I actually really like the way the OE logo looks on the Fossil Sport watch!
Build Infra: Win7 - Android Studio
My first attempt at wearOS before I get into it was to create a new watch face with the OvertimeEntertainment logo.
Epic fail right off the bat.
Project Reference:
Android Developers - Create Watchface
First Issue- Gradle. I was getting gradle warnings on the SDK version
"The following packages are not available: - Package id platforms;android-25".
The Fix: In Android Studio click
File/Project Structure
Set the Android NDK location to the one that matches the correct location. I was able to determine this by opening a cmd window and typing
Set to see your OS set variables.
In the list, you should see an
NDK_ROOT variable. Enter this path into Android Studio.
Adding the SDK for 25.
All this required was to add the SDK by opening SDK Manager from the start menu.
You must run as administrator else you will get an error that it cannot create a temp directory.
It turns out that I also had to add a few SDK's, APK's to get it to work. For some reason, even the ones I did add as devices were removed.
I just added them back again in SDK manager.
It doesn't stop there.
Trying to deploy to the watch in debug...
Next I am getting duplication errors in gradle. I had to add an exclude for support tools or something to that effect.
This is more than coding, it is a google search bonanza.
Luckily, it looks like billions of other people run into the same issues...
I did a test with the face, background and hands modules successfully.
I added the OE logo on the Hands module and now I have a watch face of the OE logo.
This took clicking on the Plus sign at the top right corner and adding the preview and logo images as drawable items.
I am a bit scared to push it directly to the watch, so I may just go the google playstore route so that I know it works correctly from playstore.
So I could not output to the apk.. it failed with more gradl crap. So I updated gradle, which in turn failed with more crap, so I updated the NPK.
In the old days of the few android apps I have written, it has become an immense pain now to do the most simplest stuff.
I just seems to continuously change and each breaks something else.
I guess i am just used to c#, .net where you spend more time coding than fixing and configuring... spoiled, I know.
Maybe some day I can get a simple watch face on my Fossil, but for now I am not holding my breath.
It did however work on the APK.. well that is before I tried to publish it and everything broke. Yes, I did make a backup. :)
That was the problem, I had to use the min version and compile version 28.
I was able to push the Faces module to the Fossil Sport.
I guess now it is time to create some more watch faces. I am thinking a mix of my artwork, pics and possibly some cool 3D designs.
Time to open Blender again.
I set the pic at 500x500 in png format.
