android wear programmatically bring up app laucher

Question

My Ticwatch E has a single physical button on the left side. I find it very awkward to get to when I'm wearing a long shirt on. Extending your arm to expose the watch face & touch/swipe is much easier. So, I'm trying to add the equivalent of the "physical button press" action to my watchface. These lines of code bring up a selection of apps but, the list is very limited.

                Intent startMain = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
                startMain.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_RESET_TASK_IF_NEEDED);
                if (startMain.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null) {
                    startActivity(startMain);
                }

I'd really like to bring up the native app launcher that's presented when the physical button is pressed. Logcat reports this activity info when I press the physical button.

      I/ActivityManager: START u0 {act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.HOME] flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.google.android.wearable.app/com.google.android.clockwork.home2.activity.HomeActivity2 (has extras)} from uid 1000 on display 0

Any ideas? Oh, and gestures don't work. On the Ticwatch, gestures only allow you to flip between cards. The up/down write motion that (apparently) used to bring up the app launcher doesn't work.

android wear programmatically bring up app laucher

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