The issue seems to occur only on Samsung devices (e.g. Galaxy Grand, S4, S5, S6, Note 3, Note 4) with Lollipop (5.0, 5.1, 5.1.1). It seems that alarms are scheduled inexact when device is on battery with screen off. If device is charging or has screen on during scheduling alarm the issue will not occur. … Read more
Update for API 23: To determine if the screen is round you can use context.getResources().getConfiguration().isScreenRound() Android reference Or you can use the round and notround resource qualifiers and let the system apply the proper resources but beware that this will not work on devices running API 22 or lower Source Thanks to people who pointed … Read more
Did you ensure that the “applicationId” is the same for both apps, i.e. for the app on the Android Wear and the app on the phone?
In Android Studio 3.0 the documentation for Migrate to the New Plugin says: dependencies { // This is the old method and no longer works for local // library modules: // debugCompile project(path: ‘:foo’, configuration: ‘debug’) // releaseCompile project(path: ‘:foo’, configuration: ‘release’) // Instead, simply use the following to take advantage of // variant-aware dependency … Read more
In order to create an Android Wear emulator you need to follow the instructions below: If your version of Android SDK Tools is lower than 22.6, you must update Under Android 4.4.2, select Android Wear ARM EABI v7a System Image and install it. Under Extras, ensure that you have the latest version of the Android … Read more
Here is a gist that shows how to read the heart rate sensor. The meat of it is: SensorManager mSensorManager = ((SensorManager)getSystemService(SENSOR_SERVICE)); Sensor mHeartRateSensor = mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_HEART_RATE); Sensor mStepCountSensor = mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_STEP_COUNTER); Sensor mStepDetectSensor = mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_STEP_DETECTOR); mSensorManager.registerListener(this, mHeartRateSensor, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL); mSensorManager.registerListener(this, mStepCountSensor, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL); mSensorManager.registerListener(this, mStepDetectSensor, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL); You will also need the following entry in the AndroidManifest.xml <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.BODY_SENSORS” … Read more
To Answer @odiggity specifically, in build.gradle file of your phone app, you should mention the exact name of the wear app folder. If you created the project in Android Studio, then your build.gradle should look like this: wearApp project(‘:wear’) This can happen because of the following reasons: Wear & Mobile app’s “permissions” are not same … Read more
There were already 2 options listed here. They are both valid depending on your use case. I’s like to add a 3rd option however incomplete. Option 1 : find connected nodes using NodeApi The NodeApi class has a method for retrieving connected nodes. With this you’re sure that the user didn’t just had a watch … Read more
Create emulator Nexus 5x with Android version O – api 26 – x86 or Android version Nougat – api 24 – x86 Then click on the 3 dots in the emulator and this will open the extanded window, there click on Google Play + update. And that will update Google Play Services to the latest … Read more
After reading a blog post a few days ago I finally managed to connect an emulated Android-Device to a Wear-Emulator. Here are the different steps that are necessary: Step #1 Create a new emulator that is based on the Google APIs platform, otherwise you won’t be able to run the Android Wear Companion app since … Read more