From guide:
Android apps
Android apps run on Android devices including phones and tablets.
Any experience to share about apps on Android watch? Any kind of information is useful
Many thanks
I have been writing an app(s) for smart watch using Xojo for the past year or more. I can compile and run/debug on the watch which runs wearOS. Learning to only use a portion of the screen as the watch is round and the IDE uses tablet or phone windows takes a little getting used to and it is not WYSIWYG. It is much better to actually debug on the actual device rather than using a simulator. Constantly having to run, stop, change code and run again takes a very long time(painfully slow vs Android studio which is almost instant). Having a partially working debugger doesnt help either - works sometimes but many flaws. Not very productive at times. You must make sure that the watch is connected using ADB on the development machine. So you need to use one or two terminal commands sometimes if the device loses connection on the development machine. USB connection is the best but sometimes you can use a wifi connection to the watch fine. The other big issue is from the wearOS itself and that it likes to quickly put applications in the background to conserve energy. The application I am writing really needs fulltime processing and network connections so still trying to work around this. It is quite amazing how easy it is to write an application that runs on a wearable!! I know this sounds negative but it is quite fun!!! Also no database classes other than local sqlite can be used so if using database operations you must make calls to middleware software running on a remote machine.
Best of luck to you. I currently am using TicWatch Pro5 as I was able to get this relatively cheap($125 canadian vs $300-700 for other major brands.
Alan LeRoy
Many many thanks, this is exactly the kind of information I was lookin for
If I understand correctly, the watch you are using has a 466*466 resolution and allows you to use the entire grid, but you only see the inner circular area on the display because the corners are “cut off.”
I found TicWatch Pro5 for about 100 euros, so I might give it a try, even though my initial plan was to use a slightly larger screen for better readability
My tablet app is already functional, but I need to adapt it for wearables. I know that simply recompiling it isn’t enough; I have to modify the user interface and potentially remove some features. I need a display, touch controls (click and scroll) and a direct Wi-Fi connection (no phone bridge) to exchange data with api; nfc is optional but desirable.
Fabio Soggia