Custom Watch face for Android Wear

This is an example project that shows you how to implement a custom watch face. The main project codes lies in the wear module. You can install it directly to the wearable device via USB. The big secret how to create a custom watch face lies in a special intent filter described by the next section:

Modifying the AndroidManifest.xml

<activity
    android:theme="@android:style/Theme.DeviceDefault.NoActionBar"
    android:name=".NineWatchWearActivity"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:allowEmbedded="true"
    >
    <!-- Preview for when the user goes to change watchfaces -->
    <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.clockwork.home.preview" android:resource="@drawable/preview" />
    <!-- Intent filter to make the activity show up in the watchface choices -->
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="com.google.android.clockwork.home.category.HOME_BACKGROUND" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>
<meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />

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TODO

Using WatchViewStub to differentiate between a square or round wearable.
Finding out why the dim removes the views when the debug cable is connected.
Checking why the battery is drained so fast.

ENVIRONMENT

This example has been created with AndroidStudio 0.8.1 - it has also been tested on the Samsung Gear Live.

CREDITS

Most of the code was found in a reddit thread. Thanks to the authors:

http://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/297r7m/watch_face_development_on_android_wear/

the design of the clock is inspired by this article:

http://java-articles.info/articles/?p=555

License

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