Prompting the installation for your Wear OS companion app from your Android app

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The following function is a example on how to use a RemoteActivityHelper to trigger connected Wear OS devices to open the Play Store at a desired package. This allows both the app author to increase exposure to their companion app but also allow the user to more easily access the companion applications.

WeDroid a Python 3 based weather assistant

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Introducing WeDroid a Python based weather assistant. Originally a weather reporting script that returned the current weather status in a short message form. It was written right after the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s release (9 years ago) and was heavily influenced by the iDroid weather reports that Venom Snake would receive in-game.…

Tasker – Automation examples with the Flipper Zero

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This post continues from our last entry on how to utilise Intents within Tasker for Android and builds on those examples to demonstrate how to automate functionality on the Flipper Zero. The examples featured on this page will demonstrate functions such as: the ability to automatically connect to the Flipper Zero, to trigger the playback…

Disabling Digital Wellbeing on Android 13

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The Digital wellbeing application from Google is baked in to Google derived Android 13 devices. If you don’t like the idea of your device usage data being even more closely monitored and disguised as being good for you this brief article will show you how to remove it without root.

Transcribable for Android available now for early access

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We have recently released an early access speech to text application titled Transcribable; it supports the ability capture voice notes as text and share your transcriptions with other applications. Transcribable supports the conversion of speech to text using your Android device or Wear OS device. The device application collates your transcriptions to a file allowing…

Wear OS: Custom Ringtones using ADB

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I’m really enjoying my TicWatch Pro 2020 Wear OS device; my only criticism which I noticed almost immediately was; that I am unable to easily provide a custom ringtone. By easily I mean there is no built-in method to define a custom ringtone.