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An API for building (interactive) watch faces for the Wear OS platform.

The watch face API is part of the Wearable Support Library. Watch faces can be rendered on a Canvas or using OpenGL ES 2.0. The official developer documentation can be found here and includes basic setup instructions and sample code.

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How to hide status icons completely on watch face

I am creating a watch face. This watch face contains also battery, charging and connectivity indicators. Now I want the system icons to be hidden, so they don't interfere with watch face indicators when the device is charging or disconnected from…
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How do you debug Android's watchface?

For some reason, I can't seem to output anything in Logcat for the watchface example that you can pull from Github's repo. I've enabled the development features in the watch emulator. I have the latest Android Studio. When I start a brand new…
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Android Wear Watchface and the WakeLock

I'm developing a watchface for Android Wear using the WatchFace API (extending CanvasWatchFaceService). I've used the code from here to build a ticker that run code every second. I'm experiencing the following problem. Every now and then the service…
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Wear OS Watch Face Transition Animation

Stock Samsung watch faces that come with Watch 6 have this wonderful animations that are displayed when user activates/switches to the face from the face selection screen. The hands of the clock transition from the position that is fixed in the…
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WearOS: tap action for watch face complication

I want to create watch face complication which will use data from my data provider project. I want to display it in a widget on the Watch Face in a way, so user can see some data from my app on tha Watch Face and then tap on the widget…
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How to get the step counter from Google Fit in a Wear OS Watchface?

I'm trying to develop a Watchface in Kotlin and I'm facing some difficulties in obtaining the number of steps and other data. I'm really a beginner in this subject and in Kotlin, so please be kind c: I'm trying to retrieve this data from the Google…
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AnimationDrawable not animating on Watch Face

I'm trying to add an animation to a watch face that I'm building in Android Studio and I'm facing some issues. I'm totally new to this type of programming so if I say something dumb please correct me. First, I learned how to draw a layout in the…
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Adding background image using Watch Face library (Wear OS)

Last month Google / Jetpack released the stable version of the Watch Face library (blog post). It is stated that: The androidx.wear.watchface package is the new recommended library for developing WearOS watch faces. On GitHub there is a demo watch…
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How do i make this kind of menu for my wear os watchface?

I'm trying to create a watch face and trying to implement customizability. So when I saw a "Styles" option on the Elements Digital I found this as a perfect implementation. Since I down own a Wear OS watch yet, IDK how people make their watch faces…
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Run Wear OS watch face as widget on phone

Abstract I am a Wear OS watch face developer with few existing faces. I would like to make them available as widgets on the phone. Ideally, I would like to package the widget with the existing face to give more value to users. They should be able to…
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Android watch face doesn't fulfill Google app quality

The story goes like this: Recently I tried to make an Android watch face app. I made the watch module and added a blank mobile module so it could be installed on a smartphone without the need of smartwatch connected to it (Watch module would be…
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How to simulate an analog stop watch in Android Watch Face?

I'm developing a realistic chronograph watch with Android Wear OS. I already have a seconds hand watch working well, and a stoped chronograph hand. When I tap on the watch, I want my chronograph hand start from zero, but it is starting from the…
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Typing animation on Android Wear

I've been racking my brain now for a while trying to figure out away to get a typing animation on a watchface. What I'm struggling to do is get it to work as it needs to be printed on a canvas and as it doesn't extend activity some of the standard…
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Problems Finding Center of Android Wear Watchface

I have looked all over, but nothing has worked. Every time I try finding the center of the screen for my watch face, it always end up slightly higher than the center, and to the far right of the screen (This is different than the problem that the…
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Using onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState with wallpaper service? (Watchface)

Im in need of some help. Secondary Activity package archtectsproductions.scriptpyandroidwearwatchface; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.res.Resources; import android.os.Bundle; import…
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