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Getting Facer onto your Android Wear watch with iOS

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By wkevinw, Member on 26th January 2016, 04:31 AM
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OK - it seems that it is fairly easy to load Facer and all the Facer faces that you have onto your Watch. I won't go into much detail here - you can search other threads on this site or others for details on how to do this (many of the steps can be found in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/andr...-wear-t3262448). But the basic idea is to load the wearable .apk file extracted from the Facer app on the Android host (the device which you run Facer and create/load/modify your watch faces) onto the watch, and then copy the key watch folders to the watch as well. You will need the Android SDK tools to do this, along with a USB connection to the watch (most watches except the original Moto 360 come with one - the charging cable, which also contains data lines). You can use two free tools from the Play Store to help with these tasks - ES File Manager and AirDroid.

The basic idea is to first create all the faces that you wish to use on either an Android device or Emulator (Android host).

After this, if you examine your Android host device, you will see two Facer folders in the /sdcard folder - Facer, and Facer2. You only need to use part of the Facer folder.

Steps:
1. Install Facer from the Play Store on the Android host device and develop your watches.
2. Install the wearable .apk (*adb install ...*) onto the watch.
3. Copy the /sdcard/Facer folder to your PC or Mac. Then remove everything except the long hex-string folders - these are the watch face folders.
4. Copy this modified Facer folder to the watch using *adb push ...*
5. Reboot the watch, then press the watch face (brings up the watch face selector), scroll until you find the Facer icon, press the settings
button and then select the Facer watch face that you want to use.

That should be it. If you examine the file structure on the watch after this, you will find a couple of new folders - none_selected and sync.
and a watchface_1.zip file.

As you add new watches, new hex-string folders will be created on the host Android device. Just transfer those folders to your PC or Mac and
then transfer them back to your watch.

Kevin
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27th January 2016, 02:32 PM |#2  
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Please can somebody upload wholeFacer directory from watch with few installed watchfaces ? i need to see how look folder structure with multiple load faces. Thanks a lot.
28th January 2016, 05:22 AM |#3  
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Please can somebody upload wholeFacer directory from watch with few installed watchfaces ? i need to see how look folder structure with multiple load faces. Thanks a lot.

Here are some directory structures from my Android host and watch. First, the host:

adb -e shell ls -al /sdcard/Facer
-rwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 0 2016-01-25 14:59 .nomedia
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 14:59 135d95fb-06cb-4a2a-832c-5fc45e9b9fb0
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 14:59 6b07b86c-ebda-49af-bb31-d9ec8a71da03
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 14:59 848a2270-9d55-4353-a62b-b153badcce69
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 14:59 9358cc22-8f49-411c-a725-607636a1b0ee
-rwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 331653 2016-01-25 14:59 Colorful.zip
-rwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 524582 2016-01-25 14:59 Digiloge.zip
-rwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 101885 2016-01-25 14:59 E3 Military.zip
-rwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 357285 2016-01-25 14:59 E3 Supply Co Aviator.zip
-rwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 94620 2016-01-25 14:59 Moto Dark.zip
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 14:59 b7c9deb0-e43d-4892-ae96-2b826681c2f4

I have 5 installed watch faces - the Moto Dark resides in the b7c9deb0... folder

adb -e shell ls -al /sdcard/Facer/b7c9deb0-e43d-4892-ae96-2b826681c2f4
-rwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 562 2016-01-25 16:21 description.json
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 14:59 fonts
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 14:59 images
-rwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 9342 2016-01-25 15:23 preview.png
-rwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 1874 2016-01-25 15:23 watchface.json
-rwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 238 2016-01-25 15:23 watchface_settings.json

Now, the watch:

adb -d shell ls -al /sdcard/Facer
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 15:25 135d95fb-06cb-4a2a-832c-5fc45e9b9fb0
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 15:25 6b07b86c-ebda-49af-bb31-d9ec8a71da03
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 15:25 848a2270-9d55-4353-a62b-b153badcce69
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 15:25 9358cc22-8f49-411c-a725-607636a1b0ee
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 15:25 b7c9deb0-e43d-4892-ae96-2b826681c2f4
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 14:40 none_selected
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 14:40 sync
-rw-rw---- root sdcard_r 652974 2016-01-25 14:40 watchface_1.zip

Note that I only copied the first 5 (hex) folders from the host to the watch; the rest was created by Facer after starting it on the watch.

And finally:

adb -d shell ls -al /sdcard/Facer/b7c9deb0-e43d-4892-ae96-2b826681c2f4
-rw-rw---- root sdcard_r 562 2016-01-27 22:01 description.json
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 15:25 fonts
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2016-01-25 15:25 images
-rw-rw---- root sdcard_r 9342 2016-01-25 15:25 preview.png
-rw-rw---- root sdcard_r 1874 2016-01-25 15:25 watchface.json
-rw-rw---- root sdcard_r 238 2016-01-25 15:25 watchface_settings.json

This appears to be exactly the same as on the host.

Hope this helps.

Kevin
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