Hello, I know I'm posting here, but I just can't figure out which of the smartwatches on the market have the technical capabilities and/or hacks to be able to run full APKs such as AnkiDroid. It would be the primary function of my watch, to learn on the go.
I've seen that the original samsung gear could run games, but other than that I can't find anything else.
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The Wear SDK doesn't appear to have anything similar to the Pebblekit JS Framework. Does this mean that any watch app that wants to access the internet (such as a simple weather app) will need a dedicated companion phone app? Or am I missing something?
The Wear emulator technically looks like Android, but on a small screen, and with a different "launcher".
You can run many existing Android apps on it. I tried one of mine, and it worked, more or less, but the UI was squished as would be expected.
This is why it's called "Android Wear". It's just an Android variant. There may be some "normal" Android APIs it won't support, and there will be watch specific APIs I'm sure.
IMO, it makes sense and is smart of Google to do this. I don't want to deal with 10 different smartwatch OS's.
NOW is the time for a bigger, richer smartwatch OS, because it's now possible to put enough ARM compute power in a watch sized device.
I presume that Google Play will support watch apps at some point. And I'm looking forward to seeing custom watch ROMs. I hope there won't be too much locking down of devices, or at least a Nexus watch or 2 that can be unlocked.
I agree with all of your comments, but I also think the cool thing about pebble is that I can write a watch app that will, for example, get weather from a JSON source on the internet without requiring the user to install another phone app. I don't think you can do that with Wear.
So, I'm looking for a new Smart Watch, and decided to also check the apps. I didn't end up finding any real data on what works with whatand where to get them, so here we are. I started with just some notes, but I decided that maybe some other people could help and use it as well.
So if you happen to have a cheap chinese smartwatch, could you pop in to this list and add what watch you use with what app.
If you've tried a watch with some app and know it doesn't work, that would be swell too.
The idea here is to list compatibility for most, if not all, non-android wear smart watches and the apps floating around.
Hopefully, it will end up being useful so you can test the app before you buy your watch, or if you get fed up with the app it came with, see if there are alternatives.
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Good evening - I'm a long time lurker at XDA and have gleaned a lot of useful information from this site, so thanks for that.
I have a client who is looking to build prototype for a device containing only one app, for a very young market, which will be the only app runnable on the device (think a smartwatch tamagotchi) - the priorities are that there's bluetooth, wifi and an accelerometer fully accessible to the app, and that the watch be relatively cheap. Now, while I've been a developer and sysadmin for a number of years, this is my first Android or wearable project, so I wanted to see if anyone had any useful tips on approaches to take, and devices to try for this prototype. (Also, I know the idea of locking down a device like this might be an anathema to people posting here. See this as an academic exercise in what's possible.)
As far as the approach goes, it seems to me I have a few options:
- Get a watch already running Android Wear, develop the app using Google's APIs and see if I can the modify the OS to boot into a single app.
- Get a (probably cheaper) watch which I can then flash with a ROM built by someone else, but will still allow me to access the accelerometer, then lock this down
- As above, but build my own ROM, containing only my app.
As far as devices go, we've had a look at some £20 Chinese wonders with MediaTek MT2502 chips, but I couldn't see how I'd get into them to flash a new ROM and I could't find anyone here using the same model. I've been looking at the MOTOACTV, which I see has many fans, but am also quite happy to consider other (particularly cheaper) alternatives, as long as I'll be able to develop something for them, get to the accelerometer and eventually send data to a server.
Sorry for the long post. Any advice?
Hello, I was just wondering, I've come by some apps that apparently used to be supported but no longer are. Two examples are trip advisor and firefox. I've seen many youtube videos and other relevant forums showing how they work and how good this and that... anyway long story short, I've installed both on my phone but they don't show up on my watch. I know android wear 2.0 is coming and will most likely increase compatibility of all sorts of apps. But I'm still wondering, what happen to these apps? Another example is duo lingo, I don't really want it but it did disappear under the radar... anyone can tell me if I'm the one not installing those proper? Thanks
I'd like to be able to ideally get a full adb shell and install my own apps to record and stream to another machine television programs and save them in my own format.
The stock system seems very unreliable, and Humax don't seem to offer any API or help with user modification.
Is there a thread or forum on this subject of Humax Aura hacking?
In the same boat. Let me know if you find anything