Category: WearOS (watch)
Launcher/watch face on Wear OS (was Android Wear)
Advanced tip: Full color inactive mode
On LCD screen watches you can set the ambient mode look the same as the active watch face
License issues
Google Play Store on the watch prompts you to purchase again? Here is what you can do
How to show date on the watch face
There are 2 ways to add information to the watch face:
1) assign live info to any bubble
2) add standard watch face complication
NUOVA NOTIFICA ANDROID 8.0:
“App Bubble Cloud mostrata sopra altre app”
→ Questo può essere rimosso!
НОВЫЙ ANDROID 8.0 УВЕДОМЛЕНИЕ:
«Bubble Cloud поверх других приложений» → Он может быть удален!
The Android Wear 1.5 paradox
Please report bugs, it improves the experience thousands of others!
ENABLING THE SECONDS HAND
This week’s free cartoony 1-click theme did not include a seconds hand, so it was disabled
Email watch / wear settings (to help reproduce issues)
You can send me a backup file of your settings to help me reproduce issues that you might experience with your specific configuration
Awesome news
Awesome news: Google acknowledged the Google Assistant bug and they already fixed it internally. The next update to Google Assistant will supposedly include the fix. Until then we need to put up with the stuck picker.
v9.03beta → Ring mode bubble permission request
Starting with Android Marshmallow, apps need to get permission to control Do-not-disturb mode on the phone. Prompt for permission in Wear Cloud Editor, or when bubble is first used
BAD NEWS
BAD NEWS: The newest update to Wear OS / Google Assistant introduced this disambiguation screen, which makes button much less useful 🙁
ANDROID WEAR 2.8: UNREAD COUNT BROKEN
ANDROID WEAR 2.8: UNREAD COUNT BROKEN
Sony SmartWatch compatibility
I have many users still using SmartWatch 3. It should work well. The SW2 was created before Google released Android Wear, hence the SW2 runs a proprietary system which prevents it to be compatible 🙁
Crash when trying to add phone apps to your watch?
if you run into this bug, you are welcome to update to v8.51beta