Category Archives: Android

Found that using Settings on phone to remove a watch face app did not remove the watch face from the Android Wear app or from the wearable. This method worked. Connect phone and wearable to Android Studio as if you … Continue reading →

I had a layout with an AppBarLayout and toolbar that overlapped the first item on the ListView below it.  It appears to have been fixed by adding this line app:layout_behavior=”@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior” But the problem was where to add it. The answer … Continue reading →

A simple way to display date-time using xml. <android.widget.TextClock android:id=”@+id/time” android:layout_width=”wrap_content” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:timeZone=”GMT+0000″ <!–Greenwich –> android:format24Hour=”k:mm” android:format12Hour=”@null” android:textAppearance=”?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium” android:layout_centerVertical=”true” android:layout_centerHorizontal=”true” /> Omit the timeZone to pick up local settings from phone.

Added a colour wheel-style colour picker in the following way. Documentation here and code here. Copyright 2012 Lars Werkman Created new activity and layout, into Build, Edit libraries and dependencies and added com.larswerkman.holocolorpicker as a library dependency. In the layout … Continue reading →

The steps for me for Wear 1.x (for which wear module must be inside handheld module) were the following. Ensure both handheld and wearable modules had same permissions and package names in their manifest files. Ensure both modules had the … Continue reading →

I found that this stackoverflow post had some correct and some slightly misleading comments. The following worked for me. In Android Studio select Build, Generate signed APK and navigate to the release key previously used in Eclipse. Enter your keystore … Continue reading →

To create assets folder in Android Studio, right click on module and select New, Folder, Assets folder.

Copied in some code that had code such as: if (Log.isLoggable(TAG, Log.DEBUG)) { Log.d(TAG, “onConnected: ” + connectionHint); } and I couldn’t find any logs in logcat. If I remove the if statement then log commands appear. Solution was to … Continue reading →

To run virtual device for emulation of wearable app need to install Intel x86 emulator Accelerator. I read that the recommended method is to use the SDK. Ran the SDK manager from Android Studio, found the option under SDK Tools … Continue reading →