SWApp Link:: The Best Companion App for your Gear

Available on Google Play Store
It's an android app, will need Null Rom on the Gear

Available on Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.preiss.swapps.link

Beta version with more features:
https://plus.google.com/+CyrilPreiss0/posts/YrNDXdk2GLf

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. (disabled)

 SMS - Sends and intercepts SMSs to communicate between the devices.

XDA:DevDB Information
SWApp Link Companion App, App for the Samsung Galaxy Gear

Contributors
cyrilp

Version Information
Status: Beta
Current Beta Version: 0.934
Beta Release Date: 2014-04-23

Created 2014-04-23
Last Updated 2016-01-14

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h00rj said:

This could be useful for non-touchwiz phones, I suppose.

I may give it a go just to see what it can actually do.

--wait... "need internet connection on the watch" For serious?

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this is for using without BT connection (for smartwatches that don't have bluetooth), it's not needed for direct bt connection.

Lokifish Marz said:

The internet connection "requirement" is for those smartwatches that do not have working BT, like every one of the Umeox x201 based smartwatches. The internet connection is also for doing things over long distances (think miles).

It does more than just notifications. I'm running Null and have been placing calls and sending texts using the Gear and leaving my Nexus One in my pocket, or the other room, the whole time.

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you need to select BT on both the watch and the phone, then it will connect

i have uploaded the apk in download section as Gear might have difficulties getting it from playstore

Lokifish Marz said:

The internet connection "requirement" is for those smartwatches that do not have working BT, like every one of the Umeox x201 based smartwatches. The internet connection is also for doing things over long distances (think miles).

It does more than just notifications. I'm running Null and have been placing calls and sending texts using the Gear and leaving my Nexus One in my pocket, or the other room, the whole time.

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Do you have the conncetion choice in your settings on the watch ? it's strange lazer9 is saying it's not there ?

lazer9 said:

Hold the phone! Literally , lol. I just uninstalled from gear and re-installed from the one you posted here in downloads and now I have the connection settings on gear. Now to re-install on phone side and go from there. :victory:

Update: Blah, now when I either set bluetooth on Gear or Phone, I get a force close on each device.

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i have uploaded a new version, could you try it ?

lazer9 said:

WORKS! Finally able to connect to gear & phone and did a test by pressing battery icon on gear and it showed my Phone's battery level!

Super! Now to figure out what all I can do with this nifty app :highfive:

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Great !

*SWApp Link dev update 0.934d*

*BT Virtual Leash*

You watch will help you not to loose or forget your phone !!

New feature will allow to get notified if the bluetooth link is broken.
User selected delay to trigger the alert.

*SWApp Link dev update 0.934e*

*Auto Lock*

In virtual leash feature, you can now enable "Auto Lock" feature which will set a password on your phone if the link is broken.

It's a low level action on the phone, so you'll be asked to enable Admin rights to the app.

You will be able to enable or not the broken virtual leash notification.