Android Wear and iOS connectivity

[johnnyle7]

Hi,

Within your method, does notification cards show in ambient mode? I used to follow the instruction from another guy but I cannot make the notification work properly. (refer http://xdaforums.com/android-wear/development/getting-watchmaker-watch-android-wear-t3262448).

Thanks.

you are using moto 360? I used the method on the other link and it is working great on my Urbane. no problem at all.

 

[quantan]

you are using moto 360? I used the method on the other link and it is working great on my Urbane. no problem at all.

I'm using Huawei watch. Yeah I can install and use faces from Watchmaker but I don't get any notification cards in ambient mode. Would you please share which face you're using? I doubt it is face issues. Thanks!

 

[johnnyle7]

I'm using Huawei watch. Yeah I can install and use faces from Watchmaker but I don't get any notification cards in ambient mode. Would you please share which face you're using? I doubt it is face issues. Thanks!

which one are u using? I have been using many faces from facerepo and have no problem so far.

 

[quantan]

which one are u using? I have been using many faces from facerepo and have no problem so far.

I have used faces from WatchMaker Google + community. I'm not sure why I cannot get notification cards.

 

[crash447]

Brand new to Aerlink...used quite a few Wear watches and iOS a lot, but this is my first time using it together. I love being able to block certain apps sending notifications to wear. Some notifications I only like to receive on my phone. Is there a way on Aerlink to block certain apps from sending notifications to the watch?

 

[zard]

Brand new to Aerlink...used quite a few Wear watches and iOS a lot, but this is my first time using it together. I love being able to block certain apps sending notifications to wear. Some notifications I only like to receive on my phone. Is there a way on Aerlink to block certain apps from sending notifications to the watch?

I don't think so.

 

[benf0277]

Hello,
Just wondering which Android VM you used. I tried VirtualBox but it would not work correctly, which VM did you use?

Hi everyone,

I've been following this thread for a while now and I finally bit the bullet yesterday and went out and got myself a Moto 360 (with a silver metal link chain which is cheap-ish now 149$ US without taxes )

Anyways, I thought I might post my experience here.

Disclaimer!!: I am just a user and not a developer and so will not be able to answer super complex questions. This is a run down of how I got the Moto 360 and my iPhone 6 plus to (kinda) work with each other. (So, its not written like a tutorial rather an experience) Also, I may digress a lot during the course of writing this so please bear with me!

Background:
iPhone 6 plus - running iOS 9.0 Public Beta 3 (this made this more complicated - more details below)
Moto 360 - now updated to version 5.1.1
Android Device for initial setup - Android X86 (guest) running on VMware VirtualBox on Windows 10 (host) (its a pain to get this working and took me the longest time to sort out especially since I was using the inbuilt Intel Bluetooth and VMware refused to recognize it- drove me so if you have some sort of access to an Android Device I would highly recommend you use that)
Apps installed:

Android side:
Android Wear
Aerlink

iPhone side:
Aerlink
(I did not use BLE utility at all - since the BLE utility app crashes on iOS 9 Public Beta)

Steps:
1. Unboxed the Moto 360 and charged it to a 100%. This step required patience - the pairing will work for those who wait. This is important because each software update requires the Moto to have at least 80% battery power.
2. Installed the Android Wear app on my android VM in the meanwhile.
3. Once my 360 was charged, I paired and connected it to my android VM using the Android Wear app phone-side.
4. Now I played around with the watch till firmware updates downloaded to the watch. To see its progress one can go to Settings - About - System Updates and here see the progress of the download.
5. The update process for me had to run two times - I'm assuming my Moto 360 was pretty outdated and needed multiple iterations of firmware updates.
6. After each time of the update installing, the device restarts and 'optimizes' updates so this process can take up to 20 mins for the both of them together.
7. After all the updates are installed I verified if the Android version installed is 5.1.1 on the Moto 360
8. Next I installed Aerlink from the play store onto the Android and also Aerlink from the AppStore onto my iPhone (this step requires purchase on the iPhone side, I had no other option since BLE utility doesn't work for me and I wanted to support the developer anyways, it only costs 2$ - less than a Grande from Starbucks).
9. Once both those steps are done, the watch (if it has been updated to the right version) should have the aerlink app on it. I opened up this app and turned on iOS notifications. You can also turn on the battery info if you need it.
10. I opened up the Aerlink app on the iPhone side and then waited. A pairing request popped up on my Moto 360 . Punched in the numbers and done!
11. I then shut down the android VM, and my iPhone remained paired with my Moto 360. The iPhone shows up as Aerlink on the Moto 360 and not necessarily 'iPhone' or 'Tubby's iPhone' or whatever the iPhone's bluetooth name is.

I paired it last night at around 10 pm or so and its connected and I'm receiving notifications as of now which is around 8:30 AM here, so no dropped connections that I noticed.

Again this is just the steps that worked for me and not necessarily a tutorial. Just thought if anyone was stupid like me to install the iOS 9 public beta and BLE utility didn't work for them anymore, this would give them some hope!

Kudos and Best of Luck to those who try it out!

 

[njxbean]

I've tried dozens of times your steps. If I try to install the original watchmaker apk file, it works. When I try to replace the folders / files and after having signed the file, I have the following error : INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_APK. Any idea why ?

DId anyone ever find a resolution to this? I am using the instructions in this post

When i try to upload i receive the same error. Any ideas? If i try to install the entire apk it works fine. however, when i try to install the micro apk that i have altered no dice.

I will also note that there was no preview folder under assets, i had to add it. Any ideas? ALso note i am trying to upload on a Huawei 2245.

 

[Dieselbuck]

Yesterday, I've successfully installed Facer and about 40 watch faces on my LG Urbane paired to an iPhone.

I've made a tutorial with detailed steps so others may try it and enjoy their Android watches. My knowledge of the Android system is limited so there may be some obvious shortcuts to my solution. Some steps are a little vague because finding details on Google about them is easy. This has been done an a Windows 10 x64 system and repeated successfully on another Windows 10 x64 system. Not tested on another version.


1 - Enable debugging on your Android Wear device


2 - Install 15 Seconds ADB Installer:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48915118#post48915118
Note: you may have to disable your antivirus as this application may be tagged as a false positive


3 - Connect your device with a USB cable (either directly or with the charger) and wait for plug n play to detect it

4 - Open an admin command prompt window and type:
adb usb
You should see "Restarting in USB mode". If not wait a little and try again. If your device is still not detected, you may have to install more specific USB drivers.

5 - On your device, give the "always" authorisation for the connection

6 - Type:
adb devices
and you should see 1 device attached

7 - At the command prompt, type:
cd %userprofile%\Desktop
md facer
cd facer

8 - Now, you will need to put the latest Facer APK into the facer folder we've just created on the desktop. Note: Since I already had the paid version Facer on my Android device, I used a little Android app called "Apk Extractor" to regenerate the Apk file from the installed app. An older Facer version will work but some watch faces will have bugs (I tried first on the 1.6 version and it worked but some newer faces weren't perfect)

9 - Back to the command prompt to rename the Facer APK so it will be extractable:
ren *.apk facerapk.zip

10 - You should now have a facerapk.zip archive into the facer folder. Right-click on it and select "Extract all" to unpack the archive to a folder of the same name.

11 - Now, let's get the watch app to the current folder and rename it so it will be easier to work with it:
copy facerapk\res\raw\*.apk
ren *.apk facermicro.apk

12 - Facer can now be installed on the watch:
adb install facermicro.apk

13 - Make a folder for the additionnal faces:
md faces

14 - Go to FaceRepo and download your faces into the "faces" folder. They will have a .face extension

15 - We need to change the file extension to zip:
ren faces\*.face *.zip

16 - Now, right-click on each file and extract it to its default folder using the "Extract all" option. You can use WinRAR (if you have it installed) to select them all and extract them to separate folders. A free version of WinRAR can be easily installed from www.ninite.com.

17 - Back to the command-line to remove the zip files and transfer the faces to the watch. Type:
del faces\*.zip
adb push faces/. /sdcard/Facer


You're done! If everything is OK, you can select the Facer watch face and select your face by tapping on the gear icon of Facer on the watch.


If you ever need to remove Facer and start from scratch do this:
adb uninstall com.jeremysteckling.facerrel
adb shell rm -r /sdcard/Facer
The Facer folder on the watch must also be removed since uninstalling the app leaves it behind with the custom watchfaces.

If you want to reinstall Facer, restart from step 12 with a command prompt from within the Facer folder.

You can add more faces by repeating steps 14-17 with different faces files.

Hi, thank you for this tutorial, everything is going well except the last step, unable to copy files to sdcard as described in:
17 - Back to the command-line to remove the zip files and transfer the faces to the watch. Type:
adb push faces/. /sdcard/Facer

Any help please? I am using Huawei watch
thank you in advance

 

[215HAn]

I did exactly the above but get the below error message:

1774 KB/s (6033122 bytes in 3.319s)
pkg: /data/local/tmp/watchmaker.android_wear_micro_apk.apk
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_APK]

Can anyone assist as to why or what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

 

[ninjazx6]

I have Lg urbane 2 lte second edition and iphone 7 plus 128gb . I have install android wear app for connection with the watch in the iphone and i dont have the options for bluetooth and wifi in the watch. Also i dont have notification to answer the call on my watch when someones calls me on the iphone. I want to connect bluetooth headset on the watch and i can . Is there any solution on that problems ? I see the wifi settings on the watch with this command on adb : adb shell am start -n com.google.android.apps.wearable.settings/com.google.android.clockwork.settings.wifi.WifiSettingsActivity
is there any similar command to see the bluetooth settings ?

Problems
1. No wifi and bluetooth settings on the watch
2.No notification for incoming calls on the watch
3. Temporary solution or a fix for all that ?

thanks for your answer

 

[androidslide]

WatchMaker for iOS out now!

 

[johneisenheim]

Hi guys! Is there still no way to answer to whatsapp messages through the smartwatch (Moto 360 2nd gen + Android Wear 2.0 + iOS 10.2.1)?

 

[Gentatsu]

Mine was horrible until the past week or so. It wouldn't keep connected at all, and I have to factory reset it often to get it to connect again at all. Now, it seems mostly ok. The wifi connectivity is still shoddy, though. Connecting adb through bluetooth also does not work.

 

[zxtraul]

Will test soon!

I’ll soon test it on my Fossil Gen4 Q Explorist smartwatch! ?

 

[Hemant]

I’ll soon test it on my Fossil Gen4 Q Explorist smartwatch!

Please post what you do since this thread is quite old and not sure what we are supposed test or check

 

[Dankees]

So, I am trying to get Verizon Messages onto my watch.

It's no longer in the Play Store on my watch.

I found a way to sideload it.

I was able to connect my computer to my watch via ADB.

When it came time to transfer the file to my watch, the commands entered didn't result in anything. Nothing happened.

Obviously, something is wrong - but, what?

Help!

 

[janndan]

For anyone who's interested - we just launched a new app to connect Wear OS devices (like Samsung Galaxy 4+ and Google Pixel watch) to iOS. See more details at:

Launch post in XDA:
https://xdaforums.com/t/app-wear-os-merge-connecting-wear-os-to-ios.4616337/

Website:
https://www.merge.watch