Questions tagged [android-wear-2.0]

Second generation of Google's operating system for smart wearable devices, based on the Android platform.

Android Wear 2.0 is the second generation of Google's operating system for smart wearable devices like wrist watches. It's an extension of , and was released in Spring 2017.

Notable features include a redesign of the system UI, standalone applications, voice recognition using Google Assistant, the addition of watch face complications, and updates to Google Fit.

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Uploading a wear 2.0 android app

The android dev docs state: Distribution to Wear 1.x and 2.0 watches If you are already distributing your app to Wear 1.x watches, follow these steps: Provide a Wear 2.0 (standalone) version of your watch APK that can be made available in the…
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How to create Circular view on android wear?

How can I create circular list for round watch as in android wear 2.0 ?. Like this: Circular list is seen in android wear app launcher.
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Bug in default behavior of ScalingLazyColumn (Jetpack Compose Wear OS)

I'm using ScalingLazyColumn with a very long Text inside as follows: @Preview(device = Devices.WEAR_OS_SMALL_ROUND, showSystemUi = true) @Composable fun Test(modifier: Modifier = Modifier) { val scalingLazyState = remember {…
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Android wear OS retrieving stepcounter in background

I am trying to retrieve step counts from a smartwatch and push it to API. I was able to retrieve and push the data when I open the app. But once it is not activated, then it will not send any data. I am trying to use the android service to run the…
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How to add Rotary Input into ScrollView in Android Wear

I am working on an android wear app, I already added rotary input to recyclerview using rcView.requestFocus(),but it doesn't work with NestedScrollview so I want to know how to add the rotary input listener to NestedScrollview. Here is what I have…
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How to open Android Wear keyboard programmatically?

So I have a question of how to open the keyboard that shows when the user clicks in an EditText. I already found a way to open the speech recognizer using: val intent = Intent(RecognizerIntent.ACTION_RECOGNIZE_SPEECH) …
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Wear OS Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) not connecting to other device

I'm working on a Wear OS app that connects to an BLE device. On older Wear OS versions it worked fine. The app could create a connection to the device by it self (the user only needed to confirm the connection). Now on a newer Wear OS version it…
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Making a direct API call from WearOS watch over WiFi without phone connectivity

I am not Android/WearOS savvy so apologize in advance to those who are eager to push down arrow button. I am looking to put together a proof of concept that would read sensor data from Android/WearOS watch and send it to an Azure API EndPoint over…
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How do I get my own node_id for dataclient.getDataItem(Uri)?

In my project a wearos app communicates with a handheld mobile app using dataitems. My wearOS app sends data by placing and changing a data item in the data layer. Before placing the item I want to load/get the item before potentially overwriting…
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Updating more Frequently in Ambient Mode not working - Android Wear / WearOS

I'm currently developing an app with support for ambient mjode. That's nothing difficult. Now, my app has two timers that need to Update every second. So I went for the Google Documentation here. I've tried it multiple times, I've checked every line…
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Securing Firebase realtime database granting access to Android wear devices

I have a firebase realtime database that is accessed mostly by Android Wear devices running a standalone application. As of today, Android Wear devices do not support Firebase Authentication. Yet Firebase keeps pushing me emails telling that my…
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Send sensor data from Wear OS to laptop in realtime

I'm creating an application to send accelerometer and gyroscope data from a Gear Live to a laptop. The two devices are on the same Wi-Fi network. I implemented a socket listener on the wearable, and a server on the laptop. The socket listener is…
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Android Wear - Long Running App loses state

I have an Android Wear (WearOS) app that after running for a very long period of time ( say 1 hour plus ) sometimes loses its state. By losing its state I mean after a long time running the app resumes in "State A" from its notification. State A:…
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NFC Reader mode on Android Wear

I would like create one Android Wear app to interact with ISO14443 contactless card via NFC, we tried different Android Wear watches with NFC and support Android Pay (HCE), but we always got UnsupportedOperationException like mentioned in this…
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Remove WearableRecyclerView extra top space

My Watchface Config activity has just a WearableRecyclerView with settings. When I run the activity in Wear Emulator, there seem to be a lot of extra space at the top. Unable to figure out how to remove it. Activity Code
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