Open Source 'Firmware' for MT2502 devices - Other SmartWatches

I've ordered one of the countless cheap Chinese MT2502 based smartwatches, the 'K88H Plus' which looks like it's brand new. I was seduced by the great looks but then reading the various reviews the firmware looks pretty common across many of these devices and pretty bad. So then I set about reading the various MediaTek development docs and it seems like the embedded os, frameworks and API's are going to be out-of-the-box MT LinkIt and the UI and all functionality of the watch is actually controlled by one or more VXP's which the manufacturers are including in their ROMs.
Has anybody looked at this in any detail ? Am I on the right lines here ?
So I'm thinking, I'll write a VXP which is a mini watch OS with watchface, built in continuous step counting and notifications handling to create a better overall experience.
Has anybody else tried this ? Can you use the USB charging cable to remote debug the VXP app i.e. will the watch behave like the Linkit Assist 2502 board ? Thanks, grateful for any pointers.

Did you figure this out? Or got any further? Very curious getting into app development for watches with this type of microcontroller (so not just watch faces). Two minds can do more than one! For as far as I've seen, the MRE 3.0 SDK can actually make an installable app, still playing with that.

Tag me in pls ... 3 is better than 2.

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[Q] Question regarding watch face creation (dynamic watch face background)

Hey, <insert request that you ignore the fact that I have no clue what I'm doing/am a noob here> I was wondering if it's possible to create a watch face background that changes based on the card being previewed, similarly to the "simple" watch face that came as a watch face for the moto 360. If it is possible, are there any guides, resources, etc. that you guys could point me towards, or if someone has recreated that face or a similar one and the code is available that would be fantastic.
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Note: while I really appreciate any and all help, I'm relatively inexperienced with programming, and entirely new to programming for android, so explanations will likely confuse me; developer resources or tutorials, or even better, sample code, would probably be a lot more helpful, so I can jump in and start changing things, or dig through the syntax and stuff as some sort of context for the code I'm looking at (I'm more experienced with graphic design and have just started to get into programming outside of basic stuff with C#, VB.net, and python).
BioToxic737 said:
Hey, <insert request that you ignore the fact that I have no clue what I'm doing/am a noob here> I was wondering if it's possible to create a watch face background that changes based on the card being previewed, similarly to the "simple" watch face that came as a watch face for the moto 360. If it is possible, are there any guides, resources, etc. that you guys could point me towards, or if someone has recreated that face or a similar one and the code is available that would be fantastic.
Thank you all very much!
Note: while I really appreciate any and all help, I'm relatively inexperienced with programming, and entirely new to programming for android, so explanations will likely confuse me; developer resources or tutorials, or even better, sample code, would probably be a lot more helpful, so I can jump in and start changing things, or dig through the syntax and stuff as some sort of context for the code I'm looking at (I'm more experienced with graphic design and have just started to get into programming outside of basic stuff with C#, VB.net, and python).
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Hey BioToxic! Nice to meet you.
I am porting a friends Watch Face to Android. I can tell you that it is entirely possible, you can pretty much modify and manipulate the background to anything of like. I've been working in the Watch Face environment for a few weeks now and have a good solid understanding of how it works (previous knowledge helped, of course)
There is a lot of Java coding involved, if you are not familiar with that or familiar with how Android works it might be tough, you'll be writing code and not understand how it works.
A good starting point would be looking at the classes available in the WatchFace API.
[developer.android.com/reference/android/support/wearable/watchface/package-summary.html
Another good starting point would be getting your feet wet with the emulator, or better yet an actual device. Play around with the sample modules available.

Android Watch vs Android wear

May be its a silly question but surprisingly there is not a single article on the web about this!?
Well, Apart from the BASIC difference between them, which is, one is android os and another is android wear os, what are the pros and cons? What more? please help?
I understand -
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2. Watchface limitations and watchface functionality limitation. Android wear watchfaces can be touched to change various feature depending on watch face which so far no Android watchfaces can do.
what else?

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Hey everyone,
I'm fairly new to the world of smartwatches, but I am doing some work where I'd like to be able to send some information 'covertly' to a smartwatch.
I assumed I might be able to just pick up a cheap smartwatch and install an APK of my own making on it as an app, relaying information from a connected phone or similar - however it would seem the majority of the cheaper brand smartwatches are just set up with a suite of applications and you can't change them.
I then realised that I don't even need the normal 'features' of a smartwatch - I only want to run the one android 'app'. I thought maybe there might be a way of putting some custom firmware on a device that would let me do something like this, which led me to your forums - but I'm a bit lost looking through in honesty.
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Hi,
Is there such a thing as a Wear OS implementation SDK? Like the emulator, but without the presentation/display layer?
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