticed that underline is added automatically to some texts which have series of number.
Here ...
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Wear OS redirect issue PKCE
In our watch app project, we are using the PKCE approach to open a web view on a phone where the user puts login and password, and then using as a redirect url https://wear.googleapis.com/3p_auth/com....
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How to read exercise seconds in ambient mode
I used the open source code of Android's Wear OS Exercise Sample to create an exercise program. Its function is to stop exercising immediately when the time is equal to the number of seconds I set.
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What is the equivalent of the Confirmation composable on Jetpack Compose for mobile
I have been using the confirmation composable in my Wear OS app for some time and I am now working on porting the app to mobile. What is the best equivalent for the confirmation composable on mobile ...
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CompanionDeviceManager Bluetooth dialogue is not shown on Fossil Gen 6 with Wear OS 3 / Android 11
I have two apps with very similar code base working fine on mobile (Android 13 / API 33) and wear (Android 11 / API level 30) with the old style Bluetooth connection procedure.
When trying to publish ...
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Can't install packages while in secure FRP
We are currently facing a challenging issue with Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 (sm-r860) / Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 (sm-r900) / Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 (sm-r930)after the recent update to WearOS 4.0. Our Mobile ...
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How to connect and detect smartwatch in flutter
I want to connect a smartwatch (e.g. Galaxy Watch) with a Flutter app on Android and receive steps or information from the smartwatch.
What should I do?
Is there no other way than using our own SDK or ...
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Wear OS foreground service pauses after a few minutes
I'm building a Wear OS app using Flutter (I don't believe this is a flutter-related issue).
My app needs to read data from a BLE device every 2 seconds.
I'm trying to run the long-lasting task of ...
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Android Studio Giraffe - WEAR OS - Only compose?
I got the Android Studio Giraffe installed on a new computer... While trying to create a new project it doesnt show me the options for creating a view project like the previous version (or choose the ...
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My Wear OS app always rejected because it doesn't show scrollbar
In my Wear OS app, I used a ScalingLazyColumn to implement the List. I am also showing the Scrollbar using PositionIndicator.
The reason the app is rejected is always the same. It's because the "...
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WearOS app rejected because of "show scrollbars" [duplicate]
I have a WearOS app published since years but since a few weeks updates get rejected with the helpful message "show the scrollbar" and link. For the best of my knowledge, and I checked ...
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Android Wear OS Health Services - Sleep Detection
Is there any way to programmatically subscribe to sleep / awake events from within an app that uses Android Wear OS' Health Services?
The docs reference creating synthetic data for these events (see ...
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WearOS Health Services Spot Measurements
Does WearOS Health Services allow taking spot measurements for anything other than HEART_RATE_BPM? I have tried checking the list of capabilities on both a Google Pixel Watch 2 and the emulator, and ...
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Wear OS App cannot find companion mobile app when distributed through app center as android bundle
I am creating a companion wearable application for an android application. Both the apps work perfectly and communicate with each other when built as debug apk and signed apk. However, when it is ...
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How to put progress bar around the edge of the screen in Wear OS
guys I am trying to make my progress bar around the edge of the screen but it's not happening even tho i put both width and height to match_parent still it's sitting in the centre not on the edges.
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Android : MainActivity doesn't receive update from Worker
I have an Android Worker receiving AMQP messages from a broker and I want the worker to send an update to the main activity each time a message is received (to update the UI).
I am using the ...
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How to interprete the data from Pixel watch 2 EDA sensor?
I recently tried the Pixel Watch 2 because of its various health-related sensors, including EDA (Electrodermal Activity) sensor. I was able to register and receive events from the sensor, but I'm not ...
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Continuous sampling of heart rate data on Wear OS
So I have been trying to collect and measure heart rate data from an android smartwatch (Wear OS 4), the problem is that I need the sampling to be somewhat constant, but when the smartwatch goes to ...
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How do I detect if battery saver is enabled on wear-os? (sdk 33/34)
I am trying to change the behavior of my wear os app programmatically based on whether or not battery saver is enabled.
I have tried getting the power system service and checking the isPowerSaveMode ...
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WearOS hidden permission "usage access" (how to permit?)
in my jetpack compose wear app I'm trying to get the usage time of the user. I know that I have to <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS" tools:ignore=&...
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Crash because of PendingIntent for Complication in Wear OS
I've been trying to find the error myself for two days now, but so far I haven't been able to find one. The following in advance. There are two classes: the BroadcastReceiver and the ProviderService. ...
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Preventing App from Being Put to Sleep in Wear OS 4
In Wear OS 4, a new feature was introduced to put apps into sleep mode while they run in the background. There's a list in Settings -> Battery -> Sleeping apps, with the apps that will be put to ...
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Bluetooth-LE severe failure after the latest OS update in Galaxy Watch 5 models
I’m a developer of an app for Wear OS which utilizes Bluetooth-LE. Since the latest Wear OS update (Wear OS 4.0, One UI 5.0), it started failing for numerous users of mine with Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 ...
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Wear os 4.0 (One UI 5.0) doesn't receive messages from GoogleApiClient
I've created a couple of apps that can communicate with the watch using GoogleApiClient. It worked perfectly fine, but one day ago, every app I used this interface stopped receiving messages from the ...
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Disable Back Button Samsung Smatwatch
I am developing an app that always works in the foreground for smartwatches. I use a samsung watch, it has two buttons (back and home)and i can't manage to deactivate them by code, so that i can't act ...
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Zip File Corrupted App created by Android Studio
I have develop an app for a smartwatch (wearOs) that creates a zip. The app writes data on a Txt, and when it finishes doing the tasks it has to do, it compresses the Txt creating a Zip.
In most of ...
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How to retrieve the health data from samsung watch via mobile application?
I have to work on a task in which i have to retrieve the health data from the samsung watch, but i don't know from where i can start. I have a lot of questions;
Can i directly fetch the data from the ...
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When calling an activity from a watch face, the watch face continues to run in the emulator, but stops in a physical watch. Why?
I am developing a watch face. In the emulator, I can call a new transparent activity and the watch face continues to execute. But in a physical watch with Wear OS (the Galaxy Watch4), the execution ...
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Issue found: Missing app icon in splash screen
Google playstore suddenly rejects App Update due to a supposedly missing splash screen icon.
Issue found: Missing app icon in splash screen
Your app does not show a 48x48dp app icon on a black ...
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Android/Wear OS - testing wrist flick gestures on android studio avd emulator
i'm trying to figure out how to test the flick wrist out and flick wrist in gestures in android studio's avd.
Currently these simulated real world actions are supported on the emulator:
And from ...
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Android 13 READ Files in Smartwatch
I am developing an application for a Wear OS system that creates a txt file and saves it in a certain folder.
My problem is that I have changed my watch and now the one I'm using has Android 13 API 33 ...
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WearableListenerService does not invoke Splash Screen
Per requirement WO-V15 in Wear OS App Quality guidelines, and as a requirement to get published by the PlayStore, Wear OS apps now need to integrate with splash screen. Following instructions for ...
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How to start out Watchface development with missing template on Android Studio
I freshly installed Android Studio and wanted to follow these docs: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/service#create-project in there it talks about a template, but it ...
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How do I specify the icon Android Wear uses on the watch face shortcut?
I'm new to Android and Wear OS dev. Got an app up and running well pretty quickly; it launches and runs fine. The "fx" icon shown in the full round icon in the app display (yellow arrow) is ...
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Watch Face Format XML: Complication slot has only the "Empty" option
When creating a watch face with the Watch Face Format XML, the complication has only the "Empty" slot option available on the Watch app on the mobile phone. On the smartwatch, all available ...
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Using Watch Face Format, how can I add a customizable complication to my watch face?
I am trying to add a complication to my watch face using Watch Face Format. I am following the guide at https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/wff/complication/complication, however the ...
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Listing files on wear os 4 (android 13)
I'm really having a hard time on this; I need to list all files/folders from the watch internal storage...
On wear os 3, I simply use a .listFiles() from io.File and thats it. On wear os 4 it doesnt ...
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Adapt Text to WearOS Circular Screen with Android Compose
I'm using Android Compose to develop a wearOS app. On my pixel watch, which have a rounded screen, I don't succeed in displaying the text correctly without it to be cropped.
My code is the following :
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Use seekbar on Wear OS without dismissing the frame
The problem
I am developing an IoT application for Wear OS, and I would like to set the brightness of a light with a seekbar. However, moving the seekbar from left to right causes the Fragment to ...
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Wear OS 4.0: Watchface corrupted after App close
So my app has a watchface and some activities. I start my Mainactivity after i tap on the watchface and if the user is done what he wanted to do, the Mainactivity is closed by calling finish()
After ...
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Compose Wear OS Navigation & Rotary Input
I'm not able to get Rotary Input working on Wear OS compose app when I use navigation between two Scaffold composables with ScalingLazyColumns.
I'm using simple navigation to navigate between two ...
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Best practice for compose Wear OS App navigation
I've developed a Wear OS app some time ago with Android Studio using the view system. I'm now looking into compose and it's giving me some challenges.
First I'm looking at the navigation in the App. ...
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Does Wear OS supports Android enterprise?
Does Wear OS supports Android enterprise?
I want to develop device management capabilities for Wear OS smart watches?
How can it be implemented?
Tried to enroll to Android EMM but it didn't work ...
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How to ask the user for Play Store app review on Wear OS?
We have developed an app on Wear OS which is linked to our Android app.
However, this Wear OS app can work standalone and Wear OS Play Store user reviews are separate from Android Play Store user ...