I have a widget which is being serviced by a Service in my code. Now when the application is forced stopped the service also stops.
So now there is no one to update the widget and widget is acting like a zombie.
Now If I start the application activity the widget cannot be revived as I do not have the Id of the widget.
What is the best way to handle such situations?
Make another background service to keep the service running. Better to put it as a persistent notification though I'm not sure why you would want to have your app force closed.
Try this to get the id: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5161121/find-home-screen-widget-id
Available on Google Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.preiss.swapps.link
SWApp Link is intended for use with Smartwatches running Android OS.
Some compatible Smartwatches:
Samsung Gear 1 (with android ROM), Omate TS, AI Watch, Neptune Pine, Inwatch Z, AW-414, AW-420, Callisto 100.
Features:
Call Notifications:
• Displays the caller’s photo.
• Option to take the call, reject the call, or reply via SMS (composed on the watch and sent through the phone.)
• During call: options to end the call, toggle mute, and toggle the loudspeaker.
SMS Notifications:
• Displays the SMS text and contact photo.
• Option to reply via SMS.
App Notifications:
• Displays notifications, from the apps of your choice, on the watch.
• Fully optimized notifications for specific apps (with more coming), including:
• Email - Notifications now display the email’s content instead of just displaying “[number of] New Emails”.
• Hangouts - Notifications now display the message content instead of just displaying “[number of] New Notification(s) from [name]”.
• WhatsApp - Notifications now display the full message content, even within groups, including the message’s text and image.
• Customizable notification layouts: choice of colors for the message text and the message background, option to automatically resize the message text based on its length, and more.
Full notification management:
• Browse through all the previous notifications (SMS and app), with the option to display the most recent ones first or the oldest ones first, search through them by text, and more.
Powerful clock engine which can be set as the watch's lockscreen. Many exclusive features, including:
• Both Analog and Digital watch faces.
• Smooth seconds hand with dynamic shadow.
• Unread notification indicator.
• Battery, 3G, and Wi-Fi indicators for both the watch AND the phone (with options to display the indicators side by side, or toggle between them by tapping on them.)
• On Screen Display (OSD) Modules including a stopwatch, timer, day timer, second time, date, next alarm info and more (the OSD is shown/hidden by tapping on the clock.)
• Option to choose the Font Color with the color picker.
• Choice of backgrounds.
• Choice of date formats (Mon. 20 June / 20-06 / 06-20 ...).
• Choice of hour formats (12H / 24H).
• Complex animations.
Call Log Sync: Displays the phone’s call log with the option to place a call or send an SMS to anyone on it.
Remote Call: Remotely place a call to one of your contacts, favorites or recently used numbers, or dial a number to call remotely.
Remote SMS: Remotely send an SMS to one of your contacts, favorites or recently used numbers, or input a number to SMS remotely.
Remote App Launch: Remotely launch apps on the phone.
Remote Clipboard: Send content from the phone to the watch’s clipboard.
Remote Media Control: Remotely control the phone’s media player from the watch and see track info.
Find My Phone: Remotely set off the phone’s or watch’s ringer.
Remote Battery info: Displays the remote device’s battery level (with a low battery notification option.)
Remote Lock: Remotely lock the phone from the watch (in case of loss, for example.)
BT Virtual Leash: Automatically lock the phone and display a notification on the watch if the BT connection is lost.
Remote GPS Location: Display the phone’s GPS coordinates on the watch.
Megaphone: Establishes a phone call between both devices and puts the remote on speaker (establishes a communication with people near the remote device, sim watches only.)
Microphone: Establishes a phone call between both devices (enables you to hear what's happening around the remote device, sim watches only.)
Connection methods:
Direct Bluetooth Connection
Push Notification - Uses an Internet connection to communicate between the devices.
SMS - Sends and intercepts SMSs to communicate between the devices.
Does it works with smartq z watch
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apitruia1 said:
Does it works with smartq z watch
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does it run on Android ?
Apk file for testing?
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It's on play store but not compatible with smartQ z1Watch
*ClockFace Selection*
*SWApp Link dev update 0.935b*
You can now choose the clockface (from settings).
The clocks in the list are real clock showing the actual time
I have more clocks to add.
Credits to +Daniel Ortiz and +Roy King for those first clockfaces.
If you want your own clockfaces added to the app, send me your files:
https://plus.google.com/101149847908870195450/posts/jfFJts5bQDW
There is a slight bug: when you choose a new clock and come back from the settings the clock take some seconds to update. I will fix this, but i'm taking my GF to the cinema and wanted to send you this update before i come back.
call acceptance and sending through dialpad
is it possible to add a feature in this app, to recieve calls and send calls through the dialpad without a sim card and phone having to be next to you kinda like the samsung gear does,because this app would be better than the gear manager in many ways(i love this app great job)that would be great thanks.
*Voice Control*
*SWApp Link dev update 0.935*
You can now enable *Voice Control*
When the app is listening the red mic icon will be displayed. The Android SpeechRecognizer is very unstable. when it crashes the icon disappear, if it's the case wait until it come back.
The listening is only active when the app is displayed, therefore there shouldn't be any problem with battery.
The implementation in only partial so far.
Key words on the main screen or clock screen:
Call : Remote Call
Text: Remote SMS
Play: Media player control
Find: Find my phone
Lock: Remote Lock
Location: Get GPS Location
Setting : Settings
Clock : Display the analog clock
Stop: Stop Listening
Key words on incoming notification: (not for call or sms notification so far)
Dismiss
Local : open app on local device
Remote : open app on remote device
Stop: Stop Listening
*Stay tuned, a LOT more to come...*
*Shake it !!*
*SWApp Link dev update 0.936*
* On main screen and clockface: shake to toggle Voice Control On/Off (to be enabled in settings)
* On Notification, Shake to Dismiss
I will add more implementations in the app, like in media player control.
*Dual Time Clock*
*SWApp Link dev update 0.936a*
You can choose the time delta in settings.
*Smooth Second Hand*
*SWApp Link dev update 0.936b*
Option to get a smooth second hand instead of just a movement each second.
Some bugs fix.
*Notification Auto dismiss, Settings menu reorganized*
*SWApp Link dev update 0.94*
New option to auto dismiss notifications with custom delay.
Full reorganization of settings menu
(Call Forwarding menu has been added to general settings)
(Call and SMS notification settings has been added to "Notifications" setttings)
cyrilp said:
does it run on Android ?
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yes ,it runs android 4.4 but the google play shows the app incompatible for SmartQ Z1 , only sideload testing then?
Clocks with animated background are coming !
I have managed to make clocks with animated background !
The first below was just a proof of concept.
https://plus.google.com/101149847908870195450/posts/36dzRsFNKff
This one has been sent by AI Watch
https://plus.google.com/104384865569955280111/posts/D4avGNC3fv6
I hope somebody will be able to make one with animated gears like on a real watch !
Gmobilize said:
yes ,it runs android 4.4 but the google play shows the app incompatible for SmartQ Z1 , only sideload testing then?
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Just put it on my smartq watch. And its working without problems.
Can start phonecalls from wat watch.
Can control music player.
Notifications oké.
SMS is working.
Great work.
Thanks.
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bfikkert said:
Just put it on my smartq watch. And its working without problems.
Can start phonecalls from wat watch.
Can control music player.
Notifications oké.
SMS is working.
Great work.
Thanks.
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that's great news ! i must find a way so that it gets available on play store for the Smartq !
[Q UOTE=cyrilp;52692627]that's great news ! i must find a way so that it gets available on play store for the Smartq ![/QUOTE]
For MiPS cpu & SDK 19?
*HUGE update*
*SWApp Link dev update 0.936c*
*Please go in settings menu to choose your communication type, it has been changed since last version*
I have completely rewritten the communication engine:
Better Stability
Possibility to enable independently each Communication type (only the first instruction is taken into account)
Keep Alive and Status check for Push Type (local and linked names are red or green following their status)
Option to sync Connection type: when a connection type is enabled/disabled on a device it’s synchronized on the other (if there is an active connection)
....
Other:
Many new languages (Spanish, Finnish, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese, Greek and Dutch)
Settings menu can now be displayed with a white or black background, and the font size can be adjusted (small, normal, big).
Many Bugs fixed
...
*!!! Push Communication is having problems!!!*
We have grown too fast and reached the quotas on Google app Engine
I have sent a request to google to higher my quotas but until it's done you might encounter problem with the push communication.
I'll let you know when i have news.
*OutGoing Calls Notification and Auto dismiss with end of call*
*SWApp Link dev update 0.96f*
There is now a notification for Outgoing calls too, which will allow you to hang up from the watch.
Incoming and Outgoing calls notification are now automatically dismissed at the end of the call.
PS: Push keep alive min delay as been brought to 5 min as i'm having problems with the Quota on google app engine. I'll see if i can lower it later.
*SWApp Link as LockScreen and notifications dismiss LockScreen*
*SWApp Link dev update 0.96g*
You can now use SWApp Link as your LockScreen: to be enabled in the settings.
Incoming notifications now turn the screen On AND dismiss the lockscreen.
(Depending on the locksreen you use you might need to disable it first.)
Is there an app similar to "notification center" on pebble, where I can force the watch to vibrate when I get a notification from certain applications?
For some reason I just can't get certain apps to vibrate (and I just see the notification, which is no good because I just miss it).
I don't know if those apps are poorly written or set wrong or what.
Other apps vibrate - so it's not a general problem. I shouldn't have to be screwing around with so many settings like this.
I'm fairly happy with my Moto 360, but missing important notifications is a dealbreaker, and I might be forced to go back to my Pebble.
Anyone know of an app that can do this? I don't mind paying for one.
- Frank
Found one that worked: Augmented SmartWatch Pro.
It seems that wechat doesn't send a "vibrate notification" so it breaks android wear.
Instead it just does a normal app vibration.
Augmented works similar to "Pebble notifier" where it sends a vibrate notification to Android wear.
*** UPDATE *** Alarm Clock Xtreme has finally been updated. So try it at your own risk.
As some of you may or may not be aware, Android 6 Marshmallow now includes the "Doze" feature which puts the phone into deep sleep when not being used and unplugged. Right now at this point, the alarm app I use, Alarm Clock Extreme (I have the paid version), is not working properly. It isn't waking the phone like it's supposed to.
In doing some research, I see that alarms are supposed to call new parameters to be able to bypass "Doze", which will wake up the phone and activate the alarm.
Right now what happens is Alarm Clock Extreme doesn't wake the phone when it's unplugged and left idle all night. When I wake up to (now) another alarm for the time being, and then manually wake up my phone, only then does Alarm Clock Extreme start going off.
This is a serious issue. Most people wake up to their phones nowadays. Luckily I still have an old alarm clock that I use as backup. Four days in a row now Alarm Clock Extreme failed to produce an alarm.
I tried disabling "Doze" for Alarm Clock Extreme (which you can do in Battery Settings), but that had no effect and didn't produce an alarm.
I also went to go install another alarm from the Play Store, but other alarms that I looked at have not fixed the issue yet either according to reviews.
I have since rolled my phone back to Android 5.1.1 and Alarm Clock Extreme is working properly again.
So, if you're having problems with your alarm clock not going off on Android 6, that is why.
Or use the stock clocks alarm function. As a built-in system app it works. It might not be as fancy as some custom alarm apps but it also hasn't failed me a single time.
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Or use the stock clocks alarm function. As a built-in system app it works. It might not be as fancy as some custom alarm apps but it also hasn't failed me a single time.
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Thanks for the reply. What is the name of the system app in case it's not included in the ROM I'm using?
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Thanks for the reply. What is the name of the system app in case it's not included in the ROM I'm using?
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DeskClock. And it should be embedded in the rom or gapps you use. If you install it from Play Store it will be installed to the /data partition and then it suffers from the same problem as third party clocks. It needs to be a system app.
akselic said:
DeskClock. And it should be embedded in the rom or gapps you use. If you install it from Play Store it will be installed to the /data partition and then it suffers from the same problem as third party clocks. It needs to be a system app.
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Thank you. Hopefully this will help out others until the apps are updated. I'm kind of surprised apps aren't already updated as long as MM has been out and available to developers.
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Thank you. Hopefully this will help out others until the apps are updated. I'm kind of surprised apps aren't already updated as long as MM has been out and available to developers.
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Actually I wonder if it would help to use the Titanium Backup function of "convert to system app" for the third party alarm apps. Could be worth trying.
The easiest way we found to counter this is just to plug the device in and let it charge over night. Doze is disabled when in charge mode.
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Actually I wonder if it would help to use the Titanium Backup function of "convert to system app" for the third party alarm apps. Could be worth trying.
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I think that will only work if the app has been updated with the newer calls to bypass Doze. Still worth a try. I'll do some testing this weekend.
zelendel said:
The easiest way we found to counter this is just to plug the device in and let it charge over night. Doze is disabled when in charge mode.
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I can usually use my phone for 2 days before charging most of the time. Even more so on Marshmallow since Doze definitely saves battery. Always thought it not so good on the battery to charge your phone every day if it doesn't need to be charged.
But that is an idea also. I hate being back on 5.1.1 already since MM runs so much better on our Nexus 6.
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I can usually use my phone for 2 days before charging most of the time. Even more so on Marshmallow since Doze definitely saves battery. Always thought it not so good on the battery to charge your phone every day if it doesn't need to be charged.
But that is an idea also. I hate being back on 5.1.1 already since MM runs so much better on our Nexus 6.
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I have never had an issue with doing that. Have been charging at night for over a decade. Never saw a issue with battery. I could never last 2 days with my battery. Signal is terrible here.
launch day nexus 6 on the first wave of orders from the google store ('memba when we had scripts running to alert when the page showed "in stock"? ) and i always keep the phone on its tylt wireless charger. the battery tells the charger when to stop charging and when to start...
anyway, stock never rooted and i use the in built alarm and that works beautifully.
I use the system clock for alarm and it has worked without issues on 6.0.1. Moreover, it let's me put my phone into DND until the alarm goes off...
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As mentioned here, since android 6 marshmallow developers need to use a specific function for alarm clocks.
The alarm clock i developed works well on android 6 just like the native alarm clock only that my alarm clock has some extra features:
* A math question to dismiss in case you use to dismiss while you are sleeping. You can also choose the difficulty level of the math question.
* Set unlimited number of alarms (great for heavy sleepers who wants few alerts in a row to make sure they wake up).
* Set alarms in advance for the entire week.
* Use your own personal tone– A music file from the device or a ringtone from the android OS.
And much more
If you want to download it search in the google play "Simple alarm clock marshmallow" and download the alarm
clock of SimpleUXApss or SUXA (Colorful logo with smiling clock ).
I will be happy to here what do you think
I use timely & haven't had an issue even during the developer previews.
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Thanks for the reply. What is the name of the system app in case it's not included in the ROM I'm using?
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DeskClock. And it should be embedded in the rom or gapps you use. If you install it from Play Store it will be installed to the /data partition and then it suffers from the same problem as third party clocks. It needs to be a system app.
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In my app drawer, it shows as "clock"
Alarm Clock Extreme was misbehaving for me in that , when on a Qi pad, Pandora ( my selected alarm is start Pandora ) would not start until I took Pandora off Doze. Now it works, even though Alarm Clock Extreme is still on Doze.
Currently I'm using the stock alarm clock until Alarm Clock Extreme is updated. I've been in contact with the devs and they assure that they are working on the problem as quickly as possible.
SuxaDeveloper said:
As mentioned here, since android 6 marshmallow developers need to use a specific function for alarm clocks.
The alarm clock i developed works well on android 6 just like the native alarm clock only that my alarm clock has some extra features:
* A math question to dismiss in case you use to dismiss while you are sleeping. You can also choose the difficulty level of the math question.
* Set unlimited number of alarms (great for heavy sleepers who wants few alerts in a row to make sure they wake up).
* Set alarms in advance for the entire week.
* Use your own personal tone– A music file from the device or a ringtone from the android OS.
And much more
If you want to download it search in the google play "Simple alarm clock marshmallow" and download the alarm
clock of SimpleUXApss or SUXA (Colorful logo with smiling clock ).
I will be happy to here what do you think
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exactly what i was looking for! two small issues:
1. the alarm creation goes with 5 minutes gaps. can you make an option to set it to a specific time?
2. auto dismiss (without snooze) is one of the most importnat features to me. can you add an option to auto dismiss alarm after 5-15 seconds?
thanks
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there's another small issue where the clock icon appears twice in notification bar.
ag43 said:
exactly what i was looking for! two small issues:
1. the alarm creation goes with 5 minutes gaps. can you make an option to set it to a specific time?
2. auto dismiss (without snooze) is one of the most importnat features to me. can you add an option to auto dismiss alarm after 5-15 seconds?
thanks
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there's another small issue where the clock icon appears twice in notification bar.
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Thanks. I appreciate that.
About the 5 minutes gap. It's because 99.9% of the users sets the alarm to a minute value which divided by 5 like
7:00, 8:15, 9:30... and not to 6:03, 7:02, 8:26... So why bothering them. Maybe in the future i will let users to decide about it
but for now i have bigger improvements i want to implement so it might take some time.
Crashes for me
I downloaded your app on the S7 Edge and it crashes every time I try to save an alarm.