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How to handle tap events for an interactive watch faces with androidx.wear?

What is the correct way of handling tap events with the new androidx.wear.watchface libraries? I was doing this with the now deprecated android.support:wearable libraries without any problem with Java (using onTapCommand). Now, everything seems to…
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Newest update (9 Feb 2022) by Samsung for the Galaxy Watch4 is crashing my watch face - what to do?

Yesterday Samsung published an update for the Galaxy Watch4. Since then I am being flooded by users' emails saying that my watch face is crashing and is unusable. The crash happens when the watch switches between normal and ambient mode. According…
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Cannot create Digital watch face in Android Studio 3.5

I am running Android Studio 3.5 on Windows 10. I want to create a new Wear OS Digital watch face. I select "Start a new Android Studio project", "Wear OS", "Watch Face", Next, and fill in all the fields. There used to be a drop down for Analog or…
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Unread notification count complication in Android Wear 2

I'm developing a series of Android Wear 2 watch faces and apparently I've found a problem I cannot solve. In the images you can see two simple watch faces from Google (I'm sorry I cannot embed images, yet). The first one is from the Google…
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Android wear watchface rotation leaves trail

I'm programming a watchface, I put a rotating wheel on the background, but it leaves a strange trail where it has been before and this trail is not deleted. This trail is left only on transparent background area. Demonstration: final float angle…
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Burn in protection for android wear

Recently I started developing on android wear. I read all about low ambient mode and burn in protection on the design specs given by Google. For the low bit ambient mode we need to disable antialiasing and use no colors. But do we need to take any…
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Uploading my designed watch face to a watch using a companion app

I have designed a watch face using Samsung Watch Face Studio. The output is a package (.apk file). When I directly upload it to the Google Store, its not easily installed by my customers. I have seen most of other developers having a companion app…
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Ongoing notification on wear os watchface

I have an app that has an ongoing notification. Is there any way to present that specific notification on the wear os smartwatch watchface or in any other way?
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WearOS WatchFaceKotlin new AndroidX libraries

I had a look at the new way of creating watchfaces for Wear OS. https://github.com/android/wear-os-samples/tree/main/WatchFaceKotlin In my case I do not know beforehand how many complications a watch face will have, in the documentation here it says…
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Watch app icon in standard Complications not showing

Hi developed and watchkit app and it works fine. The app icon also show in settings and on the watch apps. Thats fine, my only problem is that it isnt shown in the screenshot and on the clock in the watchface. There are just the 2 lines marked in…
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With SCREEN_BRIGHT_WAKE_LOCK deprecated, how can I keep the screen on in Wear OS?

For my Wear OS watch face project, I was using the flag SCREEN_BRIGHT_WAKE_LOCK to acquire a wakelock that keeps the screen fully on for one minute (triggered by the user as needed). This flag has been deprecated. The flag PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK is still…
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WearOS watch face development - when should I use OpenGL (GLES)?

I was using OpengGL (Gles2WatchFaceService.engine) for my Wear-OS watch-face projects and it was working great for years. Recently however, this engine got deprecated and therefore, before I recode all my graphics, I am reevaluating if OpenGL is…
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Gles2WatchFaceService deprecated? What now?

For my Wear OS watch face project, I am using Gles2WatchFaceService so the watch face has smooth OpenGL animation when needed. I just updated in build.gradle the following dependency: implementation 'com.google.android.support:wearable:2.9.0' The…
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How to restart Watch Face service programmatically in WearOS?

My WearOS application contains CanvasWatchFaceService, which doesn't restart after, for example, changing permission settings or after I rebuild and reinstalled and launched the app. Unfortunately I can restart it only manually (by long press on a…
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How do i get api for MI Band 6 watch faces?

I want to create an application that will display collection of all mi band 6 watch faces available to download.I saw some of the application on google playstore that already had these feature .I googled on how they are doing it but found nothing…
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