[Apps] for the Sony Smartwatch MN2

[beowulf6]

hi.

the google maps app in the google play store was more of a small experiment for me how everything works and how a app is accepted.

I thought the app was pretty stable because i had no problem with it at all. Still many have problems with it and i am still figuring them out and try to fix them.

I just released a new version which will hopefully fix most problems.(i would like if it could be tested) But it is hard to test for me.
For example it worked on the emulator and i have only my galaxy note for testing on a real device where it worked too.


the whatsapp application is even more build on experiments with the android notification system because of the bad documantation on this. I am not really sure if this will be a good additional app in the store.

I will surely release the other apps soon in the store when i polished them as good as i can.

I will see if i can find the bug. but i highly doubt that the button is breaking it even when you do not press it.

If you want i could clean up the source code a bit and you can experiment with it and maybe release it in the play store. (just a suggestion.) or i release the source code here for everyone.

 

[kwtmoon]

Thx for your great job..

I'm just waiting my new sony Smartwatch.. Its on the way

I will test all your app asap and give you nice feedback

Love your whatsapp app work... Cheer

 

[cruzzmz]

hi.

the google maps app in the google play store was more of a small experiment for me how everything works and how a app is accepted.

I thought the app was pretty stable because i had no problem with it at all. Still many have problems with it and i am still figuring them out and try to fix them.

I just released a new version which will hopefully fix most problems.(i would like if it could be tested) But it is hard to test for me.
For example it worked on the emulator and i have only my galaxy note for testing on a real device where it worked too.


the whatsapp application is even more build on experiments with the android notification system because of the bad documantation on this. I am not really sure if this will be a good additional app in the store.

I will surely release the other apps soon in the store when i polished them as good as i can.

I will see if i can find the bug. but i highly doubt that the button is breaking it even when you do not press it.

If you want i could clean up the source code a bit and you can experiment with it and maybe release it in the play store. (just a suggestion.) or i release the source code here for everyone.

Hi
the whatsapp app is working fine in my SGS2 on ICS and as long as i dont press the "open in phone" button it will always work

i think u can publish it soon

good job

 

[Wop2k]

Hi beowulf,

The app is not working on my device. It starts with a white screen and even does not start the GPS on the phone any more.

It is a SGS2 with 2.3.5

 

[fourthw]

Beowulf

Great GPS map app, i have the galaxy nexus and 4.0.2 and it now is perfect, the arrow, the size, the zoom in and out, thank you so much, wonderful work. I wish your email app would work for me so i could read the subject of the body also

 

[gtdRR]

First of all thank you beowulf6!

I am gladly testing out your apps and wanted to post a reply to first say thanks and second to report my findings.

For "Google Maps for Smartwatch" v1.0.4 from the Play Store. I am stuck on the white screen but I do see that the GPS is turning on. I saw your post about it taking a while to load, so I left it on for 10 minutes but it still only displayed the white screen.

For the CalendarEvents app, I only get a black screen and then the Force Close pop up will be displayed on the phone.

For the GPS Map, it works just fine!

I am using a Samsung Captivate Glide running 2.3.5. Sony LiveWare Manager v2.3.8 and firmware on the SmartWatch is 0.0.A.8.2


Thanks again and keep up the great work!

 

[beowulf6]

Hi.

yes. 10 minutes is definetly too long. it should load at least after some seconds.

Can you please try the following url on the default android browser on your phone and tell me what you see?
http://code-i.de/staticmaplite/gmaps.php?lat=30&lon=31
(the google maps app is more or less just the android browser that communicates with the app and sends the picture of the browser to the smartwatch)

Yes sorry. The Calendar App only supports Android 4.0 and up because the calendar resolver changed at this version. Sorry that i have forgot to mention that in the first post. will change that.
Will look if i can support older versions there has changed a lot with the calendar.

I also updated the mail notifier and uploaded it to the play store.
It can now also get the complete e-mail from the google mail imap server and maybe some others that work the same way.
I removed the error notifications that where send to the smartwatch so you do not get notified when you lose connection or disable the network connection yourself. For testing i added a "Test connection" button in the settings menu where you can try the current settings and see a more detailed error message.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.bytewiese.liveware.extension.imapnotification

 

[kwtmoon]

Hi.

yes. 10 minutes is definetly too long. it should load at least after some seconds.

Can you please try the following url on the default android browser on your phone and tell me what you see?
http://code-i.de/staticmaplite/gmaps.php?lat=30&lon=31
(the google maps app is more or less just the android browser that communicates with the app and sends the picture of the browser to the smartwatch)

Yes sorry. The Calendar App only supports Android 4.0 and up because the calendar resolver changed at this version. Sorry that i have forgot to mention that in the first post. will change that.
Will look if i can support older versions there has changed a lot with the calendar.

I also updated the mail notifier and uploaded it to the play store.
It can now also get the complete e-mail from the google mail imap server and maybe some others that work the same way.
I removed the error notifications that where send to the smartwatch so you do not get notified when you lose connection or disable the network connection yourself. For testing i added a "Test connection" button in the settings menu where you can try the current settings and see a more detailed error message.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.bytewiese.liveware.extension.imapnotification

beowulf6 plz tel us whats the new in whatsapp notifier app plz?

Still waiting my Smartwatch... Cant wait to test your job

 

[Tippfehler]

beowulf6

The new Mailnotification is working nearly perfect on my phone. (imap.strato.de)
(10 mails)
But after clearing of all events and pressing "Test connection",
I see:

java.lang.
IndexOutOfBoundException

and the app closes or is going in background.

After a few connection tests, I have the
Everything seems to work again - message back,
but the app does not show new mails.

 

[jamo]

Hi .

i have the same problem of white screen with the gps app.

I tried to load the web page you gave us on the browser and before he shows me the maps , he ask me to acept some condictions.
Even , i have different browser and when i surf it ask me always witch browser i want to open the page.
Maybe this thinks are the problem !
Hi and excuse my bad english

 

[fourthw]

Both GPS map and mail notification now work perfect, thank you

Much appreciated, I also left a note on googleplay, but are you able to make the mail notification instantaneous like the app on googleplay called Gmail Notifier? that one notifies upon the phone receiving an email. No problem if not possible, since the two apps you have created are must have apps for the smartwatch.

finally, on your calendar events app, the text is too large on my smartwatch so i cannot see the day of the event and sometimes the whole text of the event, can you make it smaller font on the widget? thank you

Hi.

yes. 10 minutes is definetly too long. it should load at least after some seconds.

Can you please try the following url on the default android browser on your phone and tell me what you see?
http://code-i.de/staticmaplite/gmaps.php?lat=30&lon=31
(the google maps app is more or less just the android browser that communicates with the app and sends the picture of the browser to the smartwatch)

Yes sorry. The Calendar App only supports Android 4.0 and up because the calendar resolver changed at this version. Sorry that i have forgot to mention that in the first post. will change that.
Will look if i can support older versions there has changed a lot with the calendar.

I also updated the mail notifier and uploaded it to the play store.
It can now also get the complete e-mail from the google mail imap server and maybe some others that work the same way.
I removed the error notifications that where send to the smartwatch so you do not get notified when you lose connection or disable the network connection yourself. For testing i added a "Test connection" button in the settings menu where you can try the current settings and see a more detailed error message.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.bytewiese.liveware.extension.imapnotification

 

[beowulf6]

Hi and thanks for testing.

I already thought about the permission asking but i already removed it in the newest version so it should not be the problem.

But it might be possible that even the view in the app is trying to ask to open with a different browser so i have overwritten the Urlloading.

Can you please try this version:
http://bytewiese.de/fileadmin/_media/dl/smartwatch/SmartwatchMap12.apk
and tell me if this fixes the white screen issue?

That would be nice.

Thanks


@Tippfehler:
do you really have only 10 mails in the mail folder?
Do the notified mails get marked as read on your Server? (they should not)

there might be a problem when you have less than 10 mails on the server.
Must look at this.

If it still does not again notifies you about new mails you can go to the app settings in the android system settings and clear the data for the "Mail Notification" app. You will need to enter the server settings again though.

 

[gtdRR]

Hi and thanks for testing.

I already thought about the permission asking but i already removed it in the newest version so it should not be the problem.

But it might be possible that even the view in the app is trying to ask to open with a different browser so i have overwritten the Urlloading.

Can you please try this version:
http://bytewiese.de/fileadmin/_media/dl/smartwatch/SmartwatchMap12.apk
and tell me if this fixes the white screen issue?

That would be nice.

Thanks

Loading the webpage I receive the "share location" option and the map does load with my location. I never received the which broweser pop-up like the other user. As for the new version, I am still getting the white screen.

Thanks

 

[Tippfehler]

@ beowulf6
I have only the last 15 - 20 mails on the server, because I use POP and can not change to IMAP. I thought, it doesn´t matter, if they are marked as read or not.
I have tried, to clear the app data in the android apps section without luck.

O.T.
Only the newest mails are interesting for me on the phone and on the smartwatch. (If read -> delete. If I need it a second time, I can use a different mail program and receive the mails again or can open the strato webmail or go to the main-pc with all the millions of archieved mails of the last years. The pc is only receiving mails, if a wlan-ping to my phone is positive. In that case, the stato server is mostly empty and my mobile phone mail program too. I like it when it is clear.)
Unfortunately the app does not support POP, but for the last mails, I thought, I can use imap too.
After receiving and deleting all mails from the pop3.strato.de, the imap.strato.de should also be empty.
Please excuse my bad english.

 

[jamo]

I tried the new version but always white screen.
Ps the gps doesn t turn on alone

 

[beowulf6]

hi. i experimented a bit.
The problem is. i can not reproduce the problem on my device or in different android emulator versions. So i have not really any idea why.

I have build a quick new version that waits to render the webview until it is fully loaded. While it loads it shows a loading screen.

http://bytewiese.de/fileadmin/_media/dl/smartwatch/SmartwatchMap13.apk

Please tell me if it stays at the loading screen or if you still get a white screen after the loading screen. That way at least i know if it is just a rendering issue or some problem while loading.


@jamo Android does not allow apps to enable or disable GPS completely. So you need to enable it on your phone. Android will manage it so even when you have it on enabled it will disable the gps chip when no app is asking for GPS data.

This is because of Android Security so no way to do it. There are hacks for old android versions because of a security hole, but i will not use them.
You can see if android is using GPS when the GPS icon is in the taskbar.

@Tippfehler: Try this version:
http://bytewiese.de/fileadmin/_media/dl/smartwatch/smartwatchmailnotifier12.apk
it should work better when there are less e-mails.

 

[Tippfehler]

Thanks, but the link is not o.k.

 

[beowulf6]

whoops. Sorry. that happens when you copy and paste. fixed the link.

 

[gtdRR]

hi. i experimented a bit.
The problem is. i can not reproduce the problem on my device or in different android emulator versions. So i have not really any idea why.

I have build a quick new version that waits to render the webview until it is fully loaded. While it loads it shows a loading screen.

http://bytewiese.de/fileadmin/_media/dl/smartwatch/SmartwatchMap13.apk

Please tell me if it stays at the loading screen or if you still get a white screen after the loading screen. That way at least i know if it is just a rendering issue or some problem while loading.

With the new apk. I click the app icon, GPS turns on right away on the phone, watch shows the loading screen for a couple seconds but then just shows a black screen. It will stay on that black screen and keep the display active on the watch. Doesn't crash or let the screen timeout either but still no map displayed.

Thanks for the continued work.

 

[beowulf6]

thank you so much for your testing.

Ok. that means it does actually show the view and the onfinishedloading is called.

So here is my last try for now. need a bit sleep.

http://bytewiese.de/fileadmin/_media/dl/smartwatch/SmartwatchMap14.apk


But at least i think i can narrow the problem more and more.
So thanks again.